GATWICK STATION RE-DEVELOPMENT, £31M, MAY 2012 - MAY 2014 Gatwick station handles over 15.4 million train passengers annually. This major station reconstruction delivered new 12-car platform 7 to address a bottleneck in Brighton Mainline services ; passenger circulation was improved on platforms 5 and 6 by replacing a stairway with an escalator and lift; the concourse was refurbished with better facilities and circulation. A 1,000m of new plain track was commissioned to serve the new platform 7 and local area signalling was upgraded.
A key challenge was keeping the station operational throughout the works. As a result we were required to conduct noisy activities at night. Although there were no residents to disturb, noisy daytime operations would have drowned out critical passenger announcements, especially against the noise of low level planes. We assisted NR’s Logistics Interface Manager in their public interface role by erecting acoustic hoarding and posted information notices clearly for the public, as well as remaining available to answer queries. Weekly Client & Stakeholder Meetings addressed traffic planning and logistics.
A major engineering challenge on this project was the structural columns sup- porting the station’s concourse directly conflicted with the new platform 7 track alignment. Removing these columns was a delicate operation that involved sup- porting the 500T operational concourse on temporary works during the transfer onto its new columns.
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