Rail News

Lanes Group completes repairs at Listed Tube Station

14/04/2015

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 gives pedestrians a big lift with repair project

14/04/2015

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 refurbishment transforms unique rail pump house

12/09/2014

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…

Flooding Solution at Cement Works

19/03/2013

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…