***Crossrail, today announced that three organisations have been short-listed for stage two of the programme partner tendering process. The short-listed tenderers for stage two are Bechtel, Legacy 3 (a joint venture between Parsons Brinckerhoff, Balfour Beatty Management and Davis Langdon) and Transcend (a joint venture between AECOM, CH2M Hill and Nichols Group).***
Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone RoadStill trying to find out more about the 200 vehicles being delivered earlier than not expected, it was time to give the DafT press office another go. 'Is that the rail desk' we asked? 'No, replied a clipped 'Captain Speaking' voice, 'this is the Aviation desk' 'Have I dialled a wrong number?' 'No, there's no one on the Rail Desk'. 'Copy that, AvDesk. Over and out'.