5 November 2015, 10:42
ALE has started a transportation project which involves the delivery of three transformers, weighing 135t and measuring 7.6m x 4.98m x 4.55m each, to the new National Grid substation at Highbury in North London.
The transformers arrived in the Port of Tilbury earlier in October and were successfully discharged using a mobile crane onto an ALE trailer and subsequently loaded onto ALE’s AL50 (14 axle) girder frame trailer.
So far one transformer has been delivered to site, using AL50 girder frame and ALE’s award-winning Trojan trucks. The delivery to site took place on the M25 motorway in one night and a daytime move through London, involving a road closure of the A1 at Holloway Road.
Extensive advance preparation was required and ALE liaised with the Highways Agency, Police forces and several local authorities along the route to obtain the route approvals, road closures, parking restrictions, street furniture removal and traffic management schemes to enable the first delivery to be successfully completed.
The remaining two transformers have been offloaded onto ALE steel supports and are awaiting onward transportation to site in two separate deliveries, in November 2015 and January 2016.
Once each of the transformers are delivered to site, ALE will then perform the installation onto their respective foundations with 8 axle lines of SPT.