Hartlepool to have a platform reinstated as funding now confirmed

[td97]

There's an update from the p-way subcontractor on LinkedIn. Extracts below, but photo only accessible through the link.
Sounds like a very bare bones budget but they've made the best of it.

(23)-WK05 – Hartlepool Final Quality Tamp The KGJ Price Rail Team… | KGJ Price Rail Ltd

(23)-WK05 – Hartlepool Final Quality Tamp The KGJ Price Rail Team successfully completed the final quality tamp through Hartlepool Station in WK05 (weekend). This will allow our client Story Contracting to undertake the platform coper installs commencing in WK05. As a summary of these works...

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WK05 – Hartlepool Final Quality Tamp
The KGJ Price Rail Team successfully completed the final quality tamp through Hartlepool Station in WK05 (weekend). This will allow our client Story Contracting to undertake the platform coper installs commencing in WK05.

As a summary of these works, KGJ Price were contracted to:-
Ø Provide all aspects of Permanent Way services.
Ø Remove the existing jointed track through platform 3;
Ø Scarify the ballast, fettle and spot re-sleeper the timber check rail panels;
Ø Re-lay the existing jointed track to the new platform alignment;
Ø Average of 150mm lifts and 270mm slues all on a tight <250m Radius;
Ø Undertake the Core works during a 54-hour blockade during WK51 March 2023;
Ø Final Quality Tamp undertaken in WK05.

Due to the late cancellation of the eng trains for the Core works, KGJ Price Rail re-planned the works utilising RRV’s and boxes. Our Rail Delivery Manager attended meetings with Story Contracting and NR to provide confidence to the route that the risk from such a late change was being managed and implemented in a safe and controlled manner. The QSRA was approved 2 weeks before the Core works with successful delivery in WK51.

This project has been a fantastic example of ECI, clear communication and collaborative teamwork to deliver a safe and successful package of work. Thank you to our team and supply chain!!!!

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A good job from start to finish, anyone who has relaid jointed track on a tight radius curve will know it’s not the easiest - made even more difficult by having to reuse the same materials! What’s not detailed below is the non scoped work that we competed to leave a better railway as a whole: 1. Removed a rail defect by being smart with our closure rail use / location 2. Removed some long standing wet beds thus improving track quality and less maintenance intervention 3. Used excess top stone to top up the adjacent line and then brushed it which has removed a CRT risk for the maintainer. A by product of removing the CRT risk on the adjacent line is that it looks like both lines have been relaid - finishing the project off aesthetically to the general public to match the soon to be complete lifts, stairs and platform. During these times of increased financial pressure on maintenance budgets it’s these little things that a bit of attention to detail and a bit more effort can achieve a big improvement to the railway as a whole.

 

[Coolzac]

Fantastic.

I think it's great - it will open up opportunities for more trains in the future, as well as removing a passing place where delays can occur/get worse. Let's hope they can get it done by July as planned!

I just hope they give Middlesbrough a third platform too, in the near future.

 

[jkkne]

Details of the improved service below

Hartlepool to get extra Newcastle-Middlesbrough trains once new platform is complete

Rail bosses have outlined further details about how they plan to improve services once a multi-million-pound station revamp is completed.

www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk

The Newcastle-Middlesbrough line – which stops at Horden, Hartlepool, Seaton Carew and Billingham stations – will increase from a train every hour to three trains every two hours later this year.

Should help with match day trains for Sunderland at least

 

[swt_passenger]

Details of the improved service below

Hartlepool to get extra Newcastle-Middlesbrough trains once new platform is complete

Rail bosses have outlined further details about how they plan to improve services once a multi-million-pound station revamp is completed.

www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk

Should help with match day trains for Sunderland at least

The timings are already in RTT and were discussed in a separate thread here:

New Newcastle <> Middlesbrough express

Looks like Northern are introducing an Express service between Newcastle and Middlesbrough starting in July. There are 6 Southbound & 6 Northbound services departing every 2 hours, calling at Thornaby, Hartlepool & Sunderland only Newcastle departures:- 08.06, 10.17, 12.15, 14.18, 16.17 & 18.20...

www.railforums.co.uk

 

[Freightmaster]

On the subject of 'reinstating third platforms at stations in the Teesside area',
what has happened to the (arguably more useful) plan to add a additional platform
on the goods line at Middlesbrough? Is that no longer happening?




MARK

 

[Harvester]

Was this reinstated ‘up’ platform at Hartlepool station back in use in July as planned?

 

[3RDGEN]

Was this reinstated ‘up’ platform at Hartlepool station back in use in July as planned?

No still to be opened. The Northern December Timetable announcement says the additional services will run once open, as it did in May.

https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/travel/timetables/timetable-change

Middlesbrough and Newcastle: The additional two hourly service being introduced once platform work is complete at Hartlepool will be part of the December 2023 timetable

 

[Pinza-C55]

The increased Sunderland - Middlesbrough service will be a good thing but it will have the negative effect of adding yet more trains to Sunderland stations 2 (physical) platforms. The new station building is now complete but the restricted platform and track layout has not been addressed, nor the dismal platform level environment which resembles an underground car park.

 

[ainsworth74]

I must admit I'm curious why it's slipped so much. The original plan was for it to be open in time for the Tall Ships at the start of July but now it may well not be until into the next timetable period!

 

[rg177]

Currently on a GC service looking at the new platform now.

The platform and bridge look to be essentially completed - the drains on the platform just need gaps filling in.

It looks like it mostly just needs the canopy adding. The frame is in situ, but no actual canopy just yet.