SALE ON NOW! PROMOTIONS

Close Notification

Your cart does not contain any items

Crossrail: How The Elizabeth Line Was Built by Dan Harvey at Abbey's Bookshop,
Crossrail: How The Elizabeth Line Was Built
— —
Dan Harvey

Crossrail

How The Elizabeth Line Was Built

Dan Harvey

$83.95   $71.35

Hardback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?
English
Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
22 May 2025
Transport planning & policy; Railway technology, engineering & trades; Trains & railways: general interest
When the long-held ambition of building a new railway across London finally received the go-ahead in 2008, Britain embarked on a project the likes of which it had never seen before. Vast stations and huge tunnels would be constructed through and under the centre of the capital and all with minimal disruption to the flow of everyday life.

As Europe's largest rail project at the time the scale of the engineering was jaw-dropping. Yet it was the railway systems and other clever technology needed to knit together the new infrastructure that would prove crucial to completing this multi-billion pound enterprise.

'Crossrail: How the Elizabeth line was built' is the full story of this era-defining rail programme, written by journalist Dan Harvey who had unrivalled access to the people and places that were key to the project's development. The book details everything from the planning, funding and approvals process through to construction, fit out and opening with fascinating insights into the tunnels, stations, system operators and trains that together form today's Elizabeth line.

As well as faithfully recounting how Crossrail came into existence Dan also considers the challenges faced by the programme, the future for the Elizabeth line, and what metro rail projects today can learn from the experience of Crossrail.
By:  
Imprint:   Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   769g
ISBN:   9781803818818
ISBN 10:   1803818816
Pages:   312
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Dan Harvey reported on the Crossrail programme from funding approval in 2008 to completion in 2023. With a monthly column devoted to the project in Modern Railways magazine and regular updates on the Transport Briefing website he gained an unrivalled insight into the development of the Elizabeth line, one of Britain's largest ever rail infrastructure undertakings.

See Also

Crossrail: How The Elizabeth Line Was Built

Railway Noise and Vibration

Mechanisms, Modelling, and Means...

David Thompson (Professor of Railway...

Paperback

$496.95 

Not in-store but you can order this

ADD +
Crossrail: How The Elizabeth Line Was Built

A Quite Impossible Proposal

How Not to Build a Railway

Andrew Drummond

Paperback

$46.99 

Not in-store but you can order this

ADD +
Crossrail: How The Elizabeth Line Was Built

Fundamentals of Railway Design

Marco Guerrieri

Paperback

$138.95  $110.98

Not in-store but you can order this

ADD +
Crossrail: How The Elizabeth Line Was Built

Dedicated Mobile Communications...

Zhang-Dui Zhong

Hardback

$370.95  $296.98

Not in-store but you can order this

ADD +
Crossrail: How The Elizabeth Line Was Built

Proceedings of the 3rd International...

Transportation

Limin Jia

Hardback

$316.95  $253.52

Not in-store but you can order this

ADD +
Crossrail: How The Elizabeth Line Was Built

German Railways

A Study in the Historical Geography...

R. E. H. Mellor

Paperback

$60.99 

Not in-store but you can order this

ADD +