Rail monitoring from Survey Solutions
Site Eye is part of Survey Solutions, the UK’s largest engineering surveying group. Through JWG Survey & Engineering, a Survey Solutions company, the group monitors movement, track condition and structural behaviour before, during and after works, for asset owners, principal contractors, consultants and engineering teams.
Railway infrastructure is highly sensitive to movement. A monitoring scheme sets a reliable baseline, detects change at agreed intervals, compares readings with pre-agreed trigger levels and gives you a documented record of how assets behaved.
What they monitor
- Track alignment
- Gauge, cant and twist
- Voiding and settlement
- Bridges and bridge approaches
- Tunnels and portals
- Platforms and station assets
- Retaining walls and boundary structures
- Embankments and cuttings
- Adjacent buildings and third-party assets
- Temporary works and construction interfaces
Manual monitoring
Readings at agreed stages, possessions, milestones or inspection intervals. Suits short-term works, lower-frequency checks and projects where access is carefully planned.
Automated monitoring
Frequent or continuous readings, with alerts when agreed intervention levels are reached. Suits higher-risk, time-sensitive schemes, so the team can respond before issues escalate.
How a rail monitoring scheme runs
- Project review and monitoring strategy: site, asset, works method, access and possessions.
- Baseline survey and control framework before works begin.
- Installation of targets, instruments or automated equipment, or manual observations.
- Readings compared with the baseline and trigger levels at agreed intervals.
- Clear reports and alerts in a format agreed with you.
Project example: rail station structural monitoring. Survey Solutions delivered remote structural monitoring at a UK rail station, using Leica ComBox60 and prism tracking to support infrastructure risk decisions. Read the project
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