East Midlands Gateway was a three-year project to create a Strategic Rail Freight Interchange (SRFI) at the heart of the United Kingdom’s transport network.
At a glance
- Client: Segro Plc
- End-user: Amazon, XPO Logistics, Shop Direct, Kuene & Nagel, Games Workshop
- Client's agent: Fairhurst / SBH
- Architect: PHP Architects
- Engineer: Hydrock / Cass Hayward / RPS
- Completion: Phased between April 2019 - July 2020
As Principal Contractor for the initial infrastructure phases of this Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP), Winvic has also completed works on the 50-acre rail freight terminal with 5k of railway line installation, alongside ten development plots of the 6 million sq ft of logistics space.
- Amazon, Plot 1 – 1.3m sq ft fulfilment centre (including 2 storey mezzanine) – completed April 2019
- XPO Logistics, Plot 2 – 600,000 sq ft distribution centre including 35m high bay facility – completed April 2019
- Shop Direct, Plot 3 – 500,000 sq ft distribution centre – completed September 2019
- Kuehne & Nagel, Plot 4 – 195,000 sq ft distribution centre – completed March 2019
- Plot 5, MAERSK – 600,000 sq ft distribution unit – completed December 2022
- Games Workshop, Plot 6 – 177,500 sq ft distribution facility – completed July 2020
- Plot 8 – 150,000 sq ft fulfilment centre – completed August 2021
- Plot 9 – 200,000 sq ft cold store ready speculative build net zero distribution warehouse – completed November 2021
- Plot 11 – 600,000 sq ft warehouse – completed October 2022
- Plot 12 – 695,000 sq ft distribution centre including 33m high bay facility – completion September 2021
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6 million m³ of plateau, screening and topsoiling earthworks
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300,000 tons of aggregates
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700 people working on site
East Midlands Gateway in Numbers
- 6 million sq ft of development plots for storage and distribution warehouses
- 6 million m3 of plateau, screening and topsoiling earthworks
- 2-metre rise in the level of a newly laid section of the A453
- New rail freight terminal to accommodate up to 16 trains a day
- Earthworks cut up to 25m below existing level for rail freight terminal
- 7km private rail link to Castle Donington branch freight only line
- 105,000m3 of earth moved in any one week at peak of earthworks programme
- 65 pieces of machinery operating on site any one point
- 126,040m2 of new surfaced pavement
- 2 new bridges; one with 45 degree skew
- 163km of new services
- 1 km of new one-metre diameter ferro concrete pipework in the diversion of Derwent Valley Aqueduct (DVA), serving 600,000 customers in the East Midlands
- 30 service diversions
- 8 metre deep drainage installed
- Over 300,000 tons of aggregates
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