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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 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…
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 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…
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 jetting engineer John Addison has taken the plunge for the RSPCA in a swimming challenge in memory of the pet dog he called his best mate. John, who has worked for the Lanes Preston depot in Bamber Bridge, Preston, for four years, has completed the 100×100 swimming challenge at his local public pool…
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…
