Contractors had been alerted to the next phases of labor on Network Rail’s £1.3bn Midland Predominant Line (MML) electrification programme.
In a prior recordsdata seek for, Network Rail has printed the principle points of a market engagement briefing, that may per chance per chance also simply snatch establish sooner than the birth of tendering for the next phases of the mission.
The programme will enable the electrical operation of recent bi-mode trains to your entire of the MML, from South Wigston to Sheffield – a 139km stretch of the line with 67 buildings.
This may per chance occasionally per chance also simply like turning in works for the Overhead Line Instruments (OLE) extension to Sheffield and Nottingham, route clearance to accommodate the OLE extension, and elevated vitality provide to toughen electrical passenger providers to Sheffield and Nottingham.
Section of the electrification programme has already been procured and is “in delivery”, comprising electrification between Kettering and South Wigston.
The next stage of procurement for the MML electrification programme is split into the next route sections:
- Route Section 2 (RS2) – South Wigston to Syston, 19.5km
- Route Section 3 (RS3) – Syston to Trent Junction, 28.7km
- Route Section 4 (RS4) – Sheet Stores Junction to Chaddesden Sidings (Derby), 15.7km
- Route Section 5 (RS5) – Trent Junction to Nottingham, 13.1km
- Route Section 6 (RS6) – Chaddesden Sidings (Derby) to Toadmoor Tunnel, 16.7km
- Route Section 7 (RS7) – Toadmoor Tunnel to London Road, 43.3km
- Route Section 8 (RS8) – London Road to Sheffield North, 2.5km
The market engagement briefing event will be held at Delight Park Stadium in Derby, and on-line as an MS Teams live event on 15 June at 10am and 1pm.
The electrification programme is a continuation of the achieved London-to-Corby electrification.
As fragment of the MML toughen, work used to be implemented final year to install unusual overhead line equipment between Bedford and Corby, as effectively as enhancements to disaster platforms and foremost work to toughen bridges on the path to kind manner for electrification between London St Pancras World and Corby.
In Also can simply, about 740m of note used to be renewed between Luton and Bedford, and making an strive out and commissioning of two unusual substations on the line has additionally been implemented as fragment of the toughen.
The 2 unusual substations are on the route between Bedford and Ampthill. They’re going to support to toughen resilience on the railway, as effectively as providing the vitality desired to enable more trains to slide in due route.
