Tata Steel to supply rails for London rail project

Indian steelmaker Tata Steel's European operations, Tata Steel Europe, has announced that it will supply highly wear-resistant rail for the Crossrail project beneath London.
 
Tata Steel has already commenced deliveries to the Crossrail project, and will ultimately supply the project with more than 57 km of its heat-treated, wear-resistant rail. In total 7,000 mt of Tata Steel rail will be used to create one of Europe's largest railway and infrastructure projects.
 
The steel will be produced at Tata Steel's Scunthorpe site in the UK before being rolled at the company's Hayange mill in northern France.
 
The Crossrail route will serve 40 stations and travel more than 100 km from Reading and Heathrow in the west, through new twin-bore 21 km tunnels below central London to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east.