The facts
Client: Network Rail
Location: Nationwide
Project value: £1.7b
Sector: Transport
Services provided: Civil
Engineering, Structural Engineering, Electrical Engineering,
Geotechnical Engineering
The project
Network Rail is implementing a new £1.7bn railway
communications system which will provide significant performance
and safety benefits to the railway.
Using Global System for Mobile Communications –
Railways (GSM-R) technology, it will for the first time provide a
single, national system of secure train driver-to-signaller
communication. GSM-R requires the construction of approximately
2000 radio masts and base stations across the entire rail network
of which Capita Symonds are tasked with providing the Geotechnical
Services for the project.