Crossrail 2 October 2015 – Tottenham Hale Tunnelling Site
This Crossrail document is entitled Tunnelling Worksite At Tottenham Hale.
This is said.
A new Crossrail 2 portal at Tottenham Hale would include the following:
A retained cutting approximately 300 metres long where the surface railway gradually descends to the tunnel entrance
The tunnel entrance, where the surface railway enters the tunnel and the tunnel boring machines would start from during construction
A worksite for building and equipping the tunnels
It’s all quite simple really and this Google Map shows the area.
Tottenham Hale Tunnelling Worksite
The worksite is the triangular area, bounded by rail lines, north of the Markfield Beam Engine and Museum. The rail lines are.
- The North-South West Anglia Main Line.
- The East-West Gospel Oak to Barking Line.
- The curve that allows trains to pass between the two other lines.
You can get a good view of the site from both of the first two lines.
The site seems to be mainly a site that collects London’s demolition rubbish. Some of the pictures came from Could This Be Where Crossrail 2 Is Dug?
In addition to the tunnel portal here, it may also be the starting point of the four-tracking of the West Anglia Main Line to increase capacity.
I have always assumed that the two new slow lines that are being built alongside the West Anglia Main Line will be built on the Eastern side of the current two tracks. I could have made a wrong assumption, but if this is the case, there will need to be tunnels under the main lines so that Crossrail 2 can join up with the slow lines.
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