Crossrail has transferred the Woolwich Elizabeth Line station to Transport for London (TfL) following completion of its construction by Balfour Beatty.
It is the fourth of the new Elizabeth Line stations to be transferred over to TfL, alongside Custom House, Farringdon and Tottenham Court Road stations.
Balfour Beatty, which worked alongside design partner Mott MacDonald, will now continue demobilisation from the site.
Entry to the station will be from a single 30-metre-wide bronze clad portal, which opens out onto Dial Arch Square.
Two facades of the station depict a contemporary representation of the bronze memorial plaques that were minted here during the First World War. The black steel cladding that makes up the facades incorporates images of Britannia and the Lion, which had originally featured on the bronze plaques. The ‘Dead Man’s Penny’, as they came to be known, were ceremonial coins given to the families of soldiers who gave their lives in the Great War.
More than one million of these plaques were cast at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich. In 2019 Crossrail also revealed a memorial ‘Dead Man’s Penny’ plaque, outside the station.
