Rail News
Lanes Group has completed significant repairs at a Grade II Listed underground station in West London. West Acton station on London Underground’s Central Line is dominated by a 25 metre high window with 20 reinforced concrete pillars. Lanes Group’s Rail Division has repaired the concrete pillars, restoring the impressive window to how it looked when…
Lanes Group has carried out major repairs to a pedestrian railway bridge on the London Underground. The bridge across the Central Line at White City, in West London, is used by London Underground workers to reach a signal box and staff accommodation. Regular inspections had established that there was a risk that pad stands, upon…
Lanes Group has used its pipe relining expertise to help preserve the original look of one of the world’s oldest underground railway stations. Its engineers were called in by London Underground to reline the inside of Victorian cast iron roof columns which, for more than 150 years, had taken rain water from the roof of…
Lanes contracts manager Hus Ibrahim celebrates his 50th birthday today, but says: “I don’t feel 50, I don’t look like I’m 50 and I don’t think like I’m 50.” He also said: “I’ll get that Matt Todd!” That was when he was told it was Lanes Rail Division Commercial Director Matthew Todd who had suggested…
Lanes Rail Division has won a contract from London Underground to refurbish a bridge over the Piccadilly Line in West London – the second commission of its kind in less than 12 months. Work is due to begin in the next month on cleaning, repairing and repainting the pedestrian bridge in Rayners Lane, South Harrow….
Lanes Group’s Rail Division has transformed a “unique” but ugly drainage pump house at end of the Northern Line in South London. Work on the building close to Morden Station, in South Wimbledon, included cladding the external walls in plastic panels and waterproofing the roof, significantly improving what had become a local eyesore. London Underground…
Lanes Group has struck gold in a hat trick of safety awards for its work on the London Underground. The Lanes Rail Division has been given a Gold Award by London Underground (LU), in recognition of its continuous improvement in safety culture. Two Lanes site supervisors, Rob Wesley and Paul Bettis, received individual awards for…
Lanes for Drains got to the bottom of persistent flooding at one of the UK’s largest cement works – and saved the company tens of thousands of pounds it expected to have to spend to cure the problem. Lanes engineers based in Sheffield were called in to investigate the flooding of a railway track on…