Delayed train link Crossrail may not open for two years in yet another failure for Transport Secretary Chris Grayling

LONG-DELAYED Crossrail may not open to passengers for another two years – in another failure for Chris Grayling.

The new railway line, running from east to west under London, should have started running last Christmas but the opening was put back a year.

Britain's Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has already been dubbed 'Failing Grayling' over previous debacles — Britain’s Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has already been dubbed ‘Failing Grayling’ over previous debacles

Now it is feared the £18billion link – officially known as the Elizabeth Line – may not be ready for another two years as testing continues.

The BBC said it had been told that the “best case scenario” was that trains would start running next spring, and the “worst case is the spring of 2021”.

It is claimed that the testing of trains and signals is “proving more difficult than was first thought”.

Delays to Crossrail, jointly paid for by the Department for Transport and Transport for London, are yet another blow for the Transport Secretary, dubbed “Failing Grayling”.

He was blamed for wasting £13.8m on a ferry firm that had no ships, then had to pay out £33m to Eurotunnel over the way the deal was done.

Millions of passengers suffered months of disruption after a botched timetable change last year that the DfT should have seen coming.

And he had to bring the East Coast Mainline back into public control after Virgin Trains East Coast ran out of money, with MPs saying his department had encouraged

private firms to bid too much money for the franchise.