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Crossrail has announced that Andrew Wolstenholme has been appointed as its new Chief Executive

He will succeed Rob Holden, who is stepping down in mid-July, and will take up the post in September. Mr Wolstenholme is currently a director of construction company Balfour Beatty.

Legacy has been a much-overused word in recent years, particularly with large building projects like the Olympics.

So it comes as something of a surprise when one of the men in charge of the huge Crossrail project starts talking about its legacy, a full seven years before the first train is scheduled to run on its network.

The remaining Crossrail tunnelling contracts have been awarded.

The contracts, worth a combined total of £225million are for the Thames Tunnel, linking Plumstead to North Woolwich, and the Connaught Tunnel in the Royal Docks. Work on both tunnels will start early next year.

The names of the top contenders to replace Rob Holden as chief executive at Crossrail have been revealed. According to a report in the Observer a source said potential replacements include Mark Bayley of London and Continental Railways; Tony Douglas, chief executive of Abu Dhabi Ports and former boss of Heathrow airport; Howard Shiplee, director of construction at the Olympic Delivery Authority; Ian Galloway, director at CLM, the Olympics delivery partner; and Ailie MacAdam, who is overseeing the central tunnelling and stations section at Crossrail.

The Crossrail project is still on track despite the announcement that chief executive Rob Holden is to step down.

Mr Holden, who has been in the role since April 2009, will leave later this year, and the search has begun to find his successor to lead the £15billion project.

The Wharf was at City Hall as Crossrail bosses briefed the London Assembly

Your average Londoner can bang on about transport for hours, sometimes even with good reason.

When 10am rolled around at City Hall, snow jitters had stripped the London Assembly's transport committee down to a skeleton crew.

West India Dock will be partially drained in the next few weeks as Crossrail construction continues in Canary Wharf.

Piling has now been completed at the site known as Adams Place, and Crossrail has claimed work is "proceeding to schedule" as the £16billion project enters 2010.

Crossrail has pledged to move five million tonnes of earth via the river during its construction process.

The soil - which will be excavated during work on the £16billion London rail link - will be used in landscaping projects such as a 1,500-acre nature reserve at Essex's Wallasea Island.

Click here for The Wharf's gallery of the Crossrail launch event.

The seed of Crossrail was planted over a century ago. It has attracted delays, debate and dreamers imagining a London network with elbow room.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown and London Mayor Boris Johnson were among the many who saw the £15.9billion project get underway in Canary Wharf today. The Wharf was there to gauge their reactions.