By Brian Lysaght and Robert Hutton
Bloomberg
5 October 2007

Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave the go-ahead for a 16 billion-pound ($32 billion) rail line across London, the biggest U.K. infrastructure project since the Channel Tunnel, to ease the strain on the city's aging train network.

The railway, first proposed 18 years ago, will connect Heathrow airport with central London and then run 5 miles (8 kilometers) east to the Canary Wharf office development starting in 2017.

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