North London Railway Infrastructure Project (NLRIP)
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North London Railway Infrastructure Project (NLRIP) Project Background North London Railway Infrastructure Project (NLRIP) For many years the North London Line (NLL) was ‘London’s forgotten railway’, perceived as ‘shabby, unreliable, unsafe and overcrowded’. The Client need for improvement became all the more pressing when in July 2005 London Overground London won the bid for the 2012 Olympic Games, as the line was a key Location route to the Olympic Park at Stratford. London, UK In February 2009, London Overground and Network Rail signed an Start Date agreement to deliver the North London Railway Infrastructure Project 2009 (NLRIP) to design and implement their agreed joint proposals to address the immediate issues on the route and accommodate future End Date traffic growth. The two year programme of works was funded by London 2011 Overground, Network Rail and the Olympic Delivery Authority with Duration Network Rail and London Overground forming a partnership to manage 27 months this complex and challenging project. Contract Value The project won a number of awards and commendations including £350m being voted Project of the Year at the National Rail Awards 2011. Services Provided Whole railway upgrade, programme management, timetabling, railway performance & whole life cost analysis For more information please visit www.networkrailconsulting.com Scope of Works This complex project, which took 3.5 diverting a Victorian sewer running maintenance of existing capacity for million person hours to complete, under and parallel to the original freight traffic (four trains per hour) included: 1800’s track into a new and extension of the East London Line deeper alignment upgrading 4 stations to Highbury and Islington to create extensive cutting wall an interchange with the North lengthening 16 platforms stabilisation works London Line replacing 69 sets of points planning 850 possessions. infrastructure to enable longer installing and commissioning passenger trains to run 200 new signals Key Project Outputs greater reliability and better closing 4 signal boxes and The project created a rejuvenated, connections for the 2012 Games. transferring control to an integrated modern, efficient railway, serving both electronic control centre passenger and freight on a key part of London’s overground rail network. The laying more than of 200km of key outputs were: signalling cable a more frequent passenger service: laying 10km of new track four trains per hour during peak installing or renewing 14km of periods on each of the Stratford- overhead line Richmond and Stratford-Clapham Junction routes, providing eight trains an hour between Willesden Junction and Stratford For more information please visit www.networkrailconsulting.com.