Rail Link Engineering has selected a high security Abloy master key system to safeguard Section One of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link

  • Locking systems
When completed in 2007, the high-speed Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) – which runs for nearly 70 miles linking St Pancras Station in London with the Channel Tunnel – will be Britain’s first major new railway for over a Century.

The line is being built in two sections. Construction of Section One, which runs between the Channel Tunnel and Fawkham Junction in north Kent, began in October 1998 and was finalised in September 2003, when the railway was opened. Work on Section Two commenced in July 2001. Due for completion this year, it links the line into St Pancras.

For this project, client Rail Link Engineering specified Abloy padlocks, all of them specially designed to provide maximum resistance against physical attack. They are helping to secure track gates, cabinets, intakes and tunnel access gates. The padlocks feature a robust construction for optimum mechanical strength, as well as improved drill protection, hardened steel housings, boron steel shackles and hardened stainless steel balls locking the shackle on both sides to enhance security.

To complete the security system, Abloy cylinders were selected to secure equipment houses and signalling buildings.

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