The current NI Railways cable route infrastructure has been boosted thanks to a programme of work onto and along Whiteabbey Station Platform.

FP McCann installed a new rail signalling trough and duct route in the area, which helps facilitate the ongoing Fortwilliam to Bleach Green Re-Signalling Project.

The works involved the installation of 75m of buried multi duct and anti-tamper surface trough sections and 2no. 1200mm x 1200mm Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) access chambers with lockable concrete infill lids within the cess and UP platform followed by platform bituminous surfacing and thermoplastic line marking reinstatements and finally the insitu concrete extension of the platform to Permanent Way (P-Way) access ramp. With excavations being required to be undertaken alongside live and critical rail signal and telecommunication cable infrastructure, as well as alongside the foundations of the adjacent masonry arch rail over bridge, FP McCann employed the use of a vacuum excavator operated in conjunction with a Road/Rail Excavator (RRV) to complete the excavations safely whilst reducing the risk of service strikes, injury to operatives and possible impact to the rail infrastructure and operations.

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Works were undertaken during night possessions of the line, whereby every effort was made to minimise disruption to the local residents.