THE TransPennine Route upgrade dominated the Christmas work schedules in the north of England.
Despite facing difficult weather conditions, hundreds of engineers worked around the clock throughout the festive season between Manchester, Huddersfield, Leeds and York in order to complete a number of projects.
These included replacement of points outside York station; track replacement at Mirfield; decommissioning of platform 2 at Mirfield station; and installation of a new undertrack crossing at Huddersfield.
While these tasks were taking place, extensive piling and electrification work was completed across various sections of the TransPennine route, alongside signalling and telecommunication equipment testing.
On the southerly TransPennine route, a new bridge was installed near Dore & Totley station.
Nationally, there was extensive work over the Christmas and New Year periods and highlights included the replacement of six sets of switches and crossings at Doncaster, and Overhead Line Equipment (OLE) improvement, plus further installation of equipment for the East Coast Digital Programme between
