WORKSHOPS, DEPOTS & LIFTING EQUIPMENT
Preparing for the IEP fleets
VolkerFitzpatrick is building four depots for the Agility Trains consortium for the maintenance of the new Class 800 Super Express fleets for the East Coast and Great Western main lines. RTM got a progress update from contracts manager Paul Lilley.
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is on a cargo ship making its way over to
the UK for delivery in March (see page 12), so we thought it a good time for a progress check that will maintain the trains.
experience in rail depot projects, including the award-winning Reading train care depot four depots.
The North Pole depot in west London, a former Eurostar depot built in the early 1990s that had not been used for a number of years, is already complete and has been handed over to the client as a working depot. It will house Japan soon.
existing sidings, is a smaller scheme due for near Bristol is about 50% complete and due for handover towards the end of this year.
in May 2014. The site has been used as a railway depot for more than 100 years. It will
Lilley told us: “At the moment we’re in a design stage and we’re carrying out the demolition works of some existing buildings in the area. We’re looking to complete the design by June 2015.”
Timeline and partners
Piling work will just be starting as you receive this magazine, while remediation of the existing ground begins in February.
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in March, while May sees work on the CET (controlled emission toilets) related facilities, wheel lathes and train wash.
Overall completion is scheduled for August 2016.
include Mechan (see page 73), Wilcomatic and Airquick (who also provided the fuelling, CET and other systems on the Reading depot), while the other depots are working with Garrandale. The wheel lathes at all depots are
Location and relationships
Access for the depot works is down Ten Pound Walk, where there is temporary widening to system will be used on site for monitoring hours and training and induction. Everyone entering the site uses an access card system and biometrics.
We asked Lilley how much of the technology and processes being used at the depot are tried- and-tested, and how much is innovative.
depots we’ve gone for in-situ concrete for the pits within the maintenance building, we are
“On the access gantries, we’re going to increase the steel work from the access gantries coming down the sides of these pits onto the roof to support the roof. That means you can slim down the steelwork in the roof.”
had a simpler bolt-on train weighing system, Lilley said.
“Our relationship has been brilliant with the clients, they’re very much hands-on and it is
safe to say that we’re working hand-in-hand
Skills
academy with the CITB (Construction Industry and Lilley said through collaboration with
some local colleges to get some apprentices on board.
“We’ll be doing visits to schools, we’ll be getting some day-release schemes set up, and we’re going to work with the Prince’s Trust in the area as well – they have a 12-week programme.
“We’re going to continue it throughout. What some people look on as ‘excellence’, we’re trying to set as ‘standard’. We want to make sure we’re leaving a legacy behind, not just building a scheme and moving on.”
Construction provides amazing opportunities locally. We are passionate about making a construction projects. We have already made quality training for students which meets
Lilley suggested that, as happened with the Ramsgate depot, construction apprentices could stay on and become part of the team at
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