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Great Britain's experience in field of railway infrastructure significant for Serbia

London/Belgrade, 7 February 2019

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic visited the largest infrastructure construction site in Europe during the official visit to Great Britain - the construction of the Crossrail subway in London.

Mihajlovic, who is on a two-day visit to the United Kingdom, said it is an impressive construction site, a 30-metre-long railway line under London, and specified that this project is worth more than GBP 15 billion, which is more than all infrastructure projects in Serbia.

It was important to see not only the construction of the subway, but also how the site was organised, said the Deputy Prime Minister.

The Deputy Prime Minister spoke to British colleagues about training of engineers and workers at the site.

According to Mihajlovic, the British have is a construction academy, where all contractors are trained - from the simplest to the most complex jobs.

Crossrail is a 118-kilometre-long subway, whose construction began in 2009.

The future "Elizabeth Line" in one hour will transport 24 trains in both directions, which will reduce the pressure on existing tube lines, increase capacities and improve connectivity.

It is estimated that 200 million passengers will use Crossrail annually and that transport revenues will exceed GBP 800 million only in the first year of use.