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Lanes Group has carried out its first aerial drone survey at a London Underground station. The company’s rail division carried out the roof survey using the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) at Amersham Station on the Metropolitan Line. Lanes Group had previously successfully carried out a drone roof survey on a large maintenance depot, and wanted…
Disability cricketers sponsored by Lanes Group were invited to form a guard of honour at one of the top county cricket matches of the season. They took part in the starting ceremony at the NatWest T20 Blast match between Middlesex and their closest rivals, Surrey, on Thursday 23rd July at Lords’. Lanes Group sponsors the…
Lanes Group is donating a life-saving defibrillator to a school in Essex as part of a national drive to help people in local communities who suffer potentially fatal cardiac arrests. Stifford Clays Primary School, in Grays, in Essex, is the second school in the UK to be given the equipment as part of the drainage and maintenance specialists’ ‘Protecting…
Hus Ibrahim of the Lanes Group’s London depot has been invited to a service to mark the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in the capital which killed 52 people and injured hundreds more. Lanes is a facilities management contractor for London Underground (LU) and provides manpower, equipment and services for unusual situations on the tube network. Underground bosses…
Drainage survey camera technology provided by Lanes Group has been used to carry out a structural inspection of one of the deepest railway tunnel shafts in the UK. A CCTV drainage survey team supported the inspection of the 120 metre ventilation shaft for the Ffestiniog tunnel on the Conwy Valley Line in Snowdonia, North Wales. The tunnel is Britain’s longest…
Lanes Group has carried out a CCTV survey of two kilometres of track drainage on the Brighton Main Line in support of work to improve drainage in a nearby tunnel. A team of 16 drainage engineers carried out the work in 10 hours on a stretch of line north of Haywards Heath Station. Bam Nuttall, working on behalf of…
Lanes Group has deployed an innovative combination of trenchless drain rehabilitation techniques to support the development of a £570m new tramline in Nottingham. A combination of ultraviolet and hot cure pipe relining was used in a sewer strengthening project that won Lanes a UKSTT Renovation Award 2014 (under £250,000). The Lanes Reline Division team had to carry…
London Underground has commissioned Lanes Group to paint a major railway bridge on the Jubilee Line in West London. The four-month project to strip and paint the 100-year-old bridge on the line between Kilburn and West Hampstead will require enough paint to cover an area the size of 30 tennis courts – or one and a quarter full-sized…
