This the fourth of five major Network Rail contracts to be let in preparation for Crossrail services. Carillion, BAM and Osborne are also already on board with contracts.
Balfour Beatty’s Crossrail ‘west outer’ track infrastructure contract includes:
- Detailed design, installation and commissioning of new upgraded tracks
- Track lowering under a number of bridges to enable clearance for the overhead lines for the new electric trains
- Civil works related to bridge strengthening and drainage
- Provision of a new stabling sidings area for Crossrail trains at Maidenhead, and
- Minor overhead line equipment and electrical upgrade works.
The staged programme of works will start in summer 2013 with completion by summer 2017.
Jorge Mendonça, Network Rail’s Crossrail programme director, said: “Network Rail is undertaking a major upgrade of the existing rail network for Crossrail, including a significant programme of track renewals as well as station improvements. Crossrail will transform public transport, making it quicker and easier for people to get to destinations across London and the southeast.”
Network Rail is responsible for the design, development and delivery of the parts of Crossrail that are on the existing network. The work includes upgrading 43 miles of track as well as improving 27 stations from Maidenhead in the west to Abbey Wood and Shenfield in the east.
A separate contract will be awarded covering the inner section of the Great Western Main Line (GWML) between West Drayton and Paddington. This is planned to be awarded later this year.
The three contracts previously let by Network Rail on the GWML for Crossrail are:
- Carillion has the main civils contract to build a new, larger flyover at Stockley in Hillingdon, allowing Crossrail services to operate to and from Heathrow.
- BAM has secured the civils contract to construct a new dive-under (a rail underpass) and associated track work at Acton Freight Yard in Ealing.
- Osborne has the contract for the signalling civils enabling works for the West Drayton to Maidenhead section.
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