Part of Crossrail testing programme slips further behind schedule

By Jordan Marshall2019-05-15T05:00:00

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Work to run trains close together now won’t start until June, nearly three months after original plan

Part of Crossrail’s testing programme has already fallen behind schedule with the £17.6bn scheme’s boss promising to “make every effort” to start next month.

In his first update to the newly appointed chair of the London Assembly’s transport committee Florence Eshalomi, Crossrail chief executive Mark Wild said close-headway testing – which tests running trains close together – had been due to start in March but has still not got begun.

In his letter he said: “As mentioned in my previous update, due to a safety critical issue in the software process we did not start close-headway testing as planned on 18 March.”

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