East London Line Station Works

London, United Kingdom (9 April 2008)

Network Rail has awarded Colas Rail a £15 million contract for the West Croydon, Crystal Palace and South Croydon on-network implementation works. This contract is due for completion in February 2009 and will form part of the new East London Line.

At Crystal Palace, Colas Rail is responsible for the reinstatement of an island platform and associated changes to the permanent way, third rail electrification, signalling and telecomms and mechanical and electrical works whilst at West Croydon, it will undertake the extension of an existing platform and alterations to the permanent way, signalling & telecomms, third rail electrification and M&E services.

Although not part of the East London Line route, a turn-back facility at South Croydon needs to be built to provide operational flexibility to both the East London Line operator and the existing train operator, Southern Trains. Colas Rail will deliver all of the permanent way works, together with the necessary changes to the signalling and third rail electrification.

In addition to the on-site works, Colas Rail will also undertake the alterations to the systems in London Bridge, London Victoria and Three Bridges Signal Boxes.

Charles-Albert Giral, CEO of Colas Rail commented on this award. “Colas Rail is delighted to be actively involved in the creation of the London Overground Network. I very much hope that this contract will become one of our flag-ship projects in terms of safety performance, quality delivery and profitability. .

Contacts:

Sandie Rudd, Communications Manager, Colas Rail Ltd, +44(0)20 7593 5350

Notes to Editors:

Colas Rail Ltd is one of Europe’s leading providers of rail infrastructure services. It combines engineering skills to provide total solutions in all aspects of design, development and delivery of rail projects, from high speed rail systems to light and urban rail.