Moving Ahead, January 2017: Crossrail’s Quarterly Update

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Tunnelling and construction on the Crossrail project first got under way at Canary Wharf in May 2009. Now, at the start of 2017, the project is 80% complete, with the first services through central London due to start running in late 2018.

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