COMPANY NEWS
£40m Bakerloo Line link contract awarded
has announced. The tunnel will link the new Crossrail station and the Bakerloo Line platforms.
The contract to design and build the Paddington link tunnel has been awarded to the Costain/ Skanska JV, London Underground
LU used the ICE procurement process – Innovative Contractor Engagement – which assesses the bids made by contractors for the value that their proposal adds to the project, and ‘compensates’ good ideas by losing bidders. It was also used on the Bank Station
Upgrade contract awarded in 2013.
David Waboso, LU's director of capital programmes, said: “This is the second successful application of the ICE procurement approach, providing both our customers and our business with significantly enhanced value. Increasingly, ICE is allowing the market to provide us with better value infrastructure
than traditional approaches.”
The losing bidders were Dragados and a consortium of Morgan Sindall and Bemo Tunnelling.
Simon Wright, Crossrail programme director, called the new link an “integral part” of the final railway. It will be completed by the end of 2018, in time for Crossrail opening.
Shipment of Hitachi’s first Class 800 train for IEP begins
The shipment of the first completed pre-series Class 800 train for the Department for Transport’s Intercity Express Programme (IEP) has begun, Hitachi Ltd has confirmed.
Unveiled in November 2014, the Class 800 is now being shipped from Kasado Works in Yamaguchi, Japan. The train should arrive in the UK in March, and will then be equipped with sensors for testing
from April. Agility Trains, the special-purpose company that will own the trains, will provide the fleet to the operating companies.
Alistair Dormer, global CEO of Hitachi Rail, said: “After unveiling this train in November last year, I am immensely proud that we today see the first shipment leave our factory in Kasado.
“Our engineering teams in the UK
and Japan have been working exceptionally hard with all stakeholders to ensure that this train will be ready for testing in the UK from April this year onward.”
Hitachi is building a train factory in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. The £82m plant will be completed in summer 2015, with train production to start in 2016. Recruitment for the factory’s 730 new jobs has just started.
Industry figures featured in New Year Honours List
Rail industry figures featured prominently on the New Year Honours list, including two Network Rail executives and Michèle Dix from Transport for London (TfL), who was made a CBE for her services to the transport industry.
Dix is the managing director for planning at TfL and has worked for the organisation since 2000.
At Network Rail, David Ward, route managing director for the south east, was appointed OBE for services to the rail industry, and Patrick Hallgate, route managing director for the Western route, was appointed MBE for services to the economy of the south west.
Other names on the honours list include David Middleton, chief executive of Transport Scotland,
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who was made a CBE for services to the civil service and transport in Scotland. John Thomas was given a British Empire Medal (BEM), for services to the National Railway Museum and Sharon Willett, a customer service assistant at Newark station, was made MBE for services to rail passengers.
A former chief superintendent of the British Transport Police (BTP), David Wildbore, was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal for distinguished service.
Wildbore joined BTP as a chief superintendent from the Met Police in 2007, and planned BTP’s operations at the 2012 Olympics. He also worked on counter- terrorism, public order, football, events and civil contingencies. He retired in June 2014 after 36 years’ service.
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