West Drayton S&T and OHLE Works Complete

We are pleased to announce that the S&C Renewals work at West Drayton have been completed with no accidents or incidents. This is the first High Speed Handback at 90mph under the S&C South Alliance.

Works included the renewal of 8284A/B Pts and associated S&T and OHLE works and the site has been fully welded and stressed. Utilising our progressive assurance for track engineering process we have been able to spate our 50mph TSR and hand the track back at 90mph (Line speed) We would like to thank the team that delivered these works, on time and on budget, a great job was done by all.

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