Phyllis digging in?

I'm not 100% sure but I think that Phyllis, the Giant Tunnelling Machine of Doom, actually started digging tonight. As of Friday she was still in the position she's been in for the last couple of weeks, but now there is a constant faint machinery noise which I suspect is the start of excavations. I'll take a look tomorrow morning and see if I'm right.

The next step, once Phyllis is clear of the portal, is that the next tunnelling machine - named Ada for Ada Lovelace - will be bought up to the portal and eventually start digging. As usual there don't seem to be any official announcements, but hopefully the position will be a bit clearer tomorrow.

Phyllis remains unmoved

Correction to last night's post - the Giant Tunneling Machine of Doom still appears to be in a holding pattern, I think that what I may have heard last night was some roadworks on the A40 elevated section (the six-lane road that's just the other side of the railway.

Looking North, once Crossrail is complete, there will be eight railway lines (including Crossrail and the Hammersmith and City Line) and twelve lanes of roads (counting my own street, the A40, and the Harrow Road) before there's another building. And just beyond the first few buildings after that there's the canal. I suppose I should be grateful they didn't shove an airport there too...