Balfour Beatty Collaborates to Transform London Bridge Station

The UK’s fourth busiest railway station, London Bridge, has been officially reopened by Prince William the Duke of Cambridge following a £1+ billion transformation carried out by Network Rail in collaboration with Balfour Beatty and other partners.

The transformed station will nearly double its passenger capacity and enable more and faster connections for passengers. The five-year build included a major track upgrade, a new rail underpass on the approach to the station and platform widenings and extensions, all of which means 30 percent more trains can use the station than before.

Balfour Beatty contributed extensive track remodeling, civil engineering and power upgrades of all lines east and west of the station involving 128 different track stages and nine signaling changes. Additionally, the general contractor installed over 40 kilometers of track and 147 new switches and crossings, as well as introducing two new lines for the Thameslink train to run independently from the other train-operating companies. The value of the project was worth around £220 million to Balfour Beatty.

Mark Carne, chief executive of Network Rail, said: “This station has been rebuilt from its Victorian foundations upwards, while still providing a service for the 48 million people who use it every year, to be delivered on the very day we said we would five years ago. This is a station that represents a transformation in passenger experience, a catalyst for economic growth and a world first in the use of Digital Railway technology demonstrating our vision of the future.”