The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway
The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway

The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway

2014 4 Seasons 9 Episodes ⭐ 8.0 Documentary Reality

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.

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.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Urban Heart Surgery

A look at London's Crossrail, which requires building 42 km of tunnels under the city

EP 2

Tunnels Under the Thames

Engineers building Crossrail battle to rebuild a Victorian tunnel under the Royal Docks.

EP 3

Platforms and Plague Pits

The engineers building Crossrail race to build ten new train stations across London.

EP 1

Episode 1

Linda and her team must battle fault lines that threaten the site with flooding, race to build access tunnels to allevia

EP 2

Episode 2

Engineers must construct and fit out a new station at Paddington, erect a 130m long great glass canopy to soar above the

EP 1

Episode 1

The first part of an exclusive series following the construction of Crossrail - one of Europe’s largest projects and o

EP 2

Episode 2

Final part of an exclusive series following the construction of Crossrail - one of Europe’s largest projects and one o

EP 1

Episode 1

With exclusive access to Crossrail Ltd and Transport for London, this final chapter of the series follows the race to fi

EP 2

Episode 2

We follow 83-year-old site manager Jim Forrest - one of the oldest engineers on the project. He joined the Whitechapel S

Popular Cast

Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt
Himself - Narrator