Historic Railways Estate and Hammond ECS recently enlisted the help of Intercity to carry out the refurbishment of Brampton Road Bridge in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. Brampton Road Bridge is a disused railway bridge that has since been repurposed as a pedestrian walking route.
Our first task was to safely extract samples of the existing coating to send to the laboratory for lead content testing. Once the results of the samples were returned, we could begin to remove the old coating in a safe and controlled manor via methods of shot blasting. With the historic bridge fully enclosed and restricted from the public, we arrived with one of our modular decontamination units and our lead trained shot blasting team on site to begin to shot blast the old coating from the steel structure and clean the metal to Sa2.5 standard.
Once the metal was properly cleaned and profiled, we could begin to apply the weatherproof coating system. For this bridge restoration project we applied our signature multi-stage 2K Epoxy-Hybrid system, offering 30 years to first maintenance. This is a popular protective system for use on steel structures, particularly those exposed to weather conditions such as this bridge is. The final finish is a Satin Black as requested by Historic Railways.
