The Anonymous Widower

Crossrail 2 October 2015 – Shoreditch Park Area

This is Crossrail 2’s map of their possible worksites in the Shoreditch Park area. It comes from this Crossrail 2 document entitled Crossrail 2 Shafts.

Crossrail 2 Shoreditch Park

Note that the Worksites are labelled A to E.

To show them in more detail, this is a Google Map of the same area.

A Google Map Of The Area

Crossrail 2 have said this about the choice of work site.

A single worksite would be required to build and equip the shaft and the junction.

We are currently considering a number of options for the shaft in the area. Our current options have been selected because they would allow us to position the possible ‘Eastern Branch’ junction under the open space of Shoreditch Park.

Bear in mind that Crossrail 2 tunnels will be twenty or so metres down, so positioning the junction, which could be noisy, as trains rattle over the points, under a park some fifty metres and more from any dwellings, could be a good idea. Crossrail 2 wouldn’t want a repeat of the Victoria Line noise problems at Walthamstow

If we assume that one work site is what they’d like to do, I don’t feel that they would use more than two. The sites are as follows.

• Sites A and B to the West are commercial storage.
• Site C is the North-West corner of the Park
• Sites D and E are in the Britannia Leisure Centre.

The sites D and E are on the Hackney branch of the line, so unless that line is built in Phase 1, I doubt that they will be used.

If they are, knocking down and rebuilding leisure centres or commercial premises is a lot less costly and inconvenient, than demolishing houses or flats.

I don’t know what Crossrail 2 will do, but I visited the Crossrail site at Stepney City Farm, which is over a massive junction on Crossrail, so is very similar to Shoreditch Park.

I found a very good relationship existing between all parties. There certainly hasn’t been any bad reports about the Stepney City Farm site on the web.

This report is from the East London Advertiser.

Crossrail 2 will cause themselves a lot of problems, if they don’t do as well as Crossrail!

I took these pictures as I walked from the Britannia Leisure Centre through Shoreditch Park to Eagle Wharf Road. At the end of Eagle Wharf Road, I crossed the Regent’s Canal and looked at the building in Eagle Wharf Road from the towpath.

I can’t see any obvious reason, why the Leisure Centre would be used for Crossrail 2, as neither of the commercial buildings in Eagle Wharf Road are of the finest quality and given Crossrail’s treatment of Mile End Park, there would appear no reason the corner of the Park can’t be used.

One of the great advantages of the Park, would be that if you need to bring in some really heavy equipment, you’d just remove the iron railings and roll it through the gap.

Under current plans, there would appear to be no reason to extract or insert a tunnel boring machine in the Shoreditch area.

But choosing the Park would allow this to be done if required.

There is also the problem of a head-house.

It might be difficult to provide one in the Park, but evacuating into a large park from a problem in the tunel might be very safe.

Head houses on the sites in Eagle Wharf Road could even be built into any new buildings on the site.

Architecture and engineering design is moving on apace and who knows what will be possible when Crossrail 2 is built?

October 28, 2015 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Crossrail, Crossrail 2, Crossrail 2 October 2015, Tunnels