Railway Surveyors Expertise
  
Railway surveying has always been of vital importance in the maintenance and construction of our railways but recent dramatic increases in traffic and the resulting pressure to expand capacity has significantly raised the profile of the railway regeneration.

More than ever before survey companies working on the railways need a solid background of experience, efficiency and expertise.

Experience

Severn Partnership has been involved with railway surveying since 1994 and has worked in railway projects all over the country from Aardgay in Scotland to Cornwall in the South West. We are experienced at working day and night on stations, embankments, tunnels, plain line, complex S&C renewals, drainage surveys…..A quick review of the other tabs in this section of our site will demonstrate our success in completing projects on the railways.

All staff are PTS trained and we are “Link-up” registered and ‘Proof Audit’ approved. We have the ability to mobilise a considerable workforce, often at short notice. We are also very used to working at night within possessions where time, or the lack of it, is an important consideration. We also benefit by having COSS qualified Senior surveyors, saving on safety costs.

Efficiency

Continual improvements to rail infrastructure all seek to add more journeys or a larger fleet of faster trains, aiming towards a seven day railway providing a continuous reliable service. This means that the efficiency and speed of our work is more important than ever before.

Investment in railway specific equipment such as the Amberg GRP system FX for rapid clearance analysis gives us the edge with efficient working methodologies.

Access to railway track and infrastructure is usually of short duration, often during the hours of darkness. With the most modern instruments available, production rates are maximised allowing staff to complete large amounts of work in a limited period.
Of course, this efficiency must be combined with strict adherence to Network Rail’s published safety standards, particularly RIMINI, work package plans and task briefings.

Expertise

While Severn Partnership employs the most up to date electronic instruments and relevant specialist equipment, we are also experienced in using traditional railway surveying techniques and have the sense to know when the traditional approach is still the best method to use.

We have used our experience of railways and surveying to develop measurement techniques which minimise access to the track. We have designed and implemented survey systems for the monitoring of movement in tunnels, bridges and embankments.

These techniques, which require virtually zero track access, are frequently used for the monitoring or rails during nearby construction work and have been accepted as good practice by Network Rail.

In approaching any rail surveying challenge we are always conscious that the art lies in is to finding good engineering solutions to measurement problems; solutions that combine “good for purpose” output with efficiency, economic and time considerations.

Examples of relevant experience include:
  • Irish Rail – 165miles of High accuracy control survey, Photogrammetry and Structure surveys (Dublin to Cork)
  • Parsons Brinckerhoff – 205 bridge structures, tunnels and signals, topographical survey and clearoute sections
  • Corus - Reading Station: building survey, elevations, track survey and platform survey
  • Network Rail secondment as Survey advisor on the A09 speed enhancement project

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Please call Nick Blenkarn or Mark Combes on 0844 880 8247 or e-mail webenquiry@severnpartnership.co.uk to discuss your project requirements.