Ferrovial consortium wins 500 million pound contract to extend London underground
MADRID (Reuters) - A consortium consisting in equal parts of Spanish infrastructure company Ferrovial's Agroman subsidiary and British builder Laing O'Rourke has been awarded a contract worth 500 million pounds to extend the London underground.
Work is expected to be completed by 2020, Ferrovial said in a statement on Tuesday.
The project is to design and build the Northern Line extension from Kennington station in south London and will include the construction of two new stations and six kilometres of new tunnels.
(Reporting by Paul Day; Editing by Michael Urquhart)
