Invensys Rail awarded Reading Western Mainlines signaling contract

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Network Rail has awarded the £28 million (US$44.6 million) signaling contract for the Reading Western Mainlines program in Great Britain to Invensys Rail. The scope of the overall program covers the remodeling of the Reading Station Area from Sonning to Pangbourne, a new train care depot and four new platforms, which will provide increased capacity at and through the station. Over the four year contract period, Invensys will be responsible for the design, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of the signaling works, including new LED signals, gantries and posts and new lineside equipment. The contract award follows the success of the Reading Enabling Project, an intensive 27-month program, which saw control of Reading Station transferred to three WESTLOCK computer-based interlockings at the new Thames Valley Signaling Control Center at Didcot. One of these will be remodeled as part of the Reading Southern Lines signaling project, which will be commissioned over Christmas 2011. David Attmere, senior project manager at Invensys Rail said, "We're absolutely delighted to have been awarded this contract, following the work that we have already completed for the Reading Remodeling program. The same core team will deliver this next program of work, remaining co-located on site with Network Rail. This arrangement has worked extremely well and has undoubtedly contributed to the success of the project to date. We're now looking forward to working closely with our Network Rail colleagues to deliver this next challenging and technically complex program of work." The first major commissioning of the Reading Western Mainlines project will deliver increased capacity at Reading Station and will take place over Easter 2013; the final commissioning is scheduled for August 2015.

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