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Monday 5 Oct 2015

Mine remediation works for Falkirk High station

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Scotland’s Railway: Scotland

Network Rail will shortly begin mining remediation work at Falkirk High Station in preparation for the extension of the station’s platforms.

Part of the Scottish Government-funded, £742m Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP), the work will help to deliver faster, longer and greener trains for customers on the Edinburgh Waverley-Glasgow Queen Street line from December 2016.

Over the next two months, engineers will drill and pour grout into 400 holes to the west of the station to address the presence of the old mining works within the railway corridor.

The grout will act to seal voids and holes and create a solid consistent base surface for the construction of the platform extensions. This work will be both day and night shift and unavoidably noisy for those living near the railway.

Work to set up a site compound within part of the station car park will begin on Sunday, October 11, which will lead to a temporary reduction in the number of car parking spaces available for commuters.

Drilling work will begin on October 19 and will utilise full-length double acoustic blankets on the drilling rig as well as acoustic baffling panels positioned 3m from it to minimise the noise emanating from the drilling rig.

When the mining remediation is complete, work can then begin on a four-month programme to construct the extended platforms.

Network Rail is hosting two ‘drop ins’ where the local community can come along and find out more about the work and ask any questions directly of the project team about what is happening, when and why. 

The community drop-ins will be held in Hallglen Sports Centre on Islands Crescent from 4pm – 7pm on Thursday, October 8, and Thursday, October15.  Everyone is welcome

A Network Rail spokesman said: “As we are working within the operational railway, around half of this work can only be completed safely when trains are not running which unavoidably means working at night.

“We appreciate that this work has the potential to be disruptive to the local community and we will be doing all that we can to mitigate and minimise the noise from the remediation works.”

For further information on EGIP, visit www.egip.info or follow us on twitter @NetworkRailEGIP

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Notes to Editors

Site assembly is from Sunday 11th October 2015

Drilling work begins Monday19th October

Day Shift work times   07.30am – 17.30pm

Night shift work begins on 11^th November

Night Shift work times 

Sunday Midnight – 7am   

Monday to Thursday 22.30pm – 05.00am