Rail News
Lanes Group’s Rail Division has appointed Kevin Robins as its new Health and Safety Manager. It is a new departure for an established health and safety professional who has built his expertise in the construction industry. Kevin, a Chartered Member of the Institute of Safety and Health, said: “It’s a fresh challenge and I am…
In what is believed to be a UK first, Lanes Group plc has carried out an innovative repair of a siphon pipe beneath a main railway line. Its sewer rehabilitation and lining division has used a new compact and ultra-thin packer to reach damaged sections beyond a bend in the pipe beneath the Great Western…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc have demonstrated the power of water jetting when deployed to clear silt, rubble, and boulders from large-diameter railway culverts. A team of drainage operatives from the company’s Manchester depot removed 25 tonnes of material from a 30-metre-long culvert under the Manchester to Wigan railway line at Atherton in just…
Lanes Rail has completed more than 30,000 repairs and introduced multiple innovations to improve efficiency, safety, and cost control in the first year of a major new maintenance contract for London Underground. The five-year 1 FM contract, which went live in June 2017, covers all building maintenance work along underground lines, and at depots, train…
Transport for London has instructed Lanes Rail to carry out the reactive and planned premises maintenance for the underground section of the new Elizabeth Line through central London. Lanes Rail, part of Lanes Group plc, will be responsible for maintenance at six new stations along the central section of the route: Paddington, Farringdon, Bond Street,…
Lanes Rail has begun a programme of works to refurbish a major viaduct on London Underground’s Piccadilly Line. Brick laying teams are repointing and replacing brickwork on the structure between South Harrow and Rayners Lane Tube stations in West London. The viaduct, one of the longest on the Tube network, opened on 1st March 1910….
Drainage teams from Lanes Group plc have been commissioned to help turn a 1.7-mile-long Victorian rail tunnel into one of the world’s most unusual vehicle testing and research centres. The disused Catesby Tunnel near Charwelton, six miles south of Daventry, Northamptonshire, is being transformed into the Catesby Aero Research Facility. Once it is complete, its…
Lanes Group plc’s Rail Division has completed a substantial project to repair a viaduct carrying the Piccadilly Line over a river in West London. In a programme work that lasted seven months, large sections of brickwork on the viaduct across the River Brent near Alperton were replaced, reset, and repointed. Remote monitoring equipment has been…
