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Lanes Rail has won a contract to deliver drainage maintenance services on four of Transport for London’s sub-surface and deep level Underground lines. It has been awarded the entire Lot 2 drainage contract for Sub-Surface Lines (SSL) and BCV Lines. Previously, Lanes had shared the contract with Skanska. The contract covers drainage maintenance work on…
Transport for London has re-awarded contracts to Lanes Group to maintain structure and drainage assets associated with the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly underground lines. The awards, made under Lot 3 of TfL’s asset maintenance procurement process, means Lanes Group has retained all contracts currently held. Under TfL’s new procurement regime, designed to streamline its maintenance…
Drainage engineers from Lanes Group have been doing some drain spotting, not train spotting, at Bolton Railway Station to help prepare for a £1 billion electrification of rail services. The comprehensive line and level survey across all platforms at the station in Station Street, Bolton, was carried out over five nights. A two-person CCTV drainage…
Lanes Group drainage engineers have begun the task of carrying out a survey of tunnel drainage along the 7km-long Severn Tunnel. The company has been commissioned by Amey, working for Network Rail, to carry out the surveys in the tunnel, which for over 100 years was the longest main line railway tunnel in the UK….
Senior London Underground managers have praised Lanes Group drainage teams for helping to keep open dozens of the capital’s biggest tube stations during torrential thunderstorms. In a few hours, central London was inundated with 100mm of rain, the amount usually expected to fall in a whole month, causing major flash flooding. Over 12 hours,…
Celebrity selfies with a TV star, the biggest, baddest jet vac tanker in the UK and some of the hottest drainage technology to boot – Lanes Group is attracting strong interest at Rail Live. It is the first time that Lanes Group’s Rail Division has demonstrated its services alongside colleagues from the Rail Division of…
Lanes Group plc is planning its attendance at Rail Live 2016 with military precision – to showcase the future of rail track drainage support. The company is taking the world’s most capable off-road jet vac tanker to the event on 22 and 23 June. The JHL 8×8 jet vac tanker has been designed for military…
Lanes Group has carried out its largest ever Network Rail station upgrade project, attracting praise from main contractor Balfour Beatty Rail for the professional and safe way it completed the work. Lanes teams worked in partnership with Balfour Beatty Rail colleagues to realign a platform and replace subways at Maidenhead Station over Christmas 2015…
