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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The £16bn Crossrail project has dug out many miles of tunnels beneath London's streets. The company has taken on thousands of unemployed people and even created a special academy to train them - but ...

London's Crossrail network is roughly 60% complete. Although the first rail services will not be operational until 2017, a lot of construction work has been accomplished in the last five years, as ...