Rail News

Lanes Rail Division rises to challenge to reduce track flood risks

06/10/2015

Lanes Group has supported railway improvements to minimise flood risks by relocating a track drainage pump in work that also involved removing asbestos piping. The company’s rail division completed the project for main contractor Osborne after just 48 hours of planning and within one seven-hour track possession. Lanes Rail Division Network Rail Manager Eamonn Maloney…

Lanes Group shortlisted for two international rail awards

28/09/2015

Lanes Group has been named as a finalist in two categories for the Global Light Rail Awards 2015 for its development of aerial drone surveys. The national drainage and maintenance specialist has been shortlisted for Technical Innovation (Infrastructure) and Supplier of the Year (Over EUR10m) in the prestigious awards. The Global Light Rail Awards, now…

Hus honoured by 7/7 anniversary invitation

07/07/2015

Hus Ibrahim of the Lanes Group’s London depot has been invited to a service to mark the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in the capital which killed 52 people and injured hundreds more. Lanes is a facilities management contractor for London Underground (LU) and provides manpower, equipment and services for unusual situations on the tube network. Underground bosses…

Lanes Group wins biggest rail bridge painting project

17/06/2015

London Underground has commissioned Lanes Group to paint a major railway bridge on the Jubilee Line in West London. The four-month project to strip and paint the 100-year-old bridge on the line between Kilburn and West Hampstead will require enough paint to cover an area the size of 30 tennis courts – or one and a quarter full-sized…

Lanes supports flexible rail upgrade with drainage survey

16/04/2015

Lanes Group has been called in to survey and clean drains along a railway track as part of a project to increase the capacity of one of the UK’s busiest main rail routes. Its engineers worked with counterparts from Network Rail and Carillion to carry out a detailed survey of track drainage on the Great…

Platform repairs at London Underground station

16/04/2015

Lanes Group has carried out concrete support and platform repairs at Northfields tube station in West London. Piers supporting platforms and nosing stones, which edge the platforms, were repaired at the station on the Heathrow branch of the Piccadilly line. Lanes Group’s Rail Division carry out the work at the station, which is on an…

Lanes launches drone for rail structure inspection

16/04/2015

Lanes Group has carried out the first survey of a London Underground building using an aerial drone. The drainage and maintenance specialist’s rail division carried out the project at the Neasden Lifting Shed in west London. It teamed up with unmanned aerial systems company Unmanned Aerial Technology Ltd to carry out the drone survey, heralding…