Slope Stability

East West Rail Project, UK

PROJECT SUMMARY

PROJECT NAME: ’s upgrade of the line between , , and

PROJECT DATE: February 2020

CLIENT: CC Ground Investigations Ltd

CONTRACTOR : Network Rail

OVERVIEW MONITORING PRODUCTS USED The project will provide Six piezometers were installed in VWP-3000 Standard piezometer new journey opportunities between boreholes – three at the top of the Used to monitor pore water pressure. central, southern and western embankment & three at the base. England. Wi-SOS 480 VW Single Channel Geosense engineers provided two Node The development – in two phases – days training on setting up the Logger for wireless connection of will introduce direct rail passenger Wi-SOS Gateway & single channel the vibrating wire piezometer to the services between Bedford and VW Nodes, using the G-log App to Gateway. , Milton Keynes and Oxford, connect the Nodes to the Gateway. and Milton Keynes and London The Wi-SOS Gateway was set up Wi-SOS 480 Gateway with sim card Marylebone via Aylesbury. for each borehole – Setting up the & solar panel kit Phase 2 of the Western Section seess engineering units by in-putting Central data acquisition logger the upgrade and reconstruction of the base readings & selecting the fitted with SIM card to provide GPRS existing but no longer in use sections correct calculation & renaming connection for remote access via web of line that link Bedford with Bicester, each borehole so they are easily browser. and Milton Keynes with Aylesbury. identifiable when logging onto the Gateway to view the data. This improvement project will mean that passengers and freight services The Wi-SOS wireless system could can make the journey between then be accesses remotely meaning Bedford on the Midland Mainline no need to travel to site to download and Bicester on the Chiltern Mainline the data. without needing to travel via London. The client was happy with the ease It will also link Milton Keynes on the of the Wi-SOS setup and would be West Coast Mainline with London happy to use the system for future Marylebone on the Chiltern Mainline projects. via Aylesbury.

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