Rail Engineer – July 2019

Firmed up
The contract for the second phase
of the IEP programme, including
the running of trains on the ECML,
was finalised in April 2014, allowing
the construction of the Doncaster
depot to begin. The main contractors
were VolkerFitzpatrick, on behalf of
Hitachi Rail Europe, with RPS Group
acting as the project architects. Costs for
the depot works was estimated at about
£80 million.
There has been a railway depot located
on the site since 1876; originally in the
form of a 12-road steam loco shed
built by the Great Northern Railway.
Modernisation came in the mid 1950s,
and, more recently, the facility had
become the Doncaster Carr DB Schenker
maintenance depot, which was closed in
April 2014.
Work to construct the new Hitachi
maintenance facility started the following
December with the demolition of all
existing buildings, the excavation of
contaminated soil and the removal of a
multitude of vaulted brick arches that had
supported the original Doncaster Carr
steam sheds on the soft ground (the word
carr meaning an area of swamp or fen
woodland).

After a century of servicing locomotives,

the ground was, unsurprisingly, found

to be heavily contaminated. Rather

than being transported away, this was

successfully treated on site and it was later

re-used within the scheme.

Taking the place of the brick arches

to support the new 11,000m^2  rail

maintenance shed and its ancillary

buildings, a total of 2,250 CFA (continuous

flight auger) piles were sunk. Steelwork,

totalling over 1,000 tonnes, for the three

main buildings was supplied and installed

by Caunton Engineering of Nottingham.

Some 26,000m² of cladding was needed

to complete the structure of the buildings.

In total it’s reckoned that about 2,

people worked on the project and that £

million was spent on locally sourced parts

and services from 37 local suppliers.

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• RAILCAR LIFTING JACKS


• BOGIE/EQUIPMENT DROPS


• TRAVERSERS


• TURNTABLES


• BOGIE WORKSHOP
  MACHINES


• UNDER CAR
  EQUIPMENT HANDLING
  
  
  • LASER MEASURING
  
  
  • SANDBOX FILLING
  
  
  • SHUNTERS
  
  
  • EXHAUST EXTRACTION
  
  
  • UNDER FLOOR
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