The new Crossrail station at Canary Wharf has moved a step closer to completion after the final piece of a timber lattice roof was lowered into place.
The roof will sit above a new roof garden and a four storey, 115,000 sq ft retail and leisure development including shops, restaurants, bars and a cinema. The roof garden and first phase of the retail and leisure space will open in May 2015, three years before trains run through the station.
Work began on the new station in May 2009 by creating dam in the waters of North Dock. The station box was then built 28 metres below the water surface to create the ticket hall and platform levels.
Eight 40 metre-long escalators, four lifts, flooring, wall cladding and space for station services are all in place in the ticket hall level.
Crossrail’s tunnelling programme is almost complete. When Crossrail opens in 2018, it will increase London’s rail-based transport network capacity by 10 per cent and cut journey times across the city, bringing an extra 1.5m people within 45 minutes of central London.
