The £20 billion Elizabeth line has opened to Londoners with much fanfare after people queued throughout the night to take the first trains from Paddington and Abbey Wood. There were extraordinary ...

The new Crossrail service, known as the Elizabeth line, will open on Tuesday 24 May, Transport for London said. The capital's new railway will run from Reading in Berkshire to Shenfield in Essex and ...

Before the pandemic, many London-area commuters were obliged to take crammed Tube carriages for parts of their journey. Riders from eastern Essex or western Berkshire, for example, had to get a ...

It’s Europe’s biggest infrastructure project, with 130 million working hours spent on it so far. As an engineering feat, it rivals the Channel Tunnel, which connects the UK to France. And it has the ...

Tory Chancellor Kenneth Clarke warned that initial plans for the Elizabeth Line were a “folie de grandeur” that taxpayers would be unwilling to foot the bill, during a protracted rearguard action ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. London's $25 billion railway, which took 23 years to build, hits 100 million passenger journeys since opening in May. One station ...