Transport News
Lanes Group is working in partnership with London Underground to test technology that aims to solve one of the most notorious drainage maintenance problems on the Tube network. The company is trialling a vacuumation system called Big Brute on the Metropolitan Line north of Baker Street, which is acknowledged as having the most challenging track drainage system on London…
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’s Rail Division has launched its own version of the company’s innovative and award-winning quality tool that uses cartoon pictures to show how worksites must look to be safe and productive. Essential Standards is being used by more than 120 Lanes drainage operatives working on London Underground (LU) maintenance and repair contracts – in…
Lanes engineers have taken drainage inspections along the M6toll around Birmingham into the fast lane with a powerful zoom camera. The Lanes depot at Minworth, in Birmingham, has invested in the UK’s most advanced drainage pole camera to carry out the inspection work for Midland Expressway, which operates and maintains the 27-mile-long motorway from Coleshill…
Lanes Group is demonstrating the vital importance of using effective transport management systems when delivering high quality, sustainable services by clocking up record vehicle mileages at the start of 2014. On just one day, Tuesday 7 January, the entire fleet of 213 Specialist utility vehicles delivering on the company’s Waste Water Infrastructure Contract in London…
Cobalt Park, the UK’s largest office park, has selected Lanes Group to provide reactive drainage maintenance support. The prestigious office park, in North Tyneside, has chosen the Lanes Tyne and Wear regional depot in Newcastle to provide a call out service to unblock drains. Cobalt Park provides high quality office premises supported by amenities such…
Lanes Group’s ‘no dig’ sewer rehabilitation expertise has played a part in paving the way for the construction of the new £1.4 billion Queensferry Crossing. Its drainage engineers have been commissioned to renew storm drains along the approach roads to the new bridge that will link Edinburgh with Fife across the Firth of Forth. They…
