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Lawrence Hill Step-Free Access: Supporting the devolved transport agenda

The Lawrence Hill Step-Free Access project will make a busy suburban Bristol station accessible for users with mobility challenges and easier to navigate for rail users with children, heavy luggage or shopping. The design/build project, delivered by Octavius, sees a new lift providing step-free access to platform 2 for the first time. A new deck […]

Okehampton Interchange opens: 164,000 new passengers anticipated

Okehampton Interchange, the Dartmoor Line’s newest station, has begun serving passengers, improving connections between West Devon, Torridge and North Cornwall with Exeter and beyond. The station is expected to support 164,000 passenger journeys in its first 12 months, strengthening local access to jobs, education, healthcare and wider opportunities. Octavius delivered this scheme as design and […]

Winterstoke Bridge: Overcoming road over rail challenges

Built in the 1940s to support wartime industries, Winterstoke Road Bridge was no longer able to fulfil its role as a principal route into Weston-super-Mare. In recent years, a weight restriction has meant that larger traffic has to avoid the bridge, causing congestion in the town centre, and the declining condition of the bridge meant […]

Collaborative working comes to the forefront

With regional devolution on an unprecedented scale collaborative working is increasingly seen as the best way to deliver transport infrastructure As transport enters a new era – with regional devolution on an unprecedented scale, CP7 building momentum, and the dawn of RIS3 – progressive, collaborative procurement is increasingly recognised as the best way to deliver […]

Bushey PSU: Achieving unprecedented schedule

Upgrading the West Coast Mainline’s (WCML) power supply at Bushey, Hertfordshire, has presented a long-standing challenge. Access to the line, where local commuter services run on slow lines alongside a busy section of the mainline, has been the principal challenge. In spring 2026 Octavius successfully delivered an ambitious solution to the stubborn challenge at Bushey […]

Everyone’s Journey – Small Changes for a Big Impact

Octavius is proud of the Access for All (AfA) schemes we’ve delivered and how these have helped bring mobility opportunities to so many people. We’re also aware that physical transport infrastructure – however well designed – is only part of the story. Disabled people travel up to a third less than non-disabled people. It’s harder […]

Charfield Station New Build: Enabling an attractive alternative to car travel

About the project Charfield is among a host of new railway stations nationwide being built by local authorities to meet their transformative regional transport needs. With South Gloucestershire Council leading on the scheme, Octavius is working on behalf of Network Rail and alongside Great Western Railway to deliver the project. South Gloucestershire village, Charfield, sits […]

DLR lift renewals: Smart sequencing to maintain step-free access

About the project Smart sequencing has been the key to success for Octavius’ Docklands Light Railway (DLR) lift renewal programme. Throughout the work the focus has been on passenger experience, ensuring step-free access was always available, on all routes, for the mass transit system’s users. Achieving this required developing a detailed understanding of the network […]

Okehampton Interchange: Enabling regional growth, at speed

About the project Okehampton Interchange is a new-build station, necessary to support local authorities’ regional growth strategies. Octavius is the project’s design and build contractor, which was awarded under Network Rail’s Wales and Western Framework. Part of Devon’s Dartmoor Line, in form and function Okehampton typifies a new generation of stations being created across the […]

Stoneleigh Access for All: The same but different

About the project Stoneleigh – in Epsom, southwest London – is one of Surrey’s busiest stations. Stoneleigh Access for All (AfA) made the bustling station accessible for users with mobility challenges and easier to navigate for rail users with children, heavy luggage or shopping. Unique surroundings and location Covered footbridge, three lifts, three sets of […]

Ryde Pier completion: a legacy of innovation and social value

You know an innovation is good when it starts to stick. You know a project is successful when the benefits extend beyond enhanced infrastructure. As Octavius hands back Ryde Pier to South Western Railway, enabling the first trains to run in eight months, the team leaves a legacy of innovation and social value. Ryde Pier […]