After 35 years of planning and development, Crossrail finally broke ground on 15 May 2009 at Canary Wharf, when the Mayor and the then Transport Secretary Lord Adonis launched the first pile into the North Dock in Docklands at the site of the new Canary Wharf station.

When was Crossrail meant to open?

It is now expected to open in the first half of 2022. In April 2019 Crosrail boss Mark Wild saidd the scheme would open some time between October 2020 and March 2021.

Is the Elizabeth line the same as Crossrail?

The Elizabeth line. ... The project was known as Crossrail until February 2016, when TfL announced that it was being renamed the Elizabeth line, in honour of the Queen.