500 people working on Crossrail’s Bond Street station

By Jordan Marshall2019-08-09T05:00:00

The site pictured last week

Around 500 people are still working on Crossrail’s Bond Street station 24 hours a day as the scheme’s bosses scramble to get the problem site finished enough to start trial running trains through it by early next year.

Crossrail has already admitted that it can’t yet commence trial running because work, which is being carried out by a Costain/Skanska joint venture, is so far behind schedule.

Now Matt Houston, who is the construction manager at Bond Street, said the project team is racing to get the station ready to accept trains during the next phase.

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