Work on Crossrail stations started to slip in 2016, scheme's boss reveals

By Jordan Marshall2019-03-07T06:00:00

Tottenham Court Road Crossrail Station - October-November update

Source: TfL

Mark Wild tells MPs central London sites will now be finished after signalling works

The man tasked with finishing Crossrail has revealed that the construction programmes on the nine new Crossrail stations began to slip as early as 2016 meaning they are now unlikely to be finished before the signalling works is completed.

Crossrail chief executive Mark Wild (pictured) told the Public Accounts Committee, the government’s spending watchdog, that the writing was on the wall as early as 2016 that the station projects, which should have been completed before the signalling, were falling behind.

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