A major construction milestone has been made on Crossrail's new Whitechapel station.

A joint venture comprising Balfour Beatty, BeMo Tunnelling, Morgan Sindall and VINCI Construction Grands Projets, (BBMV), which is delivering two sections of the £15bn Crossrail project, has finished the spray concrete lining (SCL) of the two tunnels that will form the space occupied by the new station platforms.

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The completion of the SCL has allowed colleagues at Dragados Sisk joint venture to move two tunneling machines through the station to commence the final tunneling push underneath London's East End towards Liverpool Street and Farringdon stations.

As soon as the tunneling machines have completely passed through the station the team will complete secondary lining works for handover to its sister project for platform construction.

(CD/JP)