Rail News
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…
Lanes Rail’s new health and safety manager Amanda Maloney is making supply chain cooperation a priority following the business unit’s success in winning major new contracts with Transport for London. She has joined Lanes Rail, part of drainage and maintenance solutions specialist Lanes Group plc, after working as a senior advisor for a leading construction…
Lanes Group plc has jumped nearly one hundred places up a list of the UK’s top 250 mid-market private companies. The drainage and asset maintenance specialist ranks 121st in the Sunday Times Grant Thornton Top Track 250, up from 218 last year. The league table, published in the Sunday Times on 1st October 2017, identifies…
Two Lanes Group health and safety professionals have been invited to a Royal Garden Party to celebrate the centenary of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA). Group Health, Safety, and Environment Manager Paul McParland and Health and Safety Co-ordinator Jane Horan will be attending the event at Buckingham Palace on Thursday 25…
Lanes Group plc has won a contract to provide facilities maintenance services for the London Underground. The five-year contract, with an option for a three-year extension, is the third maintenance contract awarded by Transport for London (TfL) to Lanes Group in four months. The contract covers all building maintenance work along underground lines, as well…
