Date: 26/08/2022

Network Rail takes you behind the scenes of a year-long project on one of the railway's most historically innovative feats of engineering.

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Video: Network Rail completes major renewal project at historic Sudbrook pumping station

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We take you behind the scenes of a year-long project on one of the railways most historically innovative feats of engineering.

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Sudbrook Pumping Station has been a working part of the railway between south Wales and England for more than 130 years. When construction began on the Severn Tunnel, beneath the Severn Estuary, in the 1800s, engineers discovered a natural spring. Efforts were then focused on constructing a drainage system that could continuously remove the excess spring water. Today, the pumps at Sudbrook continue to play their role on the railway and once every three decades, those pumps are replaced - a big task that Network Rail, and contractors Centregreat, have just completed this summer.
Location: Severn Tunnel
Company: Severn Tunnel (Great Western Railway)
/08/2022 Network Rail

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