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Background to Crossrail
 | Cross London Rail Links (Crossrail) is a 50/50 joint venture company formed by Transport for London (TfL) and the Department for Transport (DfT). |
 | CLRL is tasked with promoting and developing a new railway route called Crossrail through London (West-East) from Maidenhead and Heathrow via Paddington, Liverpool Street and Stratford to Shenfield, and via Whitechapel to Isle of Dogs (Canary Wharf), Woolwich ending at Abbey Wood. |
 | Crossrail was allocated a budget of £154m in 2001 by central Government to carry out feasibility work for to acquire Parliamentary powers. It was given a further £100m in 2005 for development work.
Crossrail is currently going through Parliament in order to obtain authority to build the railway. |
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