Crossrail overspend on stations tops £2bn

By Jordan Marshall2019-05-03T05:00:00

National Audit Office report also reveals Crossrail has spent £936m on ‘compensation events’

The expected cost of finishing seven Crossrail stations has increased by more than £2bn, a National Audit Office report has found.

The report, Completing Crossrail, revealed that the forecast cost of the main civils packages had more than doubled at Farringdon, Liverpool Street, Paddington, Bond Street, Whitechapel, Tottenham Court Road and Woolwich stations between when the contracts were awarded and December last year.

While the new station at Bond Street, which is being built by a Costain Skanska JV, has been considered the most problematic job - and is not guaranteed to open in line with the rest of the line by March 2021 - it is not the station where costs have had the most significant increase.

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