Preparing for Christmas

Network Rail has a Southern Region construction partnership with Nuttall. Details are given of the partnership. This partnership has led to the early involvement of Nuttall in plans to reconstruct an under-strength rail bridge in Surrey, UK. The bridge carries two uplines of the main four-track London to Guildford line over the River Wey and under the M25 motorway adjacent to the Basingstoke canal. Deck replacement is not due until Christmas 2005, but Nuttall has already submitted the Form A document setting out an outline design based on its proposed construction method. The existing wrought iron and timber bridge will be replaced with a steel plate deck with inverted T beams, which will be positioned by a Kirow crane or mobile crane. Access for a mobile crane will be affected by a 132 kV cable supplying Guildford and by an existing footbridge.