Client: Network Rail Channel Tunnel Rail Link
Location: Kent, UK
Skills: Town Planning, Architecture, Landscape Architecture
The Singlewell project comprises office, workshop and maintenance buildings together with a rail spur off the main line, access road, car parking and hardstandings. The purpose of the depot is to support the onerous maintenance regime of Britain's first high speed railway and provides a maintenance facility with an administrative and records base, workshops and stores to maintain track vehicles, which is independent of existing railway facilities. The maintenance of the railway is undertaken from vehicles running along the tracks, which they access from Singlewell. The rail vehicles have a range of modules that can be attached to undertake the activities required and their day to day maintenance is managed on site. The depot is to the north of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) and combined with the widening of the A2, results in the loss of the Singlewell linear park. To mitigate this a new park was provided to the south of the CTRL, opposite the depot, using excavated material from the construction works. Other works within the depot include sidings; fuelling facility; training area; laydown area and car parking.