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Christian Wolmar

The Story of Crossrail

Christian Wolmar

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English
Head of Zeus
01 January 2019
Transport planning & policy; Civil engineering, surveying & building; Railway technology, engineering & trades; Trains & railways: general interest
The story of an engineering marvel of the twenty-first century, from Britain's bestselling railway writer.

Crossrail, first conceived just after the Second World War in the era of Attlee and Churchill, has cost more than £15bn and is expected to serve 200 million passengers annually. From Reading and Heathrow in the west, the Elizabeth line will extend to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east, including 42 kilometres of new tunnels dug under central London.

The author sets out the complex and highly political reasons for Crossrail's lengthy gestation, tracing the troubled progress of the concept from the rejection of the first Crossrail bill in the 1990s through the tortuous parliamentary processes that led to the passing of the Crossrail Act of 2008. He also recounts in detail the construction of this astonishing new railway, describing how immense tunnel-boring machines cut through a subterranean world of rock and mud with unparalleled accuracy that ensured none of the buildings overhead were affected.

A shrewdly incisive observer of postwar transport policy, Wolmar pays due credit to the remarkable achievement of Crossrail, while analysing in clear-eyed fashion the many setbacks it encountered en route to completion.
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Imprint:   Head of Zeus
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 153mm, 
ISBN:   9781788540254
ISBN 10:   1788540255
Pages:   320
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Christian Wolmar is an award-winning journalist and the author of a series of books on transport history including Fire & Steam, Railways & the Raj and Railways. He writes regularly for various newspapers and magazines, and has a regular column in Rail magazine.

Reviews for The Story of Crossrail

There will surely be lessons from Crossrail to suggest how the work might have been done even more efficiently and quickly * Financial Times * PRAISE FOR CHRISTIAN WOLMAR: 'An excellent history of the London Underground' The Times on The Subterranean Railway. 'A lucid and engaging account of the far-reaching effects that trains have had upon society' The Railway & Canal Historical Society on Railways. 'A wonderful account of how our railways came to be' Jon Snow on Fire and Steam. 'A marvellously informative, entertaining and rightly partisan book' * Sunday Times, on Fire and Steam *


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