Crossrail Engineering: 360° video of Canary Wharf Crossrail station

Описание: This interactive 360° video enables you to explore the newly completed Canary Wharf Crossrail station.

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Canary Wharf Group plc has completed construction of the Crossrail Canary Wharf station and handed over the ticket hall and platform levels to Crossrail Limited.

Crossrail will now start the complicated process of fitting out the station with all the systems needed to operate passenger services including communications equipment, signalling, tunnel ventilation, platform screen doors and overhead line equipment.

When TfL-run Crossrail opens in 2018, journey times to many destinations across London will be reduced. From Canary Wharf, it will take just 6 minutes to travel to Liverpool Street, 8 minutes to Farringdon and 39 minutes to Heathrow.

Construction of the Canary Wharf station box was undertaken by Canary Wharf Contractors Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canary Wharf Group plc. The Group contributed £150 million towards the costs of the new Crossrail station and delivered the station box for a fixed price of £500 million.

Situated in the North Dock of West India Quay, Canary Wharf is one of the largest Crossrail stations. The station, retail and park areas are six storeys high and at 256 metres long the development is slightly longer than the height of One Canada Square. The station development will provide a new link between Canary Wharf and Poplar, currently separated by the North Dock, and includes links to the Canary Wharf Estate, via Adams Place and the Jubilee line and DLR stations.

Canary Wharf is the most progressed of Crossrail’s 10 new stations. Eight 30-metre-long escalators, nine 11-metre-long escalators, six lifts, flooring, wall cladding and space for station services are all in place in the ticket hall level.

Canary Wharf Group has also delivered Crossrail Place, a four-storey retail development above the ticket hall and platform levels, which was opened on 1 May and includes more than 100,000 square feet of retail space. The whole development is topped by a roof garden which incorporates a community performance space and restaurant which is semi-covered by a striking Foster + Partners designed timber lattice roof.

Work began on the new station in May 2009 by creating a 250 x 30-metre watertight dam in the waters of North Dock using an innovative ‘silent’ piling method. The station box was then built ‘top-down,’ 28 metres below the water surface to create the ticket hall and platform levels.

Over six and a half years the construction team has driven almost 1,000 piles and pumped nearly 100 million litres of dock water. Approximately 300,000 tonnes of material were excavated from beneath the dock bed and almost 375,000 tonnes of concrete were poured.

Crossrail will increase London's rail-based transport network capacity by 10 per cent and cut journey times across the city, bringing an extra 1.5 million people within 45 minutes of central London.

For more information visit:
http://www.crossrail.co.uk

Video released in 2015