Express delivery for state-of-the-art traincare
Nothing could be more important to foundation work for Siemens’ new
£10 million traincare facility in York under construction for First TransPennine
Express than its Tubosider drainage and stormwater management system,
the first phase of which is now in place – despite being so large for local bridges
that fresh thinking was required to get it on site.
Designed to provide light maintenance, train washing, interior cleaning, toilet
servicing and refuelling for 51 new 100 mph trains, the new depot off Leeman
road in York opens late this year and will create 40 new jobs. But low 3.7 metre
bridges on both sides of the site posed an immediate challenge to contractors
C. Spencer Ltd, particularly with 4m diameter holding tanks being specified.