TFL: Elizabeth Line Is Due To Open Very Soon
London’s Elizabeth line is set to be unveiled on May 24, 2022.
The Elizabeth line will open nearly three-and-a-half years late.
Engineering work will continue during the summer.
The project had an original budget of £14.8bn, but the government pledged an extra £4bn to help get it open.
The Elizabeth line is the most significant addition to the transport network in decades.
The Abbey Wood to Paddington section will open to passengers on 24 May, although initially trains will not run on Sundays or call at Bond Street.
Known as the Elizabeth line, it was meant to start running in December 2018 but the £18.8bn project has missed multiple targets amid ballooning costs.
The railway will link Reading and Essex via central London.
Once the route is open, services in the central London section will run every five minutes between 06:30 BST and 23:00, although a full timetable will not be in place until May 2023.
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The new line will slash journey times from Abbey Wood in south-east London to Paddington by almost half - to 29 minutes.
Part of the delay and cost has been due to Crossrail’s complicated signalling, which integrates three different systems. Trains will run automatically in the central tunnels but need to switch to different signalling systems on the eastern section of the railway to Shenfield and on the lines to Reading and Heathrow in the west.
More signs with the purple livery of the Elizabeth line will be uncovered in the coming weeks, as well as the updated tube map showing the connections with the rest of the TfL network. Bus services will also be changed in east London to connect with the new stations.
Travel times between Liverpool Street and Woolwich will also be halved to 15 minutes, while a trip between Farringdon and Canary Wharf, which currently takes 24 minutes, will take 10 minutes.
However, passengers wishing to travel the length of the line will still need to change at Paddington or Liverpool Street, depending on their destination, until next year.
Although a special service will be in place for the Platinum Jubilee weekend, TfL said trains would not initially run on Sundays "to allow a series of testing and software updates".
The aim of the crossrail is to connect commuter towns to the east and west of London to the centre of the city. The Elizabeth line travels through popular towns such as Maidenhead, Slough, Ilford and Brentwood.
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