The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway

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The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway
GenreFactual
Narrated by Julian Barratt
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons4
No. of episodes9
Production
Executive producerCarlo Massarella
ProducerLee Reading
Original release
Network
Release16 July 2014 (2014-07-16) –
19 June 2022 (2022-06-19)

The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway is a British TV documentary series about the construction of a section of the Crossrail railway line which tunnels beneath central London. The first series was produced by Windfall Films and released in the UK in July 2014. [1] [2] [3] It was aired by SBS in Australia, as London's Super Tunnel, commencing in November 2014. [4]

Contents

A second series started airing in May 2017, [5] a third series in February 2019, [6] and a fourth and final series, covering the testing and snags in the eventual run-up to public opening, aired in June 2022. [7]

Episodes

Series 1
TitleOriginal airdateEpisode
Urban Heart Surgery16 July 20141
Tunnels Under The Thames23 July 20142
Platform and Plague Pits30 July 20143
Series 2
TitleOriginal airdateEpisode
The Final Countdown (Part 1)22 May 20171
The Final Countdown (Part 2)29 May 20172
Series 3
TitleOriginal airdateEpisode
Under Pressure, Over Budget (Part 1)13 February 20191
Under Pressure, Over Budget (Part 2)20 February 20192
Series 4
TitleOriginal airdateEpisode
Inside The Elizabeth Line (Part 1)12 June 20221
Inside The Elizabeth Line (Part 2)19 June 20222

References

  1. ↑ "The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway". Windfall Films. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
  2. ↑ Release info: The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway at IMDb
  3. ↑ O'Donovan, Gerard. "The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway, BBC Two, review: 'curiously breathtaking'". Telegraph.co.uk.
  4. ↑ "The world's most complex underground railway construction is underway!". www.sbs.com.au. SBS - Special Broadcasting Service. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  5. ↑ Dowling, Tim (23 May 2017). "The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway review – like Top Gear for train fans". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 21 February 2019. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
  6. ↑ Dowling, Tim (20 February 2019). "The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway review – digging into the Crossrail catastrophe". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 21 February 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  7. ↑ Singh, Anita (12 June 2022). "The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway: Inside the Elizabeth Line, review: a dull journey". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 13 June 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
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