Slender steel speeds bridge deck

摘要

It will take until the middle of 2016 before passengers travelling through Reading Station realise the full benefits of its ￡644 million upgrade. For Bam Nuttall project manager Mark Hepburn though, the eye is drawn by a rather more looming deadline - a 10 day rail blockade at Christmas. He and the project team working on the ￡l2.5m Reading Station civil improvement Package 2 will have just 50 hours of that blockade to remove the two existing box-girder decks that currently enable trains to cross over Caversham Road on the western approach to the station and slide in the new section.