Crossrail says 100 targets to meet before trial running begins

摘要

Crossrail has said that more than 100 milestones still have to be met before the railway can begin trial running trains along the central section of the route. The news emerged in the first of a series of promised updates Crossrail said it was issuing as part of an initiative to "being fully open and transparent" in the final stages of the project. The trial running phase is due to start in the first three months of next year, giving Crossrail between six and nine months of testing time if the line is due to hit the earliest date, October 2020, in its revised opening window timetable. Chief executive Mark Wild said building and testing software to integrate the train operating system with signalling systems needed to be completed first.