How much did Ordsall Chord cost to build?
The Ordsall Chord is a short rail link of about 300 m (Wikidata gives 583 m) in Manchester and Salford that connects Manchester Victoria with Piccadilly and Oxford Road for the first time, delivered by the Northern Hub Alliance of Network Rail, Skanska, BAM Nuttall, Siemens and Amey Sersa after funding was announced in the 2011 budget, with construction from 2016 and the first through services on 10 December 2017. Rail Engineer (18 January 2018) calls it the GBP 85 million Ordsall Chord project, the same as Wikipedia's funding figure, while the wider Northern Hub scheme was about GBP 530 million.
Reported project cost
£85 million
Approximately $109.4 million
Cost basis: 2017
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Basis of the published figure
Reported project cost2017
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Key dimensions
- Total lengthRail Engineer
- 300 m
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