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The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway

Follow a team of more than 10,000 engineers and construction workers as they race to build a brand new railway under London - Crossrail - London's new Underground.

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Status

Returning Series

Original Name

The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway

First Air Date

July 16, 2014

Last Air Date

June 19, 2022

Seasons

4

Episodes

9

Language

English

Production Companies

Windfall Films

Networks

BBC Two

S04E02

Episode 2

We follow 83-year-old site manager Jim Forrest - one of the oldest engineers on the project. He joined the Whitechapel Station build in 2009 and has seen it from tunnel boring and concrete pouring to constructing the station steel works.

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