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Despite being one of the most challenging rail projects of recent times, High Speed 1 - the 68 mile link from the Channel Tunnel to London previously known as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link - is on schedule to come into full passenger service on 14 November 2007
 High Speed 1 is on track with 3M
 
 
The Power Supply Upgrade (PSU) project carried out by Network Rail over the past three or four years has truly been on a grand scale. It was the largest electrical supply project in Europe at the time and the biggest electrification project in Britain’s railways for well over fifty years, costing over 500 million pounds. More importantly, it has been considered a resounding success.
 The Inside Track on Network Rail’s PSU project
 
 
The use of the 3M Cold Shrink as part of WCML’s auto transformer feeding system is expected to allow Network Rail a saving of £3 million compared to traditional methods.
 WCML gets up to speed with 3M Cold Shrink