Rail Projects 2
Wolverton Embankment
Client: Birse Rail Value: £350,000 Duration: 12 weeks
Slope stabilisation including soil nails, site clearance, slope protection, earthworks and drainage. The project also required track-side monitoring and safety critical work.
Hornsmill Embankment, Hertford Loop
Client: May Gurney Value: £1.5m Duration: 10 weeks
Use of five long-reach soil nailing rigs to secure 1km of a failing 25m high embankment which was suffering from deep seated slip. Installation of 56,000 linear meters of soil nails, between 4m and 15m long, together with 20,000m² of geotextile netting.
Mellis Embankment, Suffolk
Client: John Martin Construction Value: £150,000 Duration: 6 weeks
Construction of a gabion basket wall to create a cess walkway which enabled installation of soil nails from within the Green Zone to stabilise the failing embankment, without any track possession, allowing train speed restrictions to be lifted.
