Projects

Greater Banjul Rail Mass Transit Concept Development

LansDG Engineering with the International Investment and Capacity Enhancement Group (IICEG) are presently developing an elevated mass rail mass transit scheme in the Greater Banjul area of The Gambia. The area proposed for the Light Transit is the Kanifing Region of Greater Banjul with the biggest population density in the Gambia hence has potential ridership. There is presently no mode of mass transportation in the area with majority of journeys undertaken by private vehicles or taxis.

The Bertil Harding Highway and Senegambia Highway, which run parallel to the Atlantic coast for about 5km traverse the core of the business and tourism areas of Kanifing. Experience now shows that section of the road network nearly gridlocked as it struggles to cope with the volume of traffic and footfall.

The considerable project will increase commercial activity in the Kanifing area and provide much needed employment for large numbers of the population. The author proposes this could be up to 10,000 (direct and indirect) well-paying jobs.

Stations Design Concepts

Three station layouts have been developed to accommodate a variety of predicted passenger numbers along the proposed route. A smaller station can serve the stops with lower passenger foot-traffic and a larger station can serve the busier sections of the line. The large mixed use (Passenger and Commercial) station type is proposed for Kololi station.

Mass Transit Route

The mass transit is made up of 2 Lines – the Blue and Red. The Blue Line is 23Km and consists of 15 stations. The Red Line is circa 15Km with 10 Station. Both lines terminate at Banjul International Station.

Crossrail Project

Crossrail is a railway construction project under way mainly in Central London. Its aim is to provide a high-frequency suburban passenger service crossing London from west to east, to be branded the Elizabeth line by connecting two major railway lines terminating in London, the Great Western Main Line and the Great Eastern Main Line. The project was approved in 2007, and construction began in 2009 on the central section and connections to existing lines that will become part of the route.

The main feature of the project is the construction of a new railway line that will run underground from near Paddington Station via central London and Liverpool Street Station to Stratford. Another almost entirely new line will branch off the main line at Whitechapel in east London. It will run to Canary Wharf, cross the Thames and connect with the North Kent Line at Abbey Wood in south east London.

LansGD Engineering Scope

LansGD Engineers served as the Client’s (Transport for London) Engineers, part of the Chief Engineer’s Group, reviewing and approving major project deliverables. LansDG was also responsible for work to handover Stations, Shafts and Portal of the Central Section of the Line to London Underground, who would manage the Central Section Stations where they interface with existing stations – Paddington, Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road, Farringdon, Liverpool Street and Whitechapel.

New nine-carriage Class 345 trains will run at frequencies in the central section of up to 24 trains per hour in each direction. This will provide some relief for London Underground lines such as the Central, the District, the Jubilee line extension and the Heathrow branch of the Piccadilly line. At each end of its central core services will divide into two branches: in the west to Reading and Heathrow Central; in the east to Abbey Wood and to Shenfield. In May 2015, services on a section of one of the eastern branches, between Liverpool Street and Shenfield, were transferred to TfL Rail; this precursor service also took control of Heathrow Connect in May 2018 and the Paddington to Reading line in December 2019.

Etihad Rail Project

The United Arab Emirates Etihad Rail is building a 1,200km railway network. The network will link the principal centres of trade, industry, manufacturing, production, logistics, population and all the major import and export points of the United Arab Emirates as well as to form an integral part of the Gulf Cooperation Council railway network. The completed railway will link freight facilities and passenger stations. It will run from the Saudi Arabian border at Ghweifat in the west, via or close to the cities of the Gulf coast, to the Northern Emirates and the East coast. There will also be a line running from Abu Dhabi to Al Ain, with an intended connection into the Sultanate of Oman, as well as an existing branch line to the gas facilities at Shah and Habshan.

LansGD Engineering consultants were involved in Technical Assurance of the complex Civils, Earth Structures, Sand Mitigation and Track design and build packages of work of the Stage 2 extension to the existing freight railway. Stage 2 extends the existing Stage 1 railway network to the border with Saudi Arabia as well as to Jebel Ali Port. From Jebel Ali Junction, the network extends north through Dubai and the Northern Emirates to Fujairah Port.

LansGD Engineering consultants (Mechanical, Civil and Systems Engineers) undertook safety analysis of the packages of work and the concept of operations to identify technical risks and developed a Hazards Log. Risk mitigations were collated into Design Safety Cases which were submitted for regulatory authorisation and municipal acceptance.

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