Major work to replace a Victorian drainage culvert beneath the railway in Aylesbury is now complete to improve future journeys for passengers and freight services.
Impressive aerial footage and photos released shows how engineers completely dug up the railway by Aylesbury station to replace the drainage system which connects to the nearby canal basin.
Faults found in the structure earlier this year* caused repeated short-notice closures of the line and major disruption for passengers.
Now Network Rail has permanently replaced the brick-built culvert with a modern equivalent, trains will be able to run normally in future.
Over a 12 day railway closure, Network Rail worked with its contractor Murphy to:
- Remove track and the old brick-built drainage culvert
- Install a new 18-section pre-cast concrete culvert using a 300 tonne crane
- Replace 700 metres of rail and 85 sleepers
- Upgrade three sets of points which are movable sections of track, allowing trains to move from one line to another.
The railway between Aylesbury Vale Parkway and Amersham reopened to passenger trains over the weekend (Saturday 19 August) after the work to remove the damaged brick-built structure and replace it with the new modular pre-cast concrete culvert.
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