Carillion on track with two rail wins worth £110m

Carillion has been awarded two rail contracts worth a total of £110m by Network Rail.

The projects are the Airdrie-Bathgate Rail Link and the Great Eastern Overhead Line Enabling works.

The first, at Airdrie, is worth £80m and it includes the provision of new structures, stations, earthworks, ground treatment and filling operations up to ballast level. Completion is due within 18 months.

The contract forms part of a major project to improve rail links in Central Scotland that will provide a fully double-tracked and electrified line linking communities between Glasgow and Edinburgh. 

The second win is for the Great Eastern Line Enablement Works and will be completed in 2012. It includes rewiring the Great Eastern line from Liverpool Street to Chelmsford.

Carillion chief executive, John McDonough, said: "These contracts follow a number of other recent successes in the rail infrastructure market, including a £90m contract for the North London Line, an £80m contract for maintenance of the East London Line and our appointment as one of seven framework contractors to deliver an additional £800m of investment in track enhancements.”