Tuesday 1 February 2011

Railway Track survey and GPS Control - A frosty start to 2011

Severn Partnership has had to come out “the blocks” at an electrifying pace in 2011 with over 70 miles of mainline railway already surveyed.

Railway surveyors on track in the snow

Railway Track surveys included:

  • St. Pancras to Sheffield  – Midland Mainline over 48 Miles of track surveyed making also making use of the GRP5000 kinematic laser scanning system wit the latest clearoute software from Amberg Technologies.
  • Walsall to Rugeley Trent Valley – RRN – 12 Miles of railway track including fence to boundary fence for the West Midlands Signalling Renewals.

Quality survey data is being delivered to the clients using Severn Partnership’s experienced railway surveyors who are all PTS qualified with Senior Surveyors being COSS qualified.

Large scale geodetic networks are observed using upto 16 number GPS units, simultaneously at times. This is backed up by bespoke Railgrid software experience in which has been gathered over the last 7 years and the commissioning of 9 Railgrid mapping projections including the MM07 Snakegrid for Midland Mainline in 2007.

The Rail Engineer article on St Pancras to Sheffield Geodetic control survey


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