• Network rail fibre optic upgrade to
    boost railway safety and performance

    Part of Network Rail’s Fixed Telecoms Network
    and Global Satellite Monitoring for Railways
    programmes (FTN/GSM-R)

  • Network rail fibre optic upgrade to
    boost railway safety and performance

    Part of Network Rail’s Fixed Telecoms Network
    and Global Satellite Monitoring for Railways
    programmes (FTN/GSM-R)
A major infrastructure contract for the construction of fibre optic and copper cable duct routes, construction of base station sites and the installation of fibre optic cabling

Project Scope

The project was to upgrade Network Rail’s telecoms network. It involved the construction and installation of fibre-optic and copper cable routes and their integration with civil infrastructure. The route works were conduit systems for power and communications cables. The enabling bases were installations for carrying all the power, telecommunications equipment and monopole or mast structure.

MSD Scope

Installation of approximately 150 base stations nationwide. These were typically reinforced concrete bases that ranged in size from 3m2 to 9m x 3m x 1.2m.

MSD also installed FLI and GTL helical piled bases and on this project were one of the first contactors in the country to install a number of rapid deployment precast concrete bases, which took us a fraction of the time needed to install conventional reinforced concrete bases.

In conjunction with the base sites MSD installed new routes and refurbished existing routes to enable the installation of the fibre cable to the base stations. Over the whole project we installed in excess of 250 kilometres of fibre cabling.

Client: Network Rail.

MSD Construction (UK) Ltd
Manvers House
Pioneer Close
Wath upon Dearne
Rotherham
S63 7JZ

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