Drum roll please – it’s the big reveal! What is London’s Crossrail to be called when it opens in December 2018? You’ve got three guesses when we tell you that it’s named in honour of Her Majesty…you got it! The ‘Elizabeth Line’. The name was unveiled along with the line’s purple colour theme as the Queen visited Bond Street station to see construction and meet staff. Apparently Boris Johnson came up with the idea to call the £15 billion route after the Queen two years ago — but the name has been kept under wraps until now. Sneaky.
The Queen unveils a plaque marking @Crossrail 1’s naming as the #Elizabethline, in Her Majesty’s 90th year pic.twitter.com/FxK0MzP78I
— BritishMonarchy (@BritishMonarchy) February 23, 2016
Crossrail is one of the biggest and most ambitious infrastructure projects the country has seen, and when completed is expected to carry around 200 million passengers a year. It will run from Reading and Heathrow in the west, to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east via central London. The first section will be known as Crossrail when it opens next May, between Liverpool Street and Shenfield in Essex, with the Elizabeth Line opening in December 2018 and a full service by 2019.
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