Digging inches from disaster: how they built the Elizabeth Line | News
As prices soared and deadlines whooshed previous, it appeared as if the leaders of the Crossrail mission have been decided to remodel the £19 billion megaproject right into a nationwide joke. The Queen, in whose honour it was renamed the Elizabeth Line, evidently had different concepts. On Tuesday she gave it the royal seal of approval, unexpectedly taking on ceremonial duties from Prince Edward, her youngest son, at Paddington.
For Boris Johnson, the prime minister, regardless of the £4 billion value overrun, and the delay of three-and-a-half years, the opening proved that even in an age of uncertainty, Britain nonetheless has the chutzpah to perform gargantuan feats of engineering.
Within the railway mania of the mid-1840s, the vested curiosity of aristocratic landowners, such because the Grosvenor and
