Scotland’s Railway bridge installation is among the biggest in Europe

Engineers in orange suits in front of huge prefabricated concrete bridge
The huge Ravenscraig bridge section ready to be installed 2023, Network Rail

Engineers in Scotland have begun an intense ten-day programme to install a 5,000-tonne bridge on the West Coast Main Line (WCML) at Ravenscraig in North Lanarkshire. The site is near Motherwell on the section of line currently out of service to allow the rebuilding of Carstairs Junction. The bridge project has been timed to coincide with that work, thereby minimising disruption to services.

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Author: Simon Walton

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