Cross Rail London

This article provides an in-depth analysis of the Cross Rail project in London, including its background, planning phase, and the reasons behind its delays. It explores the impact of the project on transportation and the challenges faced during its execution. The article also discusses the estimated cost, new trains, and the stages of the project's opening. References are provided for further reading.

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Back ground of the Cross-rail project in London:
The European cross-rail is considered as one of United Kingdom’s most ambitious
project so far. UK has so far made numerous investments on the railway management
systems and UK rail infrastructure. UK Government has so far provided various examples of
successful projects regarding the railway infrastructure and these include the InterCity
Express Programme, the Rail Investment Strategy Programme, the Electrification
programme, Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Programme and the Borders Railway and
others (Davies et al. 2014). The construction idea was commenced on 15 May 2009 that
began at Canary Wharf Station and even then, the construction was delayed than the usual
estimated time. The time estimated according to the UK government was by August 2018,
which was not fulfilled and the UK population was announced that it would not be available
by 2019. With this report, it can be said that the Cross-Rail Project needs to be analysed in
details about the formulation of the project management behind the implementation of the
initial planning phase and why the project falls behind schedule.
The total project estimated a total cost of $14.8 billion. Cross rail is the new railway
in London that was planned to track from one lateral to the other opening and concluding
outside of the Greater London part but also in original subways subversive central London
(Black 2017). The outlet that was calculated to run northeast originates into the exposed just
beforehand Stratford and runs over the streak that is presently known as the Tfl Rail, sacking
at Sheffield. The project also encompassed of edifice up of nine new stations in the central
extent with all other prevailing positions on the line either being promoted or reconstructed
(Tucker 2017). The project reported that when the facility is fully consecutively done to
about 24 trains running per hour in the highest over the essential section with 12 individually
on the two eastern twigs, 14 of the trains will dismiss the Pennington and out of the added 10,

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4 will run to the Heathrow, 6 will run to West Drayton, 4 to Maidenhead and the remaining
two will terminate at Reading.
In order to run the service effectively, the project also planned for implementation of
65 brand new trains that are being planned to be built with the capability of resounding one
and a half thousand customers each and these trains are planned to be built very long.
Compared to six-car Pullmans on the Piccadilly lines and tubes Northern and even lengthier
eight car trains on the Central lines and the tubes Victoria and Central lines (Dodgson et al.
2015). Cross rail trains are estimated to be built even longer at two hundred and five meters.
With such extended trains, it’s going to be more significant than ever. The western entry and
exit will be a third way down casted on the road near Oxford Circus tube (Nicholson et al.
2014). At Farringdon Cross rail the eastern termination of the station is planned to attach up
with Barbican tube station such as the length of the platforms on the ground and for
Liverpool Street Cross rail station the western end spreads with all its way to Moorgate.
The project of Cross rail London is planned not to open up all at once but is scheduled
to open up in stages. The Liverpool Street to Shenfield is planned to branch at Tfl. In the year
2007, UK government gained a funding deal for the project of cross rail. The main objective
of the structure of the project is to provide the capability to transport by coping up with the
London’s population and the growing economy (Wan et al. 2016). Thus, it can be said that
the cross-rail project was initiated for helping the population across UK, but it did not help in
preserving the environment and not the company budget altogether. As the service of Cross
rail is planned to provide service over the vast route, capacity is determined to be freed at the
existing route. The background of the project thus enunciates in which way the project was
initiated and planned. The failure of planning and the execution of the project needs to be
analysed.

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