A new underground suburban railway line will accompany London's already extensive Tube system. Prime Minister Gordon Brown approved funding for the £16 billion ($32 billion US) Crossrail tunnel ...

Crossrail’s first tunnel beneath the Thames in London has been completed, as part of a series of tunnelling milestones achieved under the programme. The milestones achieved also include structural ...

The tunnel portals will act as an entry point for the tunnel boring machines that will construct the Crossrail tunnels and in future will provide an entrance and exit for trains to the underground ...

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has unveiled Crossrail’s new tunnel under the River Thames, as part of the £14.8bn Crossrail project. When it becomes operational in 2018, the tunnel will ...

Major European contractors have flocked to London for a piece of the 21-kilometer Crossrail tunnel project now advancing at more than 40 sites across the city. Billed as Europe's largest ...

Subterranean London is riddled with twisting tunnels that carry subway trains, rivers and secrets beneath the city’s busy streets. Now new video reveals that a huge addition to this underground ...

Creating a new 118-km (73-mile) rail route with 10 new stations and 42 km (26 miles) of new tunnels is no mean feat. The logistics of doing so in one of the world’s major cities, however, are ...

Connaught Tunnel in the Royal Docks was built in 1878 and was part of the North London Line until 2006. The tunnel will be extensively refurbished as part of works to construct Crossrail’s new Abbey ...

Workers on the £14.8bn Crossrail project have made their latest breakthrough by tunnelling under the City of London. The project's 1,000-tonne tunnel machine, named Elizabeth after the Queen, broke ...