Date: 12/09/2016

Overhead catenary installed on the main line between Edinburgh and Glasgow won't have to be taken down and replaced, says Network Rail, as some press reports have claimed.
A report by Glasgow Live stated that parts of the newly fitted OLE would have to be 'ripped up and started again' as they had been strung too low. Similar stories were run by the Sunday Post and the Edinburgh Evening News.

Responding to the coverage, Network Rail said the wires had been installed at the correct height and that it was only at some stations and bridges where it was having to review clearances.

The issue which has arisen because of a change in the European OLE TSI standards introduced in 2014 “ two years after work began on the project.

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