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Engineering Icons Tube Map

November 20, 2023

I’m honoured and humbled to be featured on the Engineering Icons Tube Map launched today as part of the celebration of National Engineering Day – 1st November 2023. My name has been added against the position of Custom House Station on the Elizabeth Line on the map.

For me, the delivery of safe and assured railway projects has always been the epitome of what engineering is all about – providing high performing services to the public that are relied upon day in / day out. The Elizabeth Line has been the pinnacle of my career delivering a railway used by over 600,000 people every day – I have so much pride in what we all achieved as a team.

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