London Bridge Station

Case Study

Client: Network Rail
Architect: John McAslan + Partners
Principal Contractor: Constain
Specialist Contractor: Stonewest
Services Provided: Conservation, Facade Cleaning & Restoration

Project Overview

London Bridge station is a central London railway terminus, handles over 50 million passengers a year.  Having opened in 1836, it’s one of the world’s oldest stations in the world.  It was rebuilt in 1849 and again in 1864 to provide more services and accommodate increased capacity.

In 2013, the station underwent a total transformation to enable it to compete with other sizable station globally in the 21st century station .

Stonewest were instructed to conserve the most sensitive areas of heritage of  the Grade I* listed station buildings.

Key Successes

  • Carried out a façade survey and steam cleaned.
  • Restored/conserved and repaired masonry walls, including gauged, red-rubber, yellow, white and black brick specials and limestone carved capitals, string courses and plinths, voussoir arches, as well as moulded terracotta unit replacement.
  • After the cleaning process, thorough inspection of the existing was undertaken to enable production of detailed façade repair surveys, photographs and annotated elevation drawings identifying individual defects and proposed repairs.
  • Major works included the restoration of carved masonry, lime mortar repairs, new gauged, red-rubber, yellow, white and black special bricks and limestone carving replacement, plinths and voussoir arches to the St Thomas Street elevations in Phase I of the works.

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