Railway Operational Risk (SORA)

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Since 2001, we have been appointed as Network Rail's Signal Overrun Risk Assessment (SORA) technical authority. As part of our service, we are the sole training provider for the process and carry out competence verifications on all newly trained assessors throughout the industry. Please click here for more information on our SORA training courses.

Together with Network Rail, we wrote the SORA company standards issued in 2003 and are currently an integral part of their process change – currently scheduled for 2013.

As well as the Training and Verification, we have also carried out the SORA process on a large number of new infrastructure schemes by working with a number of partners. Some of the more recent projects include;

Amey

Crossrail NE Sections & Translink Northern Ireland

Mott MacDonald

Huyton Capacity Scheme (Northern Hub) & Bedford

Babcock

Banbury & Stirling to Dunblane

Tata Rail (Corus)

Westerleigh to Barnt Green & Peterborough Station

Invensys

Reading re-modelling & Thameslink Inner Area

URS (Scott Wilson)

Stafford & Rochdale

May Gurney

Sleaford & Bury to Chippenham

Carillion

East London Line Clapham Junction & Thameslink Outer Area

Signalling Solutions

Hertford National Test facility & Sandy

Arup

Slade Lane & Waterloo

Hyder

Stansted Airport & Wessex platform extensions

Parsons Brinckerhoff

Gatwick Airport & Stalybridge

Jacobs

Thameslink low level & North London incline

In addition to the new infrastructure schemes, we were appointed by Network Rail, to risk assess 750 signals in the LNW region as part of their steady state risk assessment project.

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