THE THAMESLINK PROGRAMME ISSUE 5 FEBRUARY/MARCH 2014 FREE! EVERYONE GETS HOME SAFE EVERY DAY! ALTERING LAYOUTS AT any station been installed by Balfour Beatty’s whilst it’s still operational and moving civil team based at New Cross Gate thousands of people around every day to get cables to track level to feed the is extremely demanding therefore it is new signalling systems. no surprise that the complex redevel- As well as the cable routes, major opment of London Bridge station is a modifications have been made to the real challenge for those working on the existing 1974 Westpac signalling project. with over 1000 wires to change over London Bridge station has approx- during the commissioning which MAKING imately 52 million people travelling will keep the system running until through it every year during which the new electronic Westlock system Railway Systems and Civils project becomes live in December 2014. teams from Network Rail, Costain, Bal- And finally, before the platforms four Beatty, Siemens and others not can be opened the track needs to be mentioned are working tirelessly to laid, so during the first week of Feb- redevelop. ruary the team have seen the first Prior to the start of the main works ballast trains arrive during mid week TRACKS at London Bridge station the Railway nights for 4 consecutive nights. Each Systems team diverted all the signal- night 420t of ballast has been deliv- AT LONDON BRIDGE ling and communication cables (around ered by train and then during the 60km of multi-core cable) off the foot- day it’s been dozered and compacted Ballast being bridge to allow the Costain station dropped in the team to start demolition. Continues on page 2 new track well On 25th May 2013 platform 14, 15 and 16 were taken out of use and by the end of March 2014 (less than a year later) the team will bring into use ‘What has made the first new platforms. What has made this a success is the this a success people involved and the good commu- nications that are in place between the is the people Civils and Railway Systems teams. The teams have worked together with involved’ Mark Howard, Project Manager from Costain chairing interface meetings Balfour Beatty team members as follows: Dave Read; Site Manager, Steve Collins, every 2 weeks as well as the teams Dan Johnson, undertaking weekly walk outs to Richard Watson agree works, talk through logistics and agree solutions were problems arise. Gregg Smith, Construction Man- ager for Railway Systems, Network Rail has managed the cable recover- ies and all aspects of the station sig- nalling and track interfaces with Cos- tain and has worked with contractors SRA and Balfour Beatty to recover cables and deal with other station issues such as the removal and relo- cation of station furniture which may have affected signal sighting issues for train drivers and potentially caused disruption to train services. As part of the design for the station, the Civ- ils team have The first of the new platforms at installed new cable routes in the roof canopy and under platform voids for the signalling London Bridge are due to be brought and communication copper and fibre cables to reach their destination. into use at the end of March 2014 New cable risers from the new Lon- don Bridge Equipment room have also 02 FEBRUARY/MARCH 2014 ISSUE 5 03 Continues from page 1 DURING THAMESLINK SAFETY week Skanska with Lynch Plant Hire carried out a ‘plant safety day’ which CRICKLEWOOD DEPOT was held at the Bermondsey Dive Un- der site. This was part of a week long aspiration to raise the awareness of heavy plant and construction vehi- AND SIDINGS PHASE 2 cles on sites as well as on the road. Many site operatives and office staff are not aware of the dangers work- ing with or being around heavy plant. This event gave the team a fantastic COMPLETION opportunity to get close up to plant and understand the restrictions and challenges that plant operators and Carillion team achieve a milestone for the Thameslink Programme delivery drivers have whether it is cy- clists, pedestrians or drivers that are in the vicinity. DECEMBER 2013 MARKED the successful completion of There were various types of plant the North sidings at Cricklewood. on display including a 360 excava- As part of the Thameslink programme of works the North tor, forward tipping dumper and an 8 sidings at Cricklewood previously comprised of 6 stabling wheeled tipper lorry. The sessions per roads for 8 car trains. The phase 2 works extended these sid - machine lasted for about 15 minutes ings to accommodate 6 stabling roads each capable of accom- each and all involved site personnel PLANT 1 modating an 8 car and 12 car train. Works also included the getting the chance to see the real dan- establishment of a new Depot reception road off the Up slow gers and the view from the operators mainline. cab. Over 50 people attended the ses- sions and included both site and the office based staff. There was real- ly good feedback from everyone with SAFETY DAY most being amazed at the many re- strictions and regulations now in place 2 for plant operators. Article by: Feila Scally, HS&E Manager, Skanska to make a stable layer for the new track. This has all been completed safely with trains using the other platforms. All of which needed to Work commenced late 2012 with site set up prior to site ‘Chance be done with care so as not to affect clearance and construction through to December 2013. the waterproofing on the deck. In Prior to starting work the team had to remove over 5000 fact 200mm of ballast needed to be tonnes of wood waste from the site, This was much to the to see laid before the dozer could even go relief of the local fire brigade who were concerned about on it! the fire risk it presented and the risk of closure of the And not to forget all the other A406 which is adjacent to the site Site ready for work the real work that has gone on prior to this but critical in getting the project to the current status include: dangers’ l Installation of the protection deck, removal of listed train shed roof and columns and deconstruction of deck. Skanska and Lynch team l 7 major signalling stages to divert rail- way systems equipment away from demolition site l Several utility services diverted around the London bridge station footprint to ARTUR DYBAS IS our regular night shift Artur pictured next allow column piling including gas, water, concrete pump driver, he is a calm oper- to the concrete pump on St Thomas electricity and 3rd party data ator who works long hours and always Street, London carriers. delivers an excellent job. His skill in han- Bridge l Construction of arch 77 lift and stairs. dling the pump is demonstrated here l HV cable diversions. when after completing up stand walls l London Bridge maintenance delivery on the bridge deck he manoeu- unit reallocated to a brand new fully vred the boom over the deck functional building in the middle of down the side and under London. to pour this manhole l Blocks A-F demolition. surround. l Property management and London Artur comes from Dugeon relocated. 4 VIEW Poland and operates l Foundations, columns , crossheads and 3 this 44 metre pump bridge beams to support the new tracks December 2013, Job done and on target! and his ambition is to Once the site had been cleared the old sidings were The team have now started work on the South sidings FROM THE be the full time driver A WELL DONE TO stripped out and the old formation works dug out and where they are scrapping out the old infrastructure and of his companies 62 EVERYONE INVOLVED! relayed in preparation for the installation of new rail remodelling it to accommodate a 24 car length washer metre boom pump. infrastructure which included Overhead line equipment, road with a bi directional carriage washing machine, and Artur works regularly Article by : Lee Roberts, Programme buffer stops and drivers walkways the length of the 5 x 24 car length stabling roads. on the night shift and is Manager (Construction), Network Rail extended roads. All to be operational by April 2015 liked and respected and is part of the team that makes up the London Bridge Station Re-development Night Shift. Any ideas or suggestions email [email protected] Inset: Concrete being pumped to the deck of Editor, Sharon Fink, Health & Safety Manager, Network Rail PUMPArticle by : Mark Bolton, Nightshift Manager, Costain the new platforms at London Bridge 04 FEBRUARY/MARCH 2014 ISSUE 5 05 tors, interface with cyclists/pedestri- Main picture and inset: Lynch Plant ans, FORS requirements, speed require- team explain the ments and hazard spotting/reporting as Examples of workings and well as maintenance of the plant itself. dirty PPE safety controls to Presentations were also delivered in the students the lecture theatre by Skanska focus- ing on new innovations arising out of industy fatalities such as Sky Siren, Fully Automatic Quick Hitches and 360 degree vision accessories for plant. STANLEY Network Rail presented the lifesaving rules and why these had been imple- mented and shared the recent cam- paign about exclusion zones includ- ing sharing the Hope Station accident (with CCTV footage). Hope Station CCTV footage showing operative being crushed against platform by On Track Plant (operative was lucky to escape with no serious injuries) Background very fine cut can be hard Guidance Please ensure you are in a KNIVESFollowing a recent site to stop bleeding.