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SUMMARY:Crossrail - Moving London Forward - Patrick Griffin\, Crossrail
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CONTACT:Tim Wilkinson
DESCRIPTION:Crossrail will be a major new high frequency metro rail servic
 e that will connect East and West London from the City and Canary Wharf\, 
 via the West End\, to Heathrow Airport and commuter areas on either side o
 f the capital.  The network will offer faster\, easier and direct ways to 
 get into and across London.  New lines and tunnels will carry trains with 
 twice the number of passengers as the Central and Jubilee lines.  As a res
 ult\, existing rail and tube routes will be less crowded and everyone’s 
 journey will be more pleasant.  The new service will connect 37 stations a
 nd will operate 24 trains an hour in each direction in the central undergr
 ound section  at peak time. \nThe Crossrail Programme is currently the big
 gest engineering project in Europe with construction work taking place acr
 oss the whole route.   Eight tunnel boring machines\, TBMs\, have been dri
 ving their way under London since early 2012\, and when they have finished
  their boring task\, they will have completed 42kms of tunnel.  Simultaneo
 usly construction is underway on new stations at Paddington\, Bond Street\
 , Tottenham Court Road\, Farringdon\, Whitechapel\, Canary Wharf\, Custom 
 House and Woolwich.\n\nPatrick Griffin has worked for Crossrail since 2007
 .  Prior to this he spent 10 years as Council Officer at the Institution o
 f Civil Engineers.  Patrick’s current role is Freedom of Information Off
 icer which requires him to respond formally to requests from members of th
 e public seeking information on a wide range of subjects.   One request as
 ked how many times our vehicles had been filled with the incorrect fuel!\n
 \nPatrick is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the Institution of Civil
  Engineers. In an earlier life he spent a full career as an officer in the
  Royal Engineers culminating in managing the infrastructure at RAF Marham.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 0\, University of Cambridge Engineering Departmen
 t\, Trumpington Street\, Cambridge
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