Preparing for mobilisation
Preparing a rail project of this scale was no small feat. To enable the project to move from construction to operations required TfL to demonstrate that Crossrail and its partners had delivered a railway which is integrated, safe, operable, maintainable and meets the required performance and reliability levels.
Working closely with TfL, we were crucial in supporting the development of the joint trial operations plan to meet assurance and documentation requirements. We reviewed standards and helped to identify any gaps, writing new standards where needed. We worked in collaboration with Network Assurance teams to integrate and implement critical operations systems.
Ensuring a smooth transition to live operations
Transitioning from construction to live operations, requires people, procedures, systems, and assets to be trialled to ensure confidence; ensure multiple delivery organisations are coordinated and aligned in delivery of trials, and subsequently future operations.
We supported TfL to identify more than 100 real-life scenarios that would need to be trialled. In a series of workshops with network control, operations, maintenance, and trial operations teams, we mapped out the scenarios, rating the risk and prioritising them, which ranged from a sick person on the train through to a complete station evacuation.
Various scenarios were tested, from regular occurrences to highly technical signalling scenarios and evacuations, ensuring the trial operations programme delivered across the objectives of safety, operability, maintainability, customer service and reliability.