Two more tunnel boring machines (TBMs) are ready to make the journey to London for the Crossrail project in the UK's captial Crossrail Limited (CRL), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Transport for ...

The massive, two-storey high drilling machine digging the Crossrail tunnel in London has arrived at Liverpool Street station. Dramatic pictures show the moment it broke through. Here was the scene ...

DSJV runs two production lines to cast the eight segments needed for each of the contract's 13,700 lining rings at Chatham, which is 50 km away. "We are making one segment every seven minutes," says ...

Tunnelling activity for the Crossrail metro project in London, UK, has reached another milestone with the lowering of a 550 tonne tunnel boring machine (TBM) into a 40m deep shaft ahead of the start ...

Crossrail’s new tunnel from Limmo Peninsula to Victoria Dock in east London, UK, has been completed, bringing the total number of finished rail tunnels under the programme to 83%. The 1,000t Jessica ...

THIS is the first of two 1,000 tonne tunnelling beasts that will be carving paths under the Thames for Crossrail’s link between Abbey Wood and central London. Colossal tunnel boring machine (TBM) ...

The Prime Minister was joined by Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to meet engineers and construction workers and to hear more about tunnelling preparations for Europe’s largest civil engineering ...

London’s £14.8bn Crossrail project, which will see a new underground line run from the west to the east side of the UK’s capital, via the city centre, is now in full swing. Crossrail is a capacity ...