A rail company has completed four major projects including the repair of a historic tunnel. Network Rail engineers have repaired brickwork and sprayed concrete along 1,282 metres of the 1851-built Ore tunnel near Hastings to keep the railway infrastructure inside it safe from water damage. The work began on October 19 and was completed on Sunday.
It will improve reliability for Southern passengers along the Marshlink route which connects Hastings with Ashford. Another part of the major projects was installation of a new signalling system in the Tulse Hill, Peckham Rye and Crystal Palace areas of south London to improve reliability for Southern, Thameslink and London Overground passengers. The new system replaces old equipment which had controlled the movement of trains in the areas since the early 1980s.
Lucy McAuliffe, Network Rail’s Sussex route director, said: “It's vital that we continue to invest to modernise our assets and give passengers the delay-free journeys they expect and I want to thank our teams for the work they’ve carried out as well as passengers whose journeys were affected.”.