{"id":10414,"date":"2007-06-01T16:07:37","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T16:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/?p=10414"},"modified":"2012-09-20T16:19:33","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T16:19:33","slug":"traincare-centre-will-ease-the-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/traincare-centre-will-ease-the-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Traincare centre will ease the strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ashford-Traincare-image-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10415\" title=\"Ashford-Traincare-image-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ashford-Traincare-image-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ashford-Traincare-image-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ashford-Traincare-image-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Passengers using east Kent to London train services will soon benefit from a significant reduction in journey times on a new fleet of trains serviced and maintained at a new traincare centre.<\/p>\n<p>The \u00a340M state-of-the-art rail maintenance and servicing centre is under construction adjacent to Ashford International Station.<\/p>\n<p>Conder Structures has supplied and erected more than 800t of steel for the project as part of its contract which it won from Fitzpatrick Contractors, part of the DEPCO consortium.<\/p>\n<p>The facility, which is 185m-long x 38m wide, comprises a five-road, light maintenance centre and a connected two-storey office block. The structure is a two-span portal frame with a full-width curved roof, which has a valley line that follows the divide between the workshops and office.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Ridley, Conder Structures\u2019 Managing Director, said the entire steelwork was erected in only three and half weeks, beating the main contractor\u2019s programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was achieved by detailed design and full off-site checking at our factory before despatch, enabling the site team to proceed with the plan to minimise the erection time,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the facility Conder installed some complex steelwork for a suspended 2t gantry crane on the bogie change road, where carriages are lifted off for their running gear to be replaced.<\/p>\n<p>The project is on schedule for hand-over in early July 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers using east Kent to London train services will soon benefit from a significant reduction in journey times on a new fleet of trains serviced and maintained at a new traincare centre. The \u00a340M state-of-the-art rail maintenance and servicing centre is under construction adjacent to Ashford International Station. 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