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News in brief...
Hunt for new Network Rail
non-exec begins
NR is searching for a new
non-executive director with
specific significant railway
experience after Graham
Eccles’ decision to standdown
at the company’s AGM
this month. Eccles, who will
move on to become chairman
of TXM Group, joined the
NR board in 2010 after
nearly 45 years of operating,
managing and directing
Britain’s railway.
ScotRail gets green light for
wind turbines
ScotRail has been granted
permission to install two
wind turbines at its Bathgate
depot in West Lothian. This
will be the first time wind
turbines have been installed
at a ScotRail depot. The
project will save almost eight
tonnes of CO2 per year, as
well as producing around
14,000 kWh of electricity
- enough to power a small
station like Greenfaulds.
Nominations open for
RailStaff Awards 2013
Work in the UK rail industry
Know someone who is an
outstanding member of
your team Then you might
want to nominate them for
a RailStaff Award (www.
railstaffawards.com).
Nominations close on 4th
August and the final will be
held on Saturday 5th October
at ICC Birmingham. The 2012
event saw more than 1,000
people in attendance, 1,200
nominations and 32,000 votes.
The Crossrail project celebrated its biggest milestone so far as
Elizabeth, one of its huge 1,000 tonne tunnelling machines,
broke through into the new Canary Wharf station box.
Crossrail’s eastern tunnelling machines, Elizabeth and Victoria,
were launched from the Limmo Peninsula site near Canning Town
towards the end of last year to create 8.3km (5.16 miles) of tunnels
from east London to Farringdon – the project’s longest tunnel
section.
Over the past six months, both machines have been working
round the clock to create the first section of new tunnels beneath the
River Lea and east London towards the new Canary Wharf Crossrail
station.
The huge Canary Wharf station box is 28 metres underground
and was designed and built by Canary Wharf Group, which is also
delivering a four-storey retail development above the ticket hall and
platform levels. The retail development will feature a roof-top garden,
community facility and restaurant semi-covered by a Foster-designed
timber lattice roof.
Elizabeth is now undergoing maintenance inside the station box
before resuming tunnelling towards
central London.
Crossrail is moving into the peak
of construction between now and
2015 and the entire project is more
than one-third complete.
Key future milestones include:
• Completion of the first Crossrail
tunnels by the end of 2013 - the
6km western section between
Royal Oak and Farringdon
• Crossrail’s final two tunnel-boring
machines launched later this year
to begin further tunnelling work
in Pudding Mill Lane, east London
• Archaeology work continuing at
Crossrail sites including excavation
of the Bedlam burial ground at
Liverpool Street station
• Work nearing completion on the
34.5 metres deep Stepney Green
shaft, one of Europe’s largest
underground caverns - the two
eastern tunnelling machines will
pass through the shaft later
this year.
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