Case Study
Gospel Oak
Trusted to deliver Case study // Gospel Oak CLIENT CONTRACT VALUE DATE COMPLETE Murphy Group £12.9m February 2017 THE CHALLENGE The Gospel Oak to Barking electrification programme is a Transport for London funded programme to electrify one of the few remaining non-electrified routes in London. One particular challenge was Pretoria Avenue Bridge 57, which contains a Victorian main sewer leaving only 200mm available to lower the track, demanding exceptional engineering control and skilled excavation by our plant operators. WHAT WE DID Stobart delivered five track lowering schemes totalling 5km of track and including 1.4km of new slab track, along with 3km of new drainage. We also replaced 125 existing IBJs to facilitate the change to a modular signalling system. Two track form sol