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. 138 _ The Trackway
The Rainham Trackway provides significant improvements to a strategically important pedestrian and cycle route, linking Rainham village to the Thames. It forms a new threshold landmark appropriate to the scale and significance of the landscapes of Rainham marsh.
The first one hundred and twenty metres of the route is elevated from the ground on a series of raking timber columns. The path continues down to marsh level along the top of an earth bank, created with material from the newly excavated wetlands.
Columns are engineered from timber; larch, sourced from eastern Germany. The columns support a composite deck made from steel and pre‑cast concrete with an in‑situ concrete structural topping. Structural engineering design was by Jane Wernick Associates.
The main contractor was Volker Fitzpatrick, with steelwork by SH Structures and timber engineering by Peter Bertsche.
