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Rail permanent way

We design and install permanent way on Network Rail infrastructure. Permanent way comprises equipment such as turnouts, plain line, formation (including bottom ballast and geotextile layers), drainage, and horizontal and vertical alignments.

We also offer feasibility studies for potential permanent way realignment schemes and freight terminals.

Both installation and design are safety-critical activities and must generally be carried out by staff who have been involved in permanent way schemes. Installation and survey activities are generally undertaken within railway possessions and are heavily constrained by restrictions on access and available time.

Modern permanent way designs generally enable increased network capacity (increased frequency of trains and longer trains) and require fewer staff to maintain the new infrastructure. Feasibility studies enable Mouchel to be able to undertake multi-task schemes and take them from inception to installation.

Mouchel is able to provide the full range of services across the spectrum of Permanent Way installation and design, and is able to call on civil engineers to assist in providing structural and civil aspects of main line schemes. This enables a fully-integrated service of design and installation to be provided.

Mouchel is one of the relatively few companies in the UK that can call on all disciplines to work under one roof in the undertaking of feasibility schemes and designs to provide a genuine ‘one-stop shop’.