New taxi facility on heritage structures at Paddington

This paper describes how as part of the Crossrail project the some of the various areas and levels of the site were changed to provide the new facility. The condition and use of the site before the works and the historic development of each area is described first, followed by the works carried out to create a unified facility. A general view of the new works areas is shown in Figure 1.

Construction of the Crossrail station at Paddington required the relocation of the existing taxi rank from Eastbourne Terrace on the south side of the main line station. A suitable space existed on the unused parcels deck but with no clear means of access.