Client Brief

To provide Land Surveying, Setting Out, Laser Scanning and GIS Surveys on a 3 miles section of Railway Cutting/Embankments to the West of Templecombe Railway station and surrounding farmland.

The survey was to facilitate the design of Earthwork Stabilisation and to update the existing Drainage to alleviate flooding issues.

Delivery & Method

Using an extensive range of Survey disciplines, our teams carried the following tasks:

  • Detailed Land Survey of the 40hectare site
  • Setting out 3000 ground anchors
  • Setting out Gabion Baskets
  • Laser Scanned 3miles of track using a Gedo Track Trolley
  • Extracting Land Survey data using Gedo Office
  • Producing GIS photographic reports of all ditches
  • Cross sections of all ditches
  • Laser Scanning streams using Hand Held Laser Scanners
  • Monitoring of Cutting face
  • Detailed Drainage Survey of existing Network Rail assets
  • As Built Surveys of newly constructed assets

The final deliverables were:

  • 3D AutoCAD DWG file
  • Point Cloud of track corridor
  • PDF GIS report, with Photography and cross sections for ditches
  • PDF Manhole reports

Outcomes

This was Baypoint Surveys largest project to date and was undertaken during the pandemic. As Key workers, our fully qualified Team of PTS Surveyors not only kept working during the pandemic, but played a major part in enabling the delivery of this emergency job.

Our services were only required up to December 2020, but the Client’s design and construction teams, were able to complete a successful project to Network Rail, which should safeguard the track for years to come.