Cockfosters Rd27 Stump Removal, London

As part of the Piccadilly Line Upgrade Cockfosters depot is planned to be expanded adjacent to road 27. As part of the enabling work, trees in this rail locked piece of ground had already been felled leaving all the tree stumps behind. Our scope of work was to remove all the tree stumps, previous timber and railway arisings. The project was mechanised using 13tn tracked excavators with various attachments, buckets were used to pull out the stumps and a selector grab was used to pick up the arisings and load them in a dumper where they were transported to an adjacent depot sidings road for loading onto an engineering train. All the arisings were loaded onto the engineering trains using an excavator fitted with a selector grab. The engineering trains were scheduled twice weekly throughout the project and all arisings were taken to Ruislip depot for segregation and disposal. Approximately 40 engineering train wagons of arisings were removed from the site. The site had a final litter pick, de-veg and grading to leave it ready for the next phase of the project to construct the new siding roads. This project was completed ahead of programme without any additional costs and with no accidents for incidents.