Latest update

February 2026

The team has continued to make great progress with the remaining work, as the project begins to descale and reach its final few months.

HS Carlsteel

Throughout the month, HS Carlsteel’s works have included:

• strengthening to crossboxes B12A and D12C
• installation of M30 jacking bolts at B12A, via a MEWP (mobile elevated working platform)

Taziker

Taziker’s works throughout the month have included:

• internal painting within Lines B, C and D and within Pier 13 crossboxes
• external painting works at Span 19

Palmers

Palmers’ activities throughout February included Pier 13 cladding access scaffold installation.

Both Span 19 and Span 15 scaffolding has also been dismantled, with rules of the route working, with temporary restrictions on train operations put in place for maintenance and engineering works, across the weekends of the 8 February, 15 February, and 22 February to allow for the works to be completed around the railway with minimal interruption.

Other works

Reinstatement works to Salts’ land has been ongoing, including the installation of the bollards and concreting.

Wingate have removed power at the North Transition and Pier 13 scaffolding, as we continue to demobilise within these areas.;

Mistras carried out UT testing on the beams at Span 10, externally via a MEWP and within Box 18 internally. Both areas were also paint tested by PIL.

Page last updated: 3 March 2026