GRIP 5-8 Delivery of Coventry South, Northampton CET and Tyseley Fuel Road 12

Coventry Carriage Sidings are located immediately south of Coventry Station adjacent to the Leamington Line and currently comprise four sidings with limited operational use. The sidings are currently classified as Network Rail sidings and only Roads 3 and 4 are presently accessible due to track materials being stored on Roads 1 and 2. Live OHLE infrastructure is present at the entrance to the sidings and on the adjacent main line. It is intended to develop the sidings into an operational stabling and light maintenance facility to support the Class 730 fleet and future operational requirements associated with the Coventry and Snow Hill routes. The project shall provide overnight stabling capacity for up to ten 3-car Class 730 units together with servicing infrastructure including CET, tanking, cleaning, walking routes, welfare facilities, lighting, security, electrical infrastructure and operational safety systems. The development is expected to require significant civils, track, M&E, drainage, OHLE, operational safety and depot infrastructure works. The proposed changes are also expected to require the sidings to be reclassified as a Light Maintenance Depot, subject to Network Rail approvals. The project will also improve operational access to the sidings through reinstatement of the disused walking route from Platform 4 and associated access, security and lighting upgrades.

The Train Presentation Team currently undertake the evacuation of Controlled Emission Toilets and tanking on the 4-car Class 350 units using mobile bowser units whilst trains are dwelling at Northampton Station on Platforms 1, 2 and 3. These mobile units are then discharged by connecting to a discharge point located near the south end of bay platform 4 or the north end of platform 2. Whilst these facilities are suitable for CET maintenance activities on the Class 350 units, they are not suitable for evacuating the CET on the new Class 730 units as the connection points are located below the sole bar and cannot be accessed from the platform. This project scope is to provide the facilities required by the Train Presentation Team to undertake both CET and train servicing activities and for drivers to safely access and egress the trains when stabled in Northampton Riverside Sidings A and B. To support these activities, WM Trains have created a Light Maintenance Depot at Northampton within which the following activities will be undertaken overnight on the Class 730 trains stabled in the river sidings: CET extraction, flushing and tanking waste removal internal cleaning topping up of screen wash pre-train operation inspections front end cleaning, where required topping up of train sand boxes, where required

WM Trains currently operates fuelling and train servicing activities at Tyseley Train Maintenance Depot, Birmingham using existing permanent fuelling roads 13, 14 and 15. Following operational changes associated with fleet deployment, revised timetable requirements and depot operational constraints, the temporary fuelling arrangements installed on Road 12 during previous fuelling enhancement works have become operationally critical. The project will provide a permanent embedded track fuel apron and associated servicing infrastructure on Road 12 to replace the temporary arrangements. The proposed project will provide a permanent embedded track fuel apron, associated below ground drainage and interceptor systems, fuelling and servicing facilities, canopy structures, depot protection interfaces, lighting, CCTV, M&E infrastructure and associated operational facilities. The project shall support the safe and efficient servicing of up to 6-vehicle formations without splitting or shunting and shall be designed to accommodate current and future operational requirements.