Chiltern Mainline Platform Extensions
Value £2.2m
Client: Network Rail
Duration: 14 Weeks
This design and build scheme project involved the extension of five platforms at three stations in compressed timescales within 5hr ROR possessions. The stations were High Wycombe, Princess Risborough and Beaconsfield.
Works comprised of:
Key Challenges/Successes:
The package of work was awarded with highly constrained programme aspirations from the client due to CP4 franchise commitments to the TOC Chiltern Railways.
All schemes were completed in a live station environment with maximum 5hr possessions and the entire project was completed on site in 14 weeks.
High Wycombe platform extension required the relocation of an existing DNO supply to the station by a third party which was managed by MPB directly. The new platform at High Wycombe also required the relocation of a banner repeater signal which added to the complexity of the project.
Ground conditions at Princess Risborough were such that piling would have been necessary. However, MPB worked closely with designers Atkins to develop a lightweight fill replacement strategy that allowed the scheme to be completed without the use of piles.
Chiltern
Network Rail
£2 to £5 Million
Rail
Rail platform civil engineering, drainage, concrete construction, all M&E