The selected consortium comprises Skanska, Colas Rail, Aecom and Mott MacDonald. These companies will work in alliance with Network Rail, setting up an integrated team, sharing risk and reward with the client.
The Wessex Capacity Programme involves bringing the Waterloo International Terminal back into use for domestic train services, increasing the length of some platforms at London Waterloo Station, alterations to the track, signalling, communications, buildings and civils infrastructure on the Wessex Route and at Waterloo, Vauxhall, Clapham Junction, Richmond, Wimbledon and Surbiton stations.
A quarter of the value of the works is accounted for by construction of a £100m flyover at Woking.
Completion is scheduled for April 2021.
Waterloo International, pictured above, was designed by architect Nick Grimshaw and built by Bovis for £120m but had a short life. It opened in 1994 as the London terminus for Eurostar international train services. It was closed in 2007, after just 13 years of service, when the High Speed 1 Channel tunnel rail link opened and St Pancras and Stratford become the London stations for Eurostar.
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