📋 Tender Overview
Engineers Will Be Strengthening A Railway Embankment In Hamworthy And Improving Drainage At The Poole Sidings To Help Protect The Railway From Flooding And Improve Long-Term Reliability. Customers Travelling In Dorset Are Advised To Plan Ahead And Allow Extra Time To Complete Their Journeys As Buses Replace Trains Between Saturday 15 And Friday 21 November 2025, While Network Rail Engineers Carry Out Essential Maintenance And Upgrades To The Railway. During This Period, Engineers Will Re-Enforce A 300M Stretch Of Railway Embankment In Hamworthy, And Improve Drainage At The Poole Sidings To Reduce The Risk Of Flooding On The Railway And Improving Long-Term Reliability. Further West, Work Will Take Place To Renew The Wheel Timbers--The Long Blocks That Support The Tracks--On The River Frome Bridge Near Wool. These Will Be Replaced With Modern Fibre-Reinforced Foamed Urethane (Ffu) Alternatives, Extending The Life Of The Structure. Engineers Will Also Complete Footbridge Improvements At Wool Station. To Make Sure We Keep These Works As Sustainable As Possible, WeRe Doing The Following: Changes To Train Services Speaking On Behalf Of Network Rail And South Western Railway, George Murrell, Wessex Route Renewals Director , Said: WeRe Sorry For The Disruption To Passengers While We Carry Out This Work, But ItS Essential To Keep Services Running Safely And Reliably. Our Teams Will Be Working Around The Clock To Strengthen Key Parts Of The Railway And Improve Drainage In The Area, Helping To Make The Line More Resilient In The Years Ahead. Passengers Are Advised To Check Before They Travel At Or With South Western Railway. Further Information About The Works Being Carried Out Can Be Found Here: Passengers / Community Members Network Rail National Helpline 03457 11 41 41 Latest Travel Advice Please Journalists Tom Moore Communications Manager Network Rail 07354531500 We Own, Operate And Develop BritainS Railway Infrastructure; ThatS 20,000 Miles Of , 30,000 And The Thousands Of , Level Crossings And Stations. We Run 20 Of The UkS Largest While All The Others, Over 2,500, Are Run By The CountryS . Usually, There Are Almost Five Million Journeys Made In The Uk And Over 600 Freight Trains Run On The Network. People Depend On BritainS Railway For Their Daily Commute, To Visit Friends And Loved Ones And To Get Them Home Safe Every Day. Our Role Is To Deliver , So We Carefully Manage And Deliver Thousands Of Projects Every Year That Form Part Of The , To Grow And Expand The NationS Railway Network To Respond To The Tremendous Growth And Demand The Railway Has Experienced - A Doubling Of Passenger Journeys Over The Past 20 Years. Follow Us On Twitter: Visit Our Online Newsroom:
