Mileage/metreage of all Crossrail lines (Reading & Heathrow to Abbey Wood & Shenfield)
Request ID: FOI-1440-2223 Date published: 29 September 2022
You asked
To whom it may concern,
I respectfully request the actual mileages/metreages recorded for all stations, junctions, depots and tunnel portals including change of mileage/metreage, including interfaces between Network Rail & Crossrail.
A PDF or Excel spreadsheet format would be ideal.
I have been unable to locate this information on your website to date.
Many thanks in advance.
We answered
Our ref: FOI-1440-2223/GH
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 14 September 2022 asking for information about the Elizabeth Line.
Your request has been considered under the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and our information access policy. I can confirm that we do hold the information you require.
Rail for London Infrastructure (RfLI) are obliged to publish and maintain a Sectional Appendix required by Rail Industry Standard RIS-3215-TOM. Part of the Sectional Appendix is to publish the route information in your request as Table A Diagrams. Network Rail (NR) have an already established public facing website that hosts all the Sectional Appendix information for the UK Rail Industry. RfLI entered into a SLA with NR to host the Crossrail Central Operating Section (CCOS) on NR’s National Electronic Sectional Appendix (NESA). RfLI maintain the CCOS Sectional Appendix content via RSSB Rail Notices Published in Weekly Operating Notices (WON), subsequently NR Planning and Publications update the content hosted on NESA.
It should be noted that NR is responsible for the following data published to NESA. NR Western Route; Reading & Heathrow NR Anglia Route Shenfield NR Kent Route Abbey Wood
CCOS – Network Rail boundary Metreage Datums, LORs & ELRs The CCOS – NR boundary areas are particularly complex, as there are 9 different ELRs and 7 different ways for measuring distance dependent on the LOR, ELR and Line. Line of Routes (LORs), Engineer’s Line References (ELRs) and Lines detailed in the CCOS Table A Diagrams.
Owner
LOR
ELR
Lines
Measuring Distance Unit
Datum Start NESA Table A Diagram
CCOS
XR001
XRC
EB (Eastbound) WB (Westbound)
Kilometres and metres
CCOS Datum 0 Kilometres LOR: XR001 Seq: 007 And NR LOR: GW103 Seq: 002
CCOS
XR001
XRE
EB (Eastbound) WB (Westbound)
Kilometres and metres
CCOS
XR002
XRS
WB (Westbound), EB (Eastbound)
Kilometres and metres
NR
GW103
XRC
Part of NR lines 6 and 5
Miles and Chains
NR – XRC 0 Miles Datum LOR: XR001 Seq: 008 And NR LOR: GW103 Seq: 003
NR
SO290
XRS
WB (Westbound)
Miles and Chains
NR
GW103
MLN1
1,2,3,4,5 and 6
Miles and Chains
NR Paddington Station 0 Miles Datum LOR: GW103 Seq: 001
NR
SO290
NKL
UNKL (Up North Kent), DNKL (Down North Kent)
Miles and Chains
NR Cannon Street 0 Datum LOR: SO130 Seq 002
NR
EA1010
LTN1
UE (Up Electric) DE (Down Electric) UM (Up Main) DM (Down Main Line) UTM (Up Temple Mills) DTM (Down Temple Mills)
Miles and Chains
NR Liverpool Street Station 0 Datum LOR: EA1010 Seq: 001
CCOS
XR001
XRC
EB & WB
CCOS Maintenance Negative metres
CCOS Datum 0 Kilometres LOR: XR001 Seq: 007
DLR
DLR Island Gardens Station and DLR Line is shown on drawing LOR: XR001 Seq 022 for location purposes only.
