Cabling - A160 A180 Immingham Bypass

Neary Rail were contracted to install over 7000 metres of new lineside cabling to enable OSL Rail to divert the existing lineside cables onto a temporary suspension bridge. This allowed the new bypass rail over road bridge to be installed over Christmas 2015 by Costain.
Cable drums varied greatly with the smallest being less than 500mm in diameter and the largest standing over 5 metres high and weighing more than 5000kg.
For the larger cable drums Neary Rail utilised a specialist HIAB crane vehicle to transport the cables from the stores to site and then RRVs with trailer mounted cable frames to run out the cables lineside, all within a Saturday night shift.
The smaller cables were installed on days, working fenced or separated from open lines, using our cable pulling teams and Neary hiab wagon, cable jacks, frames and rollers.