Croy weather resilience work

Train services into Glasgow Queen Street will be affected on Sunday, April 16. Passengers can check their journey at ScotRail

To carry out the work safely and to minimise disruption to services, engineers will complete some of the works at night.
In addition, here is some important information that station users may find useful.

• A section of Croy station car park will be used as a compound throughout the project.
• Train services into Glasgow Queen Street will be affected on Sunday, April 16. Passengers can check their journey at ScotRail.
• Our teams will require access to the footpath/cycle from Dullatur to Croy station. This will result in closures of the route from early April until mid-July and then again from late September until late November due to the nature of the work being carried out at these times, including deconstructing the old boundary wall.
  
  We appreciate this may cause an inconvenience to some passengers, neighbours, pedestrians and cyclists, we wish to reassure you that we will not disrupt public access for any longer than is necessary and we thank those affected for their patience and understanding during these times.

Our teams are busy on site, here's a look at some of our hard work so far.

We're working around-the-clock, making sure everything is nice and tidy line side by removing overgrown vegetation.

We've also started drilling to install the bottom anchors to secure the rock netting.

And some of old boundary wall has been removed along the embankment.

Since our last update, the following works have been ongoing...

• Devegetation of the cutting slope on the golf course side of the line – now approximately 90% complete.

Installation of the bottom anchors to the rock cutting on the golf course side

Removal of the old boundary wall along the top of the cutting slope on the same side which should hopefully be completed over the coming weekend.

We are hoping to commence with the deveg works to the slope on the quarry side of the line from next week.

At the weekend, our teams commenced with the installation of soil nails. This had to be done using a long-reach excavator sitting on the footpath which runs alongside the golf course.

To help keep everyone safe, we have had to erect Heras fence panels around the excavator.

However, the rest of the footpath up to there has been left open.

Signage has been erected at either end to advise the public where the footpath is closed up ahead and this is complemented by the signage supplied to us by NLC which displays their suggested alternative route.

We anticipate that this aspect of the works will be ongoing for the next 3 months but we will make every effort to reopen the footpath as soon as it is safe to do so, even whilst the works are still ongoing, if possible.

Whenever undertaking a project, Network Rail and our contractors look for opportunities to engage with the local community.

As part of these efforts, staff from our contractor QTS, who are carrying out weather resilience work at Croy on behalf of Scotland's railway, visited Holy Cross Primary School in Croy to take part in some talks and activities.

There were also STEM activities and challenges that the pupils took part in as well as getting the opportunity to try out some of the PPE operatives wear.

The teams had a fantastic time working with the children and feedback from the school has been overwhelmingly positive with discussions taking place on offering something similar to primary 7.

The team have been working hard through the winter weather to keep the programme on track.

The plan remains for the work on finishing the golf course/footpath side by 22 December, and the main compound will be removed from the station car park by then.

That still leaves an 80m length of cutting on the quarry side to be done after the holidays, so our teams plan to keep our satellite compound within the small car park across the road from the station until the end of January 2024.