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Rail is key to Northern delights CONNECTING THE RAIL INDUSTRY

Great Western: Electric sparks not yet flying Is it a red or green light for signalling revolution? written by

Christian Wolmar

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PHILIP HOARE Atkins

The wider economic and social costs of HGV transportation

How to mitigate risk in the rail supply chain

PHILIPPA EDMUNDS

SUZANNE O’KEANE

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Freight on Rail

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Welcome to the June edition of Rail Connect, a quarterly publication available both online at www.railconnect.co.uk and in print format. After years of neglect, the railways in the North are suddenly attracting the interest of ministers eager to show that they want to create a ‘Northern Powerhouse’. We begin on page 4, with Christian Wolmar looking at the potential financial risks of transforming the North. Continuing, Kevin Bell, Partner of Bond Dickinson considers the plans that may bring us one step closer to the creation of a ‘Northern Powerhouse’ or whether the North still remains a long way from real rail devolution (8). On page 22, Christian reviews the electrification of the Great Western line and assesses why progress has been delayed and costs have soared. We also hear from Andy Warhurst, Plant Operations Manager at Keltbray Rail about his experiences from working within the rail industry and we get a behind the scenes look at his everyday role at Keltbray Rail (26). Philip Hoare, Group Managing Director, Transportation Division at Atkins features in this editions Q&A on page 28. Furthermore, Suzanne O’Keane, Community Manager for Rail and Transport at Achilles discusses what steps rail firms need to take to mitigate risk in the supply chain (32). In addition, Julian Worth, Chair of the CILT Rail Freight Forum highlights how traditional markets for rail freight are shadows of their former selves and to survive and prosper, rail freight is changing (34). Following research by Campaign for Better Transport to better understand the costs of HGVs, Philippa Edmunds, Freight on Rail Manager looks at the wider economic and social costs of HGV transportation on rail (36). In-cab signalling is seen by Network Rail as a great opportunity to boost capacity and make the railways more efficient. Christian considers some of the doubts about the plan to speed its introduction into the network (40). Also, on page 42, Phil Dubery, Director at CPC Rail Systems speaks about optimising rail systems across the UK rail industry. Rail Safety Solutions provide us with our health & safety article on page 44, looking at safely transporting workers to and from the work place. We conclude this edition with Newcastle Rail Academy (48) and Enscite (52) explaining how they are both helping grow skills for a 21st century railway. We thank you for your support and hope all of our readers are continuing to find this publication a useful communication tool to bridge the gap between buyers and suppliers in the rail industry.

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CONTENTS INDUSTRY NEWS

Rail Delivery Group, Director General and ATOC Chief Executive to stand down Rail Supply Group launches ‘Open-Doors’ to support SMEs Ricardo announce plans to create international rail business

Fears raised over HS2 impact on regional rail projects Hitachi Rail Europe debuts conceptual high speed train interiors

First new Crossrail tracks laid in Southeast London Todmorden Curve reopens after £10m railway investment Bigger trains and changes for Cumbria’s coastal rail route

DB Schenker Rail UK launches Eco Neutral for zero carbon rail freight New siding at £250m Stafford rail development will cut deliveries by road Increasing rail and water freight will cut road congestion

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FEATURES

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Rail is key to Northern delights After years of neglect, the railways in the North are suddenly attracting the interest of ministers eager to show that they want to create a ‘Northern Powerhouse’.

Rail North devolution – The first steps towards a Northern Powerhouse?

The electrification of the Great Western is well underway but in one of the worst kept secrets in the industry, progress has been delayed and costs have soared.

A day in the life of a Plant Operations Manager Rail firms need to take steps to mitigate risk in the supply chain Enscite taking action to boost rail skills

The traditional markets for rail freight – coal and steel – are shadows of their former selves. To survive and prosper, rail freight has to change – and is doing so.

The wider economic and social costs of HGV transportation

SIGNALLING

Electric sparks not yet flying

Is it a red or green light for signalling revolution? In-cab signalling is seen by Network Rail as a great opportunity to boost capacity and make the railway more efficient. However, critics are expressing strong doubts about whether a plan to speed its introduction is feasible.

Rail Management: Optimising Rail Systems

HEALTH & SAFETY

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TRAINING

Q&A

Rail freight is changing – and rapidly

Philip Hoare, Group Managing Director, Transportation Division, Atkins

Growing the skills for a 21st century railway

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Rail is key to Northern delights

Great Western: Electric sparks not yet flying Is it a red or green light for signalling revolution? written by

Christian Wolmar

with

The wider economic and social costs of HGV transportation

How to mitigate risk in the rail supply chain

PHILIPPA EDMUNDS

SUZANNE O’KEANE

PHILIP HOARE

Atkins

written by

Freight on Rail

written by

Achilles

INDUSTRY NEWS • ELECTRIFICATION • Q&A • RAIL FREIGHT • SIGNALLING • HEALTH & SAFETY • TRAINING • DIRECTORY

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FEATURE: NORTHERN POWERHOUSE

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After years of neglect, the railways in the North are suddenly attracting the interest of ministers eager to show that they want to create a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Northern Powerhouseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; but there are risks that plans will exceed the amount of money available to pay for them.

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ust before the election, the Department for Transport rushed out a document pushing for the Northern Powerhouse, the new buzzword to describe policies that are designed to boost economic growth in the North. It was in fact jointly produced with the Local Enterprise Partnerships, the various Northern city regions, and a host of other agencies such as Network Rail and HS2. In other words, a great effort at the sort of co-ordinated thinking which has often been lacking in the past and it has a strong emphasis on rail as the mode of transport that will deliver the greatest benefits for business in the region. This represents a big change in government thinking in relation to the Northern rail network. Indeed, there are several positive signs that the railways in the North, which have long been seen as something of a Cinderella service, may now at last be getting the attention and the investment they deserve. This has partly been stimulated by the decision to build HS2. There seems to be something

of an awareness in ministerial circles that simply creating a line connecting Manchester and Leeds with London will not be enough, and that the current slow and irregular services on old fashioned trains in the region must be improved.

The problem with the railway is that everything is interconnected and this is particularly true of electrification. For many years, politicians in the North have argued that they are not getting their fair share of rail investment and that it is all going to the south. At last, it seems their lobbying is no longer falling on deaf ears. This is helped by the growing realisation that the success of what could be called London powerhouse is the excellent transport facilities in the capital, particularly railway based.

FEATURE: NORTHERN POWERHOUSE

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However, channelling money into the railway network in the North is not as simple as giving a big grant to Transport for London to help pay for Crossrail. There are numerous stakeholders, several levels of local government and various other players that make investment schemes complicated. There is even a Rail North group of local authorities which has a say over the Northern franchise and a Transport for the North group comprised of a smaller group which is seeking a £15bn transport investment programme in the region. Progress is being made, however, though possibly inevitably with some delays. The first schemes have gone under the banner of the Northern Hub which was first conceived over five years ago as a way of sorting out rail

bottlenecks around Manchester but quickly expanded to include a wider remit, most notably the Ordsall Chord. This will connect the city’s three busiest stations – Victoria, Oxford Road and Piccadilly – in particular relieving pressure on Piccadilly by reducing conflicting movements. However, work on many aspects of the Hub has progressed more slowly than expected and will not be completed until 2019, by which time it will be possible to run 700 more trains every day in the Manchester area. The Northern Hub has become somewhat entangled with the electrification programme. The problem with the railway is that everything is interconnected and this is particularly true of electrification. The electrification programme has suffered – or perhaps, rather, benefitted – from mission creep. Initially there were only plans to

electrify the route between Liverpool and Manchester and a few other connecting routes with the West Coast Main Line, but it quickly became clear that this partial electrification would cause anomalies and result in many diesel trains having to run under the wire. Therefore the government created a task force to look at 32 different routes that could be electrified and in its final report published in March chose 12 routes that are scheduled to have the wires up by 2024, a quite ambitious programme according to industry insiders. The same issues are apparent with rolling stock. Initially all the extra electric trains were to be cascaded from Thameslink which was getting new trains, but as more routes were being earmarked to be fitted with wires, it became apparent that new trains would be needed. Moreover, pressure has grown on the Department for Transport to ensure that the hated

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FEATURE: NORTHERN POWERHOUSE

Pacer trains are eliminated at the end of 2019 when new disability legislation comes into force. This led to a preelection row between the Transport Secretary, Patrick McLoughlin, and his permanent secretary, Philip Rutnam who argued, in his role as the Department’s accounting officer, that the purchase of the stock would not be value for money. McLoughlin overruled him, as he is able to do, but this shows the pressure the politicians are under to fulfil promises about improvements in the North. Looking forward and building on the Northern Hub, the Invitation to Tender for the Northern and TransPennine franchises is generally good news but there are also questions to be answered. Last year, the Department for Transport agreed to devolve part of the responsibility for the franchise to Rail North, a group representing 33 local authorities in the region and the local authorities’ influence clearly had

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an impact. Compared with the original franchises deals let in the aftermath of privatisation when no growth was assumed, it is now accepted that increased demand requires investment to enable more services to be run – the ITT promises services on selected routes between main cities to be doubled which will require 200 extra daily services – an increase of just under 10 per cent. Other benefits such as free Wi-Fi on trains, various station improvements and ‘a communities improvement fund’. While devolution is to be welcome, the different demands of the local authorities may come into conflict given there is only ever going to be a limited amount of cash. The idea of a Transport for London type body covering the region from Liverpool to Hull, which has been mooted, is a very long way off.

Despite all this welcome progress, the idea of a Northern Powerhouse is a major step change and consequently would require multiples of the money allocated so far which has been around £1bn, for the Northern Hub and a few tens of million for improvements for the new Northern franchise (and rather more for the rolling stock). By contrast, the booklet for the Northern Powerhouse mentions virtually halving the current journey time between Manchester and Leeds, and Manchester and Sheffield to 30 minutes, which would require massive new infrastructure costing billions though none of it has been costed in detail. Finding even a part of this budget, in an age of austerity, will require – and demonstrate – real commitment from the new government.

Images: Top: The Chancellor of the Exchequer visiting Manchester Airport station to launch the start of work on the Northern Hub. Bottom: The first Northern Rail electric train to operate between Liverpool Lime Street station and Manchester Airport station. Both images © Network Rail

FEATURE: RAIL NORTH DEVOLUTION

RAIL NORTH DEVOLUTION – THE FIRST STEPS TOWARDS A NORTHERN POWERHOUSE?

Words: Kevin Bell Partner of Bond Dickinson

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Following the agreement of a formal partnership between the Department for Transport and Rail North which seeks to begin the process of devolving more responsibility for specifying and managing passenger services to local authorities in the North of England, Kevin Bell, Partner of Bond Dickinson considers whether these visionary plans bring us one step closer to the creation of a ‘Northern Powerhouse’ or whether the North still remains a long way from real rail devolution. One of the clear outcomes of last year’s Scottish referendum is the emergence of a clear consensus and imperative for further devolution in England. Being able to devolve greater responsibility for decision making on transport matters to local authorities is key to any argument for decentralisation as, unlike some other policy areas, devolution in transport matters on a practical level. It can bring real and tangible

improvements to local transport and to the everyday lives of ordinary people. With devolution of more powers and funding, people could get more and better rail services and improved smart ticketing options (and thus cheaper and more convenient travel).

With devolution of more powers and funding, people could get more and better rail services and improved smart ticketing options (and thus cheaper and more convenient travel). Yet currently transport in England is highly centralised. Local government outside London has limited transport powers, limited funding and limited

freedom to use the money it has. Passenger rail franchises are mostly subject to franchises let by the Department for Transport (the Department) in London.

So why devolve transport? When local decision making is devolved, transport gets more priority and more funding. This is clear in Scotland and Wales, where since devolution there has been a significant increase in investment, including the reopening of railway lines and electrification. Devolution has also made a huge difference in London, which has seen a total transformation of transport since Transport for London was created and the Mayor has had a hand in controlling some of the rail services. In fact, the devolution of control over local rail services to local authorities in London and Merseyside has led to significant improvements in lifting ordinary inner suburban

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This new agreement is intended to give the local transport authorities more say in how the two key rail franchises in the North of England (the Northern and TransPennine Express (TPE) franchises) are run. In fact, Rail North has actively been involved in the design and specification for the reletting of these two franchises and will look to play a role in the evaluation of the bids. Under the agreement, the Department will work together with Rail North, through a single joint strategic board and management team based in Leeds, to manage and develop the two franchises once they are let. It is anticipated that a core team of five headed by a new Managing Director will be in place by the end of the year.

Devolution of rail franchises of course fits in with the localism agenda of all three main political parties as well as showing that Whitehall cares about the North as well as the South-East. services from the bottom of the league tables, in terms of performance and passenger satisfaction, to the top. It has long been argued that devolving transport powers and funding works because local decision makers know they will be made accountable by voters and local media for transport shortcomings. They are in the best position to identify opportunities for pooling available funding sources and they recognise more clearly the key importance of better transport to the wider economic, social and environmental aims.

The Rail North partnership So it was with much fanfare that the Government announced in March this year that a major step had been taken towards devolution of rail services in the North of England after a formal partnership agreement was entered into with Rail North (the body which represents 29 local transport authorities from across the North).

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Importantly, however, the agreement includes mechanisms to enable the Rail North authorities to make decisions on changes to their local services and make investments in the franchises to make improvements. It also enables further devolution to take place during the life of the franchises.

Still a long way from genuine rail devolution? Yet the cynics out there believe that the creation of this single integrated partnership structure will still not allow for the development of an inclusive decision-making structure that will inform and set the future direction for rail in the North of England. One only has to consider the ‘hokey-cokey’ nature of Government support for rail devolution (‘in, out, in, out...’) before questioning the appetite of the Department to let go of so much power to Rail North. Devolution of rail franchises of course fits in with the localism agenda

of all three main political parties as well as showing that Whitehall cares about the North as well as the South-East. Devolution is also seen as part of the deal that will guarantee support for HS2 from areas which feel that they have been left out because so few stations are planned for the line. Losing central control does, however, go against the habits of national politicians and so it comes as no surprise that the new partnership agreement includes a detailed list of ‘reserved matters’ for which the Department retains sole and unfettered responsibility. Then there is the daily headache that will be faced by Rail North due to the large number of local authorities that form the ‘shareholder’ body. One would hope that policy matters could presumably be formed at a local rather than a national level but there is no such thing as a Government of the North of England and little likelihood that one could be created on the basis of history. Harmony between the numerous different voices on both sides of the Pennines or between Teesside and Tyneside will undoubtedly be difficult to achieve. There is also the wider question as to whether or not any real input has actually been made by Rail North into the refranchising process for the new Northern and TPE franchises (and whether this is a sign of things to come in the future even under a partnership structure). For example, despite long campaigns by passenger groups and the incessant complaints of passengers in the North as to the ‘bus on wheels’ Pacer rolling stock, Rail North seems to have had little say in preventing the Department in taking the decision that this rolling stock will continue to rattle along the tracks well into the 2020s. That is not to say, however, that an effective form of devolution to Rail North cannot be achieved. A change in Government could give this new partnership additional political impetus. Yet the driving force should remain with Rail North itself in ensuring that it builds upon the foundations of the new partnership agreement with the Department to deliver strong management of the new Northern and TPE franchises and identify further schemes for investment in the railways in the North of England. Only then can we be sure that the ‘Northern Powerhouse’ has not thrown in the towel before the fight has even begun.

INDUSTRY NEWS

RAIL DELIVERY GROUP DIRECTOR GENERAL AND ATOC CHIEF EXECUTIVE TO STAND DOWN The Rail Delivery Group (RDG) has announced that Michael Roberts will be stepping down from the combined roles of RDG Director General and ATOC Chief Executive at the end of December 2015. Michael Roberts said: “It has been my privilege to serve the railway and its customers through the work of the RDG and ATOC. I am proud of the support we have given the railway during a time of sustained growth, and in framing the debate about the future of rail. “After more than seven highly eventful years, I have decided that professionally and personally the time is right for me to move on, and to hand on the important task of helping industry players work together for a better railway. “I am extremely grateful to Martin Griffiths for the support which he, as RDG chair, has given me in making this decision. I would also like to thank the many talented and dedicated colleagues in my team and across the industry, without whose support my job would not be possible. I look forward to continuing to work with them as the search begins for my successor.” Martin Griffiths, Chairman of the Rail Delivery Group and Chief Executive of Stagecoach Group, said: “I would like to thank Michael for the major contribution he has made to Britain’s railway and improving its capacity to meet the needs of customers and our economy. His leadership has delivered an expanded and strengthened executive team at the Rail Delivery Group, which has championed better services for both passengers and freight customers.”

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RAIL SUPPLY GROUP (RSG) LAUNCHES ‘OPEN-DOORS’ TO SUPPORT SMES

RICARDO ANNOUNCE PLANS TO CREATE INTERNATIONAL RAIL BUSINESS

The ‘Open-Doors’ scheme is designed to help fast-track products and services from SMEs into Train Operating Companies, OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers and larger businesses across the rail industry. The initial trial of ‘Open-Doors’ is being supported by: Network Rail, South West Trains, Siemens, Carillion, HS2, Bombardier, Alstom, Knorr Bremse and Atkins amongst others. Open-Doors’ is the result of research undertaken by the RSG’s ‘SME Workstream’, which is jointly led by Perpetuum’s Roy Freeland and Siemens’ Paul Copeland. The work-stream identified that many SMEs were unable to identify how to cost effectively submit innovative products to large organisations. ‘Open-Doors’ aims to address this by providing a single senior contact within large companies who can ensure rapid evaluation of SME products and provide appropriate feedback or champion product adoption. Roy Freeland, Managing Director, Perpetuum and RSG council member said: “The RSG Council believes that SMEs have a vital part to play in making the UK rail supply chain more competitive. It is in the interests of the whole rail Industry to encourage SMEs to invest in developing innovative products and services. To help encourage this we need to provide SMEs with the easiest possible access to potential customers.”

Large suppliers who would like to support SMEs through Open-Doors are invited to email: Open-Doors@railsupplygroup.org

Ricardo has announced that it has signed a Share and Asset Purchase Agreement to acquire the business, operating assets and employees engaged in the businesses of LR Rail, from Lloyd’s Register Group. The total cash consideration is £42.5m, subject to any adjustment to reflect normalised levels of working capital. Ricardo will acquire the whole of the issued share capital of Lloyd’s Register Rail Limited and Lloyd’s Register Rail Europe B.V. together with various other assets relating to the rail business of Lloyd’s Register Group Limited and the group of companies of which it is the ultimate holding company. The acquisition will be materially complete on or before 1st July 2015 and the business will operate as the core of a new international rail business within Ricardo Plc and combined with Ricardo’s existing rail industry expertise, to be branded Ricardo Rail. Current LR Rail Managing Director, Paul Seller, will take on the role of Managing Director of the Ricardo Rail business. Ricardo’s growth strategy is underpinned by global challenges related to urbanisation, resource scarcity, air quality, climate change, energy security, sustainability and waste. This acquisition is central to the delivery of growth in Transportation and Security, one of the company’s three strategic pillars alongside Energy, Scarce Resources and Waste. The acquisition of LR Rail and the future growth of this business is driven by the increasing global interest in urban and high speed networks and the integration of critical and complex rail technologies as governments respond to accelerating levels of urbanisation.

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FEARS RAISED OVER HS2 IMPACT ON REGIONAL RAIL PROJECTS Vital regional rail projects could be severely impacted as skilled rail workers are diverted onto HS2 construction, according to one of the UK’s leading suppliers of skilled labour to the rail industry. The stark warning, which has been issued by Birmingham-based Auctus Management Group, comes in the wake of increasing concerns in the rail industry over the lack of skilled labour which is being exacerbated by an ageing workforce. “In Birmingham alone, an extra 8,300 new jobs will be created including nearly 1,000 construction jobs and more than 800 operational and maintenance roles as a result of HS2. At face value this is extremely positive news for the rail industry and the West Midlands economy, but does not come without problems,” says Richard Toy, Chief Executive of Auctus Management Group. He continued: “Initial estimates suggest that this skilled labour requirement will drain planned regional rail projects of circa 7 per cent of current rail force labour and 15 per cent of skilled signalling and telephone workers. If the current shortages of skilled labour continue it is inevitable that HS2 will drain labour from existing regional rail projects.” Phase one of HS2, between Birmingham and London is due to start construction in 2017 and is expected to average approximately 11,500 full time employees per month with a peak monthly workforce of circa 34,000 workers.

In total, HS2 is expected to create circa 24,000 construction jobs across the UK, but Mr Toy says Network Rail already has a shortage of approximately 5,000 skilled workers across the UK to deliver its planned works. “There is already a skilled labour shortage for rail construction and maintenance, but HS2 threatens to exacerbate the problem dramatically. Figures I have seen suggest that Network Rail faces losing a further 15% of its workforce to HS2 construction.” Mr Toy says the roots of the rail skill shortage problem lies in an ageing workforce and a lost generation of rail workers. “The average age of signalling and telephone workers in the rail industry is now 55 and by the time HS2 is being constructed these same people will be close to retirement. “The problem lies in the fact that working on the railways was traditionally a family affair in this country, with sons following fathers into the sector. However, in the 1980s we lost a generation and the sons of those 55 year-olds are not following their fathers onto the rails. “The key to solving this skills crisis and delivering both HS2 and other regional rail projects lies in not only offering apprenticeships to 16-24 year-olds, but also in providing funding to train the 30-45 year-olds whose fathers worked on the railways. We need to bring back the lost generation.”

HITACHI RAIL EUROPE DEBUTS CONCEPTUAL HIGH SPEED TRAIN INTERIORS In a global exclusive, Hitachi Rail Europe released images of the conceptual train interior for its very high speed train at Railtex 2015. These images have been produced with the help of extensive user research and passenger studies, and build upon Hitachi’s expertise in delivering rolling stock for HS1 and the iconic Shinkansen trains in Japan. The high speed offering has been designed with the growing needs of passengers now and in the medium to long term, forming part of Hitachi Rail Europe’s headline vision for the future of high speed rail travel in the UK. Visitors to the Hitachi Rail Europe stand at Railtex could physically explore the concept of the new very high speed virtual concept through a 3D imaging showcase and a fully immersive virtual reality walkthrough. Visitors also had the opportunity to learn more about Hitachi Rail Europe’s Class 800 train for the Department for Transport’s InterCity Express Programme (IEP). In addition, the stand profiled Hitachi Rail Europe’s signalling and traffic management systems as well as an update on the stateof-the-art rail vehicle manufacturing facility in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. You can view more of the images online by visiting the following website address: www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/hitachirail-eu/ pressreleases/hitachi-rail-europe-tolaunch-interior-concepts-for-a-britishbullet-train-nec-birmingham-12-14-maystand-j11-1151010

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FIRST NEW CROSSRAIL TRACKS LAID IN SOUTHEAST LONDON

TODMORDEN CURVE REOPENS AFTER £10M RAILWAY INVESTMENT

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Work to install a new two-mile section of track between the Crossrail tunnel portal at Plumstead and Abbey Wood station is now half complete. More than a mile of new track has been laid by Network Rail so far, representing the first section of dedicated Crossrail track to be installed anywhere along the route. Work has included the re-alignment of the existing North Kent line, which serves trains between London and Kent, and the replacement of the Church Manor Way footbridge. Ahead of Crossrail services beginning in 2018, the tracks will now be used to support the fit-out of the new tunnels to create a fully functioning railway beneath the streets of London. Matthew White, Crossrail Surface Director said: “Crossrail will help to transform Abbey Wood, providing a step change in public transport and encouraging investment and development in the local area. At peak time, 12 Crossrail trains an hour will make it significantly quicker and easier to get to range of destinations across London and the South East.” Crossrail represents the single biggest addition to the local rail network since the North Kent line was built in 1849. From 2018, a train every five minutes during the peak will allow residents to travel right through the capital without having to change trains. The journey from Abbey Wood to Canary Wharf and Bond Street will be around 20 minutes quicker and passengers travelling to Heathrow will be able to cut around 40 minutes off their journey.

A key new section of railway in the North West of England has reopened providing a direct link between Manchester and Burnley for the first time in over 40 years. The 300m-long Todmorden Curve was used by the first Northern Rail trains in May following a £10m investment from Burnley Borough Council, Network Rail and Lancashire County Council. The new section of rail provides a vital link between the lines from Preston to Hebden Bridge and Manchester Victoria to Leeds and removes the need for rail customers to change at Preston or Hebden Bridge, reducing journey times by up to 25 minutes between Manchester Victoria and Burnley. Terry Strickland, area director for Network Rail, said: “The reopened Todmorden Curve is a significant improvement to the railway in this part of the country and will allow services to run directly between Manchester Victoria and Burnley Manchester Road for the first time in decades. We have worked closely with Burnley Borough Council, Lancashire County Council and Northern Rail to make this happen and it is an excellent example of partnership working to help deliver a better railway for passengers.” Alex Hynes, Managing Director for Northern Rail, commented: “We are delighted to be able to celebrate this milestone in railway history with our partners. We’re committed to bringing better services, improved stations and a wealth of local opportunities to the region and this new service is a positive step in the right direction for all concerned.”

A new timetable for the Cumbrian Coast was launched in May with the introduction of two locomotive hauled trains along the route adding much needed seats for customers. Bigger trains with more space will provide additional capacity on this popular route and have been provided by a partnership deal brokered by the Department for Transport and Northern Rail. Nine loco-hauled services will operate per day, supported by 44 Northern diesel services delivering 80,000 additional seats per year. Arrival and departure times will change and the loco-hauled trains will also look completely different. Working together to support the new venture, Direct Rail Services (DRS) will provide the trains with Northern operating the services. Alex Hynes, Managing Director for Northern Rail, is passionate about the additional capacity on the line: “The improvements along the Cumbrian Coast do mean changes to a number of services and we appreciate it will take time to get used to them. However the addition of the locomotive trains brings thousands more seats every day, improving journey experiences for our commuting customers and offering more space for visitors to this fantastic region throughout the summer.” Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said: “A quality rail service is vital to the local economy and tourism industry in Cumbria, which is why we have worked with Northern to bring these much-needed improvements to the region.”

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DB SCHENKER RAIL UK LAUNCHES ECO NEUTRAL FOR ZERO CARBON RAIL FREIGHT

NEW SIDING AT £250M STAFFORD RAIL DEVELOPMENT WILL CUT DELIVERIES BY ROAD

INCREASING RAIL AND WATER FREIGHT WILL CUT ROAD CONGESTION, SAYS NEW RESEARCH

Eco Neutral from DB Schenker enables customers to compensate in full for the CO2 emissions generated through their rail freight services by backing climate change projects that transfer technology and combat poverty across the globe. DB Schenker Rail UK has partnered with climate protection organisation, Atmosfair, which acts to protect the climate by compensating greenhouse gases through the use of renewable energies, to deliver the scheme. DB Schenker Rail UK calculates a customer’s CO2 emissions from their rail services to determine how much it will cost to compensate. The calculations take into account distance, weight, payload capacity, backload statistics, traction type, and fuel/electricity consumption. The customer can choose which project they wish to fund in order to compensate their CO2 emissions. Examples include the generation of clean electricity through wind turbines or a biogas support programme to guarantee an environmentally friendly energy supply. Steve Pryce, Head of Marketing at DB Schenker Rail UK, said: “We are continuously striving to minimise the impact of our operations on the environment and are proud to launch Eco Neutral as the first truly zero carbon rail freight product in the UK.”

A major rail development near Stafford is on track after workers built a siding on the existing West Coast main line so that materials can be delivered by train. The installation of the railhead – a siding on the West Coast main line at Little Bridgeford – will allow track materials and ballast to be delivered to the site, reducing lorry deliveries and traffic on nearby roads. The work is part of the Stafford Area Improvements Programme which will remove the last major bottleneck on the West Coast main line at Norton Bridge, allowing more passenger and freight services to run between London, the Midlands and the North West. Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of earth have been moved at the site near Norton Bridge and eleven new bridges are being built along with 10km of new track to allow separation of fast and slow lines. The work is being delivered by the Staffordshire Alliance – a partnership of Atkins, Laing O’Rourke, Network Rail and VolkerRail. Staffordshire Alliance Manager, Matt Clark said: “This is a real milestone for the programme and we’re delighted to have the railhead in place.” Network Rail Senior Programme Manager, Ian Jones said: “We’d like to thank rail users and our local communities for their patience, particularly over the bank holiday weekend. “The works in Stafford are of local and national benefit for passengers. It was essential we completed the work on time and means we can now get materials to the site by rail.”

Getting more freight onto rail and water could significantly reduce road traffic, improve congestion and be better for the environment, according to new research carried out for Campaign for Better Transport. Government research has played down the potential benefits of the transfer from road to sustainable methods by only looking at national averages across all strategic roads. But this new research also looked at specific routes which typically tend to be more congested because of more long-distance HGV traffic, particularly to ports. HGV traffic overall could fall by 21 per cent, and congestion could fall by 15-25 per cent were rail and water freight both to increase by 50 per cent on these routes. Philippa Edmunds, Freight on Rail Manager, Campaign for Better Transport, said: “While the Government is committed to investing significant funds in the railways and in rail freight in particular, it has underestimated the full extent to which this investment could reduce road congestion. “The Government should take account in its forecasting and modelling, and in its policy and spending, the potential to shift HGV traffic to rail and water and the congestion, safety and pollution benefits of doing so.”

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23RD ANNUAL RAIL FREIGHT GROUP CONFERENCE

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8TH – 11TH RAILWAY ELECTRIFICATION INFRASTRUCTURE AND SYSTEMS (REIS) Royal College of Physicians, London Tel: 01438 767 639 Web: www.theiet.org/reis

17TH – 18TH ANNUAL UK LIGHT RAIL CONFERENCE Nottingham Conference Centre

8TH TOMORROW’S RAIL CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION London Tel: 01462 743776 Web: www.tomorrowsrail.com

15TH – 17TH RAIL NEWCASTLE CONFERENCE 2015 Newcastle University Web: http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/railnewcastleconference

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25TH RAILWAY ELECTRIFICATION – UPDATING THE NETWORK FOR THE 21ST CENTURY Thistle Marble Arch, London Tel: 0207 973 1258 Web: http://events.imeche.org

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FEATURE: GREAT WESTERN ELECTRIFICATION

ELECTRIC SPARKS NOT YET FLYING

The electrification of the Great Western is well underway but in one of the worst kept secrets in the industry, progress has been delayed and costs have soared.

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ritain has long lagged behind other major nations in terms of the proportion of its track that has been electrified. Over the next few years, this will change as parts of the network in the North will be wired up as well as the most busy parts of the Great Western. The Great Western is the biggest electrification programme since the East Coast Main line was wired by British Rail in two phases stretching between 1976 and 1991. Although in the intervening period much expertise has been lost, there was a determination not to make some of the same mistakes, notably cutting corners which has led to a high number of failures of the catenary particularly at times of high wind. The plan, announced initially by the Labour Government in 2009, is to electrify the route from Paddington (in fact mostly from Airport Junction as the Paddington throat was partly electrified when Heathrow Express opened in 1998) to Newbury, Oxford, Bristol Temple Meads and Swansea (following agreement with the Welsh Assembly to extend the wires beyond Cardiff). By the time details were announced by the Coalition government, it was hoped that much of the work would be completed by the end of 2016,

allowing suburban trains, cascaded from Thameslink, to be operating services, as well as the new IEP Hitachi stock running to Bristol Parkway. Bristol Temple Meads was to have been reached.

Electric trains have faster acceleration, are cleaner and more reliable, attract increased numbers of passengers – ‘the sparks effect’ – and are more fuel efficient. The case for electrification is irrefutable and it is only the traditional government’s parsimony with capital investment that created the 20 year hiatus which meant that virtually none of the network has come under the wires since the early 1990s. Electric trains have faster acceleration, are cleaner and more reliable, attract increased numbers of passengers – ‘the sparks effect’ – and are more fuel efficient. The downside is that initial costs are higher.

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However, despite hopes that the plan could go off smoothly, the programme is proving far more difficult – and inevitably expensive – to bring to fruition than had been expected. At the outset, it seemed that technology could be the saviour. An enormous new machine – the High Output Plant System – would speed up the installation of pylons, carrying out the whole process of excavation and installation simultaneously while allowing the adjoining line to remain open and reduce the cost. Initial estimates were that the work would be completed for around £700m (plus a bit extra for the extension to Swansea). The machine, which is based at Swindon, is capable of installing up to 20 pylons in one overnight shift.

However, technical difficulties and delays have increased the cost three fold, with the latest – unofficial – estimate being £1.74bn, a figure that may actually be conservative given continued difficulties. However, technical difficulties and delays have increased the cost three fold, with the latest – unofficial – estimate being £1.74bn, a figure that may actually be conservative given continued difficulties. There are various reasons for the slow progress. The piling machine initially had teething problems and when work started, the lack of experience with the system being installed, the new NR Series 1 overhead line equipment manufactured by Austrian firm Furrer+Frey meant that not as much work as hoped for could be carried out. The overhead equipment is the first in the UK which will allow 140 mph running and this

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clearly means reduced tolerances and higher tension being required. Piling, too, has at times been difficult with ground conditions proving to be either too soft or too hard. Fortunately hitting hidden cables with consequent disruption to the network has only happened rarely. Winning over local people has also proved problematic. With up to 100 bridges and tunnels having to be altered, at times local motorists have had to undertake 10 mile detour because of closures. It is, at times, not only a matter of raising bridges but sometimes the parapets need to be made higher to avoid people being able to reach the wiring. While all of this could have been predicted, the scale and variety of the work was, insiders admit, underestimated. There has, too, been consternation about the visual aspect. According to a Network Rail insider, ‘one angry resident could not understand why trains could not simply coast through the section around Bath as the pylons would ruin the view of Brunel’s brilliant coup de theatre, his viaduct over the city’. More understandably, the noise of pyling at night has provoked complaints about which Network Rail is powerless to do much. Work is yet to start on the most difficult aspect of the scheme, the electrification of the 7km long Severn Tunnel. It is not the length which is the problem, but the permanent dampness which necessitates a continuous pumping operation. As with several tunnels in Switzerland, the idea is to have a type of rail as the overhead conductor, rather than a wire, and it will be protected by a canopy to keep out the water. While none of these difficulties should be minimised, at root this is good news. Electrification cements rail’s position as a key form of transport in the UK and the electrification programme shows that the government means business in terms of funding the modernisation of the industry. It is just perhaps inevitable that given the long hiatus and the loss of expertise, there are more than a few bumps along the road.

A DAY IN THE LIFE: PLANT OPERATIONS MANAGER

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A PLANT OPERATIONS MANAGER With: Andy Warhurst Plant Operations Manager, Keltbray Rail Keltbray Rail is part of Keltbray Group and provides electrification design and build, as well as rail and civil engineering solutions and plant services for the rail industry across the country. The company plays a key role in maintaining and developing Britain’s infrastructure and in recent years, its pipeline of work has remained ahead of the market. Today it has a strong order book with workloads until 2021 after the company became the delivery partner for ABC Electrification and Costain for several rail electrification framework contracts.

eltbray is currently working on key rail routes to make them faster, quieter and more reliable; supporting regional and low carbon economic growth on routes, such as the Welsh Valley lines, Crossrail Anglia and the London North West (South) line. Andy Warhurst is Plant Operations Manager for Keltbray Rail. He started out in the health and safety department for Jarvis, where he worked for nearly a decade before joining Keltbray Rail five years ago. He has enjoyed being part of Keltbray’s growth and has seen his career go from strength to strength in parallel with the company’s development; touching numerous disciplines, from construction to electrification and now plant operations. Andy is based in Keltbray’s Crewe office together with his nearly 400 colleagues. “We are well positioned for the rail network and are able to provide nationwide coverage from here. Crewe is often referred to as the cradle of the railway industry, which means we’ve been able to tap into local skills and expertise in line with our growth.” While Andy is based in Crewe, his job frequently takes him out of

the office, onto the railways: “In my role as Plant Operations Manager, I am responsible for developing Plant Operations Scheme Packs. These are produced for each of the jobs we undertake to comply with our Network Rail Plant Operating License.” The packs are produced to ensure Keltbray safely plans, controls and supervises any plant required. “Once we’ve won a job, my work begins” explains Andy. “As part of the initial phase, I will make a visit to the location where the job will be based to survey the site. I walk the site and carry out risk assessments by considering any potential hazards that may be encountered by our teams. I then make recommendations as to how these should be handled and specify any plant to be used and the positioning of this, depending on requirements. “In addition to risks, I also consider issues, such as access, before presenting my Plant Operations Plan to the wider project team. This is done well in advance of the project start to resolve any conflicts of interests and minimise any risks associated with the project,” he continues.

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Andy continuously keeps on top of new industry developments to specify plant as effectively as possible. Just in the past two years, Keltbray has invested more than £8m in state of the art rail plant and equipment, and now owns one of the largest road rail vehicle fleets in the UK; counting nearly 100 vehicles. “It’s critical that I fully understand the benefits of this new equipment so that I specify it effectively as part of the planning process,” he says.

“I walk the site and carry out risk assessments by considering any potential hazards that may be encountered by our teams.” While Andy carries out most of his work during office hours these days, Keltbray operates an on-call system, which means Andy makes himself available to the work teams as required; be it day or night, weekdays or weekends. He has also been known to still join the teams on the tracks: “Most of our jobs take place at weekends to minimise train downtime, and so we only have a short window to complete the jobs. I may join the teams to conduct audits, but will also work the odd shift on the tracks here and there if we are short staffed, or if someone has been double booked. “These days, I’m glad I don’t have to do it every day, though, especially on a cold winter’s day! But it’s useful to keep a hand in. It goes with the territory, and your colleagues appreciate the support. It also gives you a flavour for the difficulties they are up against, which again helps improve my planning skills,” he says. About the best part of his job, Andy explains: “While I enjoy the banter and the hustle and bustle of the office, I get the greatest buzz from seeing a site job completed well and on time. From Cornwall to Scotland; there are not many railway lines in the UK I haven’t worked on. I’m proud of that, and like to bore my family with it. They probably think I’m a right train spotter when we pass a railway, and I say I helped build that!”

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Q&A: PHILIP HOARE, GROUP MANAGING DIRECTOR, ATKINS

PHILIP HOARE GROUP MANAGING DIRECTOR, TRANSPORTATION DIVISION, ATKINS What made you want to follow a career in the rail industry? I had the opportunity to move onto a new challenge, where I could meet new people and learn a new technology. They say you get bitten by the bug and I definitely have!

What do you enjoy most about your role as Group Managing Director at Atkins? I feel privileged to lead such an unrivalled team of people who are able to tackle some of the most exciting and challenging transportation projects in the world. Our Transportation division is the largest in Atkins bringing together over 3,000 experts from the UK and India alone. It certainly keeps me on my toes!

I previously headed up the Atkins Highways and Transportation business and over the last 18 years of my career spent in transportation, I have witnessed many changes and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pretty exciting market to be in. I can honestly say my experience in the industry has been wonderful.

What rail projects is/has Atkins been working on in the UK and Europe? What type of projects does Atkins look to attract? We have diverse expertise and experience spanning all disciplines in the highways, rail and local transport markets both in the UK and overseas. Whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a transport interchange, or the detailed design of a high-speed rail line, no scheme is too big or too

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complex for us. At Atkins we hope to attract the biggest and most complex projects for our talented people to work on. Atkins are part of a multidisciplinary team thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remodeling and refurbishing Birmingham New Street Station, one of the busiest stations in the UK. We are also part of the team delivering the ÂŁ250m Stafford Area Improvements Programme, which by 2017 will boost capacity and reliability on the West Coast Main Line with two extra fast trains per hour between London Euston and the North West.

I feel privileged to lead such an unrivalled team of people who are able to tackle some of the most exciting and challenging transportation projects in the world. We are also involved in the Cardiff area signaling renewals, designed to modernise the signaling equipment across 192 miles of track between Newport and Port Talbot. And of course Crossrail, where a joint team of Arup and Atkins engineers are designing the twin tunnels being bored beneath central London. I am happy to say we have recently won the four-year contract to provide Building Information Modelling (BIM) technical services to HS2 Ltd. Further afield, Atkins are helping to deliver the most important combined upgrade in passenger and freight train services in Europe. The European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) is being implemented across 3200km of track on the Danish rail network. The project promises a radical improvement in safety, performance and capacity, and opens up the possibility of running non-stop trains across all borders.

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Q&A: PHILIP HOARE, GROUP MANAGING DIRECTOR, ATKINS

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What developments do you expect to see in the next 5 years at Atkins? In 2020 we want to be the best we can be. That means continuing to put our clients at the centre of everything we do, working more collaboratively and exploiting technology whenever possible. Winning and delivering exceptional work will help us continue to attract the best people in our industry, which can only serve to secure repeat business and increase the satisfaction of our clients. And looking to the future, we are exploring new signalling technology to help modernise the railway and pave the way for a digital railway.

Atkins is involved in rail projects around the world, in your opinion, how does the UK rail industry compare with other countries? It is really good that transportation is represented in many international projects. All projects, and all countries, have their own characteristics but there are some common themes, such as a heavy emphasis on safety, technical complexity and the need for a multidisciplinary approach. All of the major equipment suppliers deliver internationally, for instance the suppliers in the Danish ERTMS programme, which Atkins have been supporting since 2009, are well known to us in the UK and elsewhere. Broadly speaking most European countries adopt a similar approach, however I admire the ability of some countries such as the Danish and Norwegian nationwide ERTMS programmes which take a ‘big picture’ approach re-equipping their entire networks in a single project. Also the Metro projects in Saudi Arabia and Doha Qatar, designed in a short space of time with new innovation every day. In the UK we are a bit slower but we can learn

lessons, while of course continuing to maintain safety. Perhaps the digital railway concept could be a step towards this approach.

individuals to bring new innovations to the mix, because they are open to them and have the ability to apply them.

What can UK rail learn from other countries with strong rail infrastructure?

What opportunities does Atkins provide for someone that wants to follow a career in rail?

It is perhaps too easy to think that the grass is always greener. The UK – with our active support – has always been a leader in the railway world. Crossrail for instance, where we have made a significant contribution is seen as ‘world leading’ in other countries. The size of Britain, the fact that our country is relatively crowded and economic necessities have meant that it is more difficult to deliver some ‘mega’ projects (such as a High Speed network) than in less densely populated countries. However in all countries with an effective railway infrastructure there is a need for a strong local pool of technical competence and we are pleased to be so well represented in the Scandinavian countries, the middle-east and the far-east.

A career at Atkins offers the opportunity to work in a diverse range of largescale infrastructure projects. We have a worldwide outlook and I believe provide rewarding careers for talented people. During my time here I have had the opportunity to work on many exciting projects all over the world and we provide continuous learning opportunities to give people the valuable skills they need to help shape the future of transportation. Within the Atkins’ rail business graduates work as part of a team and play a significant part in creating and rolling out the next generation of transportation across the globe. With record investment in infrastructure, now is a great time to work in rail as there are plenty of opportunities for people to come in and shape their careers with us.

If you could change anything about the UK rail industry, what would it be and why? Bringing the signalling system up to scratch is vital. The European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) will modernise the UK rail industry by enhancing capacity and improving safety. A key feature of ERTMS is an Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system which applies a train’s brakes automatically if there is danger of a potential collision.

What advice would you give to someone that wants to follow a career in rail? To gain experience in different areas and complex environments where there are lots of challenges. Well-rounded experience enables

Where do you see the UK rail industry in 10 years? Global demand for high speed rail is expected to grow rapidly over the next 15 years. Connected cities quickly evolve into city regions, even mega regions and this can only deliver both short and longer-term economic benefits. New technology relating to ticketing, passenger preferences and overall travel patterns, informed by Big Data, will prove similarly influential. And I hope the onset of the digital railway pushes and challenges our industry to become more fastmoving, agile and innovative in the future.

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FEATURE: RISK MANAGEMENT

RAIL FIRMS NEED TO TAKE STEPS TO MITIGATE RISK IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN

Words: Suzanne O’Keane Community Manager for Rail and Transport, Achilles

Community Manager for Rail and Transport at Achilles Suzanne O’Keane discusses how rail companies can gain accurate and up-to-date information on their suppliers in order to effectively manage and mitigate risk in their supply chain.

The survey found UK business had been faced with incidents including fatalities, cable strikes and falls. In the months following these events, the companies involved were also impacted by financial and reputational damage.

Supplier failure in health and safety and financials is impacting companies serving the rail sector across the UK but firms still remain confident they are adequately managing risk. In a recent market survey, more than three-quarters (78%) of large UK companies said they were confident the way they managed their supply chain helped them successfully identify and manage risk. But, in the last 12 months, almost a third (32%) of large UK companies had experienced issues due to a supplier’s financial instability. Almost one in five (17%) had experienced problems due to a supplier’s poor health and safety practices.

Rail firms all have an entrenched responsibility to ensure all of their employees, contractors and subcontractors are able to return home safely at the end of every shift. Further, 14% of large UK companies did not know how many of their main suppliers were considered to be high risk. High risk was defined in the survey as those suppliers whose

failure could damage a company’s financial or reputational standing or ability to operate normally. The market survey was commissioned by Achilles, which provides services for the Railway Industry Supplier Qualification Scheme (RISQS), to pre-qualify and verify suppliers on behalf of more than 110 buyer companies. The survey was conducted by independent research company IFF, which interviewed 106 UK companies with no links to Achilles and with more than 250 employees. In 2013-2014, the UK rail industry experienced three fatalities across the entire UK rail workforce and more than 6,000 workforce injuries on the mainline infrastructure, according to the Office of Rail Regulation’s Safety Key Statistics 2013-2014 annual statistical release. Safety has long been paramount in the rail industry and in the past decade we have seen great strides made to improve safety standards.

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The survey asked UK companies to explain the impact the failure of a supplier had on their business. This is what they had to say: “We’ve had fatalities and cable strikes (hitting cables underground) which resulted in financial cost and reputational damage.” “Safety practices needed to be reinforced. We had notices from clients about safety practices.”

Rail firms all have an entrenched responsibility to ensure all of their employees, contractors and subcontractors are able to return home safely at the end of every shift. But, this survey suggests that some rail firms may not be able to fulfil their responsibility because they simply do not know the risk profile of their supplier. So, how can rail companies gain accurate and up-to-date knowledge about their suppliers’ health and safety and financial credentials? Prevention is the key to minimising any risk. In our experience, this is best achieved through a combination of three processes – gathering comprehensive information on suppliers in business critical areas, assessing each supplier using a risk matrix and performing wide-ranging audits on those deemed to be high risk. We estimate that businesses spend about $60bn worldwide managing information about their suppliers – yet there are still gaps in their data.

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Knowledge is power when it comes to managing and mitigating risks. We have found the best way to gather business critical information including health and safety policies, financial records and anti-bribery and corruption policies is for companies to work together to create standards suppliers must adhere to, to be considered for work. Firms should then create a centralised, up-to-date database of suppliers’ information so they can carry out the correct

We estimate that businesses spend about $60bn worldwide managing information about their suppliers – yet there are still gaps in their data.

due diligence proactively and protect themselves from risk. Once the business critical information has been obtained, rail firms can then use an established risk matrix to determine what the level of risk a supplier poses to a company. This model can be tailored to include project specific and work specific requirements. Finally, a site audit allows a company to determine if their high risk suppliers are operating in accordance with their own policies. This ensures that companies are not simply play ‘lip service’ to important issues such as health and safety and financial stability. Completing these steps gives rail companies the information and tools to make smart and informed decisions about their suppliers and supply chain to proactively manage and mitigate risk.

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RAIL FREIGHT IS CHANGING – AND RAPIDLY

Words: Julian Worth Chair, CILT Rail Freight Forum

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he traditional markets for rail freight – coal and steel – are shadows of their former selves. Very soon, there will be only one deep mine in the UK and even imported coal is set to decline as the country moves away from burning coal to generate electricity. To survive and prosper, rail freight has to change – and is doing so. Two markets are growing rapidly to take the place of coal and steel. One, a bulk material, is aggregates; the other, transporting fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), is intermodal. Until the 1970’s the market for aggregates by rail hardly existed – sand and gravel was dug locally around towns and cities but, particularly in London and the South East, these deposits were gradually being worked out. The replacement was crushed rock from quarries 100 miles or more from London and millions of tonnes of limestone and granite a year are now transported by rail from the Mendips, Leicestershire and the Peak District to the South East and, increasingly, into other conurbations such as Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds. As a network of terminals has developed to discharge these major volumes, other smaller flows have started, such as sea-dredged sand and gravel from Thamesside wharves to concrete plants around London and high quality gritstone from South Wales, which provides anti-slip surfaces approaching roundabouts and major junctions. The level of construction activity is closely linked to economic growth and the building industry is currently very buoyant in both the domestic and commercial sectors. The quarry companies are boosting output and are focussing investment at major raillinked facilities to enable the increased demand to be met in an efficient and environmentally-friendly manner. This

is mirrored in the cement industry, where a handful of strategic production plants use rail to supply markets across the UK. The rail freight industry’s response has been to match customer investment with increasing numbers of more powerful locomotives capable of hauling bigger trains that produce substantial economies of scale, enabling rail to become even more competitive in the market.

Even at current levels, over 2000 containers a day are sent by rail, mostly to terminals in the Midlands, the North West and Yorkshire, keeping a similar number of lorries off the A14. Turning to Intermodal, the move of manufacturing to South East Asia has led to vast numbers of containers arriving at Felixstowe and Southampton, conveying the goods we all buy in the supermarkets and DIY centres. In parallel, many retailers and logistics companies have set up major distribution centres to receive these imports and despatch them to stores around the UK. Many of these National Distribution Centres (NDC’s) are in the so-called Golden Triangle, bounded roughly by the M1, the M6 and the A50, whilst others are situated along the M62 corridor in Lancashire and Yorkshire. In both cases, rail is the preferred mode for clearing the containers in large numbers from the ports – Felixstowe despatches (and receives) 30 trains a day of up to 35 wagons and would generate more if capacity

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was available on the branch from Ipswich – a project on which Network Rail are working. Even at current levels, over 2000 containers a day are sent by rail, mostly to terminals in the Midlands, the North West and Yorkshire, keeping a similar number of lorries off the A14. Southampton generates around 15 trains a day to the same destinations, which take around 1000 lorry journies a day off the A34. As well as the Deep Sea business, long distance domestic hauls of FMCG have started to switch to rail, particularly on Anglo-Scottish routes – there are now six trains a day from Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT) to Central Scotland, carrying goods from the NDC’s mentioned above to stores in Scotland, often returning with whisky and Scottish mineral water. Arranged by Scottish logistics operators J.G.Russell and W.H.Malcolm, plus Eddie Stobart, these trains are made up of consignments from Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda, the Co-op and many other household names. Rail’s environmental advantages are important to these companies – the amount of carbon generated is reduced by 67 per cent where the load is transported by rail rather than road – and some 500 lorry journeys a day on the M6/M74 are thus avoided. That said, cost remains the main driver for most companies and rail is clearly competitive for these long distance movements. This is even more true where the NDC is located at a railhead, saving the cost of an onward road haul to final destination. Tesco have built a 1 million square foot railconnected distribution centre at DIRFT and Sainsbury’s are commissioning a similar warehouse at the same location. By reducing the cost of getting a load onto the rail network, Tesco have found that rail can be competitive over much shorter distances and now send a

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daily train to Cardiff to supply stores in South Wales and, over an even shorter distance, to Barking and Purfleet, supplying stores in Essex, Kent and around the M25. In both case, containers return loaded wherever possible with produce from suppliers in the area to feed into the national supply chain.

Relocating their distribution centres to rail-head locations is probably the biggest single thing a company can do to take cost and carbon out of their supply chain. Similarly, in Scotland, Tesco supply their Highland stores by a train from Mossend to Inverness and Asda do likewise with a train from Grangemouth to Aberdeen, supplying their stores in North East Scotland. It is worth noting that the first instance of a retailer using rail in modern times took place in Scotland, when Safeway built a fleet of temperature-controlled containers in the late 1990’s to use rail from Mossend to Inverness and Georgemas Junction in Caithness. This early movement was successful but stopped when Safeway was taken over by Morrisons and the competition authorities insisted that the Highland stores be sold off to other companies, whose distribution facilities were located well away from a railhead. Relocating their distribution centres to rail-head locations is probably the biggest single thing a company can do to take cost and carbon out of their supply chain. Crucial to the

growth of domestic intermodal is thus the creation of such facilities and considerable effort is being made to identify suitable sites and work with planners to bring these new complexes to fruition. Many will be in the Golden Triangle, which is likely to remain the epicentre of UK distribution, but sites are also needed in the areas where Regional Distribution Centres (RDC’s) are concentrated – Central Scotland, the M62 corridor on both sides of the Pennines, around the Severn Estuary and around the M25. Alongside growing Deep Sea container volumes and the development of domestic intermodal routes, the Channel Tunnel is starting to reawaken as a route into the UK. Eurotunnel have reduced their charges by 25 per cent and HS1 allows European gauge containers to reach Barking, while the advent of open access on the Continent means a wider choice of operators and better reliability. Major multinationals who use rail extensively across Europe are now starting to look anew at the Channel Tunnel and Proctor & Gamble have, since autumn 2014, used a daily train – arranged by J.G.Russell – from Lille to Barking to bring products into the UK and export goods from their UK plants to the Continent. A number of other major companies are considering a similar switch. With growth on all three fronts – Deep Sea, Domestic and Channel Tunnel – the Intermodal sector is set to increase considerably in the years to come. It will probably be bigger than Coal in 2015, making up around a third of all rail freight in the UK, and it is not inconceivable that it will be approaching 50 per cent of all rail freight by the end of the decade. From less than 10 per cent at the time of privatisation, this is a transformation indeed and the UK leads the world in taking rail into the huge consumer goods market.

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THE WIDER ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COSTS OF HGV TRANSPORTATION Words: Philippa Edmunds Freight on Rail Manager

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s the newly formed Office of Rail and Road is now responsible for analysing the costs of both modes, Campaign for Better Transport commissioned research to better understand the costs of HGVs as there had already been detailed focus on rail freight costs and its externalities in the run up to last review carried out by the Office of Rail Regulation. Rail and road complement each other; therefore it is important that the different modes play to their strengths. For example, rail is well placed to provide long distance trunk haul services at lower external costs than road. We believe that the Government needs to recognise road costs in discussion about rail freight costs. This research focuses on what HGV costs are and to what extent, taxes and charges are covering these costs so that policy implications can then be understood in both directions, with road and rail being examined across the piece. It does not undertake to make direct comparisons between road and rail freight costs, including externalities, in this research. In fact the latest research, found a high level of distortion of the market across all modes, as HGVs pay less than a third of the costs associated with their activities, such as road congestion, road collisions, road

damage and pollution which equates to an annual subsidy of around ÂŁ6.5bn. These conclusions are in line with a MDS Transmodal study in 2007 which found a very similar amount of underpayment: ÂŁ6bn.

Rail and road complement each other; therefore it is important that the different modes play to their strengths. Our study suggests that the Government should have a holistic approach and treat all modes equally and deliver its policy on a balanced playing field, recognising the value equation between freight subsidy and the direct and indirect benefits to the UK economy. The latest revelations show that there is a strong case for equivalently supporting rail through lower rail freight access charges and continued upgrades to the Strategic Rail Freight Network, along with other key routes in order to allow rail to compete more fairly with HGVs. Otherwise, the external costs will continue to be a huge problem to society and the economy.

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Although the financial framework for rail and road are different, it is generally accepted that in both cases, revenues from moving people (in fuel duty, VED and fares) are to some extent used to support the movement of goods. The latest findings are based on the Government’s updated calculation of the financial values of removing HGVs from our roads using revised Mode Shift benefit values (MSB), which were issued at the end of December 2014 and are used to calculate the costs and designed to recognise the wider advantages of water and rail which currently support less than fifteen per cent of rail traffic, for example. While the December 2014 revised values give a more accurate evaluation of lorry track costs, the figures highlight that the Government’s understanding of the costs and impacts of lorries with regard to collisions, infrastructure costs and congestion are flawed. The cost of road collisions involving HGVs are undervalued by the Government. The costs have been further reduced even though the DfT’s own statistics show that the ratio of HGV involvement in fatal accidents on minor roads has been steadily increasing. The DfT costs each fatality at almost £2m per death. Research found that HGVs were six times more likely to be involved in fatal accidents on minor roads than cars in 2013 as opposed to 4 times more likely in 2010. As there is a consensus that transport infrastructure is needed for economic growth, neither road

nor rail freight pays their full capital Infrastructure costs. However, as rail freight pays for the track wear it causes there is a strong case that the same principle should apply to HGV’s, given that HGVs are up to a 160,000 times more damaging to road surfaces than a typical car because of their weight.

A long term, stable and affordable charging regime which enables direct competition with road freight would make it much easier for rail freight to compete. Currently, HGVs do not pay maintenance costs for the damage caused on A and minor roads, which is far greater than on motorways because these roads are not constructed to a higher quality to cater for HGVs, unlike motorways. It can be argued that fuel duty does cover maintenance costs on motorways, but this only represents around 2 per cent of the road network. It is worrying to see that the congestion values are still too low even though congestion is being used to justify a massive road building exercise in the Government’s Road Investment Strategy. Congestion imposes

significant costs to UK PLC; the Freight Transport Association claimed that road congestion cost businesses £24bn per annum in 2011. In summary, this research highlights that the Government needs to be transparent so that the level of subsidy is acknowledged and mechanisms can be used to correct these distortions. The scale of subsidy to HGVs makes a compelling case for equivalently supporting sustainable freight modes, which impose much lower costs on society and the economy. A long term, stable and affordable charging regime which enables direct competition with road freight would make it much easier for rail freight to compete. On-going investment in the Strategic Rail Freight Network and other key routes to enhance capacity and capability for more diversionary routes would add resilience to the network, making the rail freight offering more viable. Continued and expanded rail freight grants which are awarded in recognition of the value of removing HGVs from our roads are only paid for the actual containers removed from the road network, these grants are fundamental to maintaining rail freight traffic. This analysis is designed to help the Government and the industry work together to service the economy in the most viable and sustainable way, irrespective of the mode of transport.

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SIGNALLING: SIGNALLING REVOLUTION

IS IT A RED OR GREEN LIGHT FOR SIGNALLING REVOLUTION? In-cab signalling is seen by Network Rail as a great opportunity to boost capacity and make the railway more efficient. However, critics are expressing strong doubts about whether a plan to speed its introduction is feasible.

Words: Christian Wolmar

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here has always been a demand for new technology on the railway because it reduces costs and allows greater efficiency. However, while it is relatively easy to develop new gadgets and widgets that will bring about improvements, introducing them to the railway has always proved more difficult. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because the railway is a huge asset consisting of investment spread over decades or even centuries and melding in new equipment always creates difficulties. Moreover, the railway has to keep running, often at a level that is almost at full capacity. Therefore there is always a compromise to be had over the need to introduce new kit and the concerns about disrupting operations. Nowhere is this more true than signalling. Renewing the signalling has to be done on a relatively large scale as whole sections of old equipment are replaced by new and technically far more advanced material. And the biggest challenge of all is facing Network Rail. Its chief executive, Mark Carne, who has come from the oil industry, is adamant that the rail industry

must adapt to new technology far more quickly than it has in the past and, in particular, should move to in-cab signalling far faster than previously scheduled. There are two reasons why he sees this as important. First, after the initial investment, in-cab signalling (which is called ETCS, European Train Control System, and is part of a wider move towards digital control of the railways generically called ERTMS, European Rail Traffic Management System) will be far cheaper to maintain as there will be no external weatherexposed signals to look after and which will also mean far greater reliability. Secondly, though, and without this the investment would never get a positive business case, in-cab signalling will generate enormous extra capacity. For example, at a recent conference, Andrew Simmonds, the chief rail systems engineer for Network Railâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Digital Railway, argued that ERTMS would be a great driver for economic growth as it would enable capacity increase of 200 per cent on the West Coast Main Line, 171 per cent on Thameslink and 154 per cent between London Waterloo and Woking.

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There are other advantages, too. During disruptions, the bi-directional capability of ETCS means improved operation of the network during disruption due to ETCS’s bi-directional capability, safety will be enhanced because passing signals at danger will be almost impossible, and energy consumption will be reduced due to trains being able to regulate their speed at a consistent level which takes account of conditions on the network. There is even the expectation that journey times could be reduced as signal sighting speed restrictions will no longer be necessary.

The European experience has not been positive with delays to the implementation of ERTMS in several countries where it has been introduced. Carne was surprised when he came into the industry last year that so little effort was being put into adapting technology and in particular has argued that ‘not rolling out ETCS quickly was a missed opportunity’. In a speech to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in the autumn, he set his own staff a task. He said the schedule to introduce ETCS across the network was unambitious given that it would not be completed until 2062. Worse, he argued, while by 2024 only 10 per cent of the rail network would be fitted, around two thirds of the rail fleet would need the capability as it would run on those sections where the infrastructure was ETCS capable. Consequently, at the conference, Carne challenged his own staff to come up with the idea of digitalising the railway by 2029. He stressed, though, ’this is not a plan, I have just set this provocation’. He has created a team, led by, Jerry England, previously Network Rail’s asset management director who has become digital railway director which has been asked to identify any obstacles to completing

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the roll out of ETCS by 2029 and finding ways to overcome them. The aim is that by the end of next year, the team will have developed a case for its accelerated introduction as part of Network Rail’s funding submission for the 2019-2024 period. But can it be done? There is mounting scepticism in the industry. In a robust speech at a conference on ERTMS in March, Anna O’Connor, head of projects at the Office of Rail and Road Regulation, suggested that the railway did not have ‘an unequivocal shared vision’ about the task of introducing in-cab signalling and therefore there was ‘much uncertainty’ which made the project akin to a ‘patchwork quilt’. She went on to say ‘with the sheer complexity of the system, even if there were a shared vision of what it was, delivering it would be a nightmare.’ That is not exactly a ringing endorsement from the regulator. Moreover, the European experience has not been positive with delays to the implementation of ERTMS in several countries where it has been introduced. Despite considerable sums of money being spent, schemes have been subject to lengthy delays and cost overruns. Furthermore, specifications keep on changing as new software systems are being developed. This presents real obstacles to Network Rail, by its own admission, is going through a bad time. A survey of its own customers found that only 40 per cent believe it is doing a good job, down from nearly two thirds a couple of years ago. There are real concerns in the industry that rushing into ETCS at the pace suggested by Carne is just far too ambitious. George Muir, a former head of the Association of Train Operating Companies summed up the feelings well: ‘I really want to see ERTMS and traffic management on the railway. But I want it done in a sensible way by a competent organisation. Instead, we see a company swamped by work, with deteriorating competence and a list of late and over budget projects’. Carne, therefore, has his work cut out to convince not only his own staff that a speeded up introduction of the digital railway is possible, but also the industry at large. It is a tall order.

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OPTIMISING RAIL SYSTEMS

Words: Phil Dubery Director, CPC Rail Systems

During the Olympic Games in the summer of 2012, Transport for London successfully moved more people to a single destination than it had ever done before thanks to the recently upgraded Jubilee Line signalling and control system. The Jubilee Line served the Olympic Park at Stratford as well as O2 venue at North Greenwich. During that period delays caused by signalling on the Jubilee Line averaged only one minute a day even though the timetable was enhanced to provide three peak services each day. This level of performance was a result of the dedication and hard work of TfL operators and the technical supply chain, with the Automatic Train Control system, SelTrac S40, facilitating the necessary enhancements to headways and run times. Even though SelTrac S40 had been a proven technology in Vancouver, Hong Kong and London’s DLR before it was introduced onto the Jubilee Line, applying the system to a complex existing railway was a steep learning curve for all involved. This included applying signalling principles to constrained infrastructure in a way that optimised headways, complex system interactions with

existing and retained legacy systems at boundaries and phased migration stages between signalling and control systems. New philosophies and techniques were developed to optimise system delivery and enable cost-effective testing and commissioning to recover initial project delays, plus to expedite solutions to reliability and performance issues that arose both during system commissioning and during entry into full operational service.

SelTrac S40 works on similar principles as the ERTMS that has been used to provide upgraded and interoperable rail management on the continent. The one team approach embraced by the client and supplier created an environment where the reliability performance of the line reached record levels in time for the 2012 Olympic Games.

All of the good work, lessons learnt and client supplier relationships on the Jubilee Line allowed the subsequent Northern Line signalling upgrade to be delivered in record time, six months ahead of schedule and significantly under budget. SelTrac S40 works on similar principles as the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) that has been used to provide upgraded and interoperable rail management on the continent. In common with other Communication Based Train Control Systems, both systems monitor the position of each train on the line and dynamically control speed and distance between trains through a central control system, removing the need for lineside signals. For the SelTrac S40 system, train spacing is optimised through the use of continuous communication with the trains and ‘moving blocks’ that constantly supervise the train spacing, speed and braking profile to ensure safety is maintained. These types of digitalised rail management systems are very effective in optimising railway capacity and are being adopted in the UK and internationally. TfL’s transition from conventional fixed block signalling to full moving

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block Automatic Train Operation (ATO) on the Northern Line has shown that as an industry we can deliver and implement these complex systems into technically challenging brown field environments.

There are many complex system integration challenges that we will have to proactively address if the performance and capacity benefits are to be unlocked from our existing infrastructure. There are many complex system integration challenges that we will have to proactively address if the performance and capacity benefits are to be unlocked from our existing infrastructure: Crossrail’s CBTC boundaries with Network Rail, ETCS overlay on Thameslink and TfL’s SUP (sub surface programme) signalling upgrade to name a few.

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From our experience on TfL’s Jubilee and Northern Line upgrades and on other systems, we know the following technical issues will arise on all of the above projects:

met, including remote monitoring prior to going live, rigorous offsite testing, the use of simulators in laboratory conditions and the development and deployment of targeted diagnostic tools.

System boundary management – Whether it be a permanent boundary as proposed for Crossrail to Network Rail at Paddington or temporary boundaries for phased migrations as applied for the Jubilee and Northern Line, the key to success is ensuring a thorough understanding of the interfaces and handover procedures. Representative simulation and laboratory testing and diagnostics are essential to ensure live railway testing is kept to a minimum and effective when undertaken.

Perturbation management – The ability to interrogate any system at protocol level will allow for good root cause analysis to take place. On the Jubilee Line upgrade we developed enhanced diagnostic tools to allow us to manage the system information more effectively. This allowed the perturbation process to be managed in a transparent and positive manner with fair and correct attributions and effective corrective measures through strong teamwork.

Entry into service – With customer expectations at an all time high with regards to receiving a reliable service, all upgrades are now commercially incentivised to ensure current performance levels are maintained or bettered by the introduction of a new system, degradation in performance is not an option. The joint teams developed strategies on the Northern Line to ensure these requirements were

Since modern rail systems are converging into broadly similar architectures for train positioning and the processing and distribution of movement authorities to trains, we will face similar challenges for operations and system interactions and diagnostics. As an industry we must see this as an opportunity to share best practice and lessons learned between the various signalling and control system upgrades.

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HEALTH & SAFETY: TRANSPORTING WORKERS

SAFETY STARTS BEFORE YOU GET TO SITE

With: Sean Harrison Development Director, Rail Safety Solutions

The rail industry’s safety record has come a long way in recent decades, but there is still room for improvement, particularly when it comes to transporting workers to site by road. Sean Harrison, Development Director at Rail Safety Solutions, argues that the risk of road accidents and fatalities for rail workers must be addressed. The case of the two welders who died in a road traffic accident in June 2013 should serve as a wake-up-call to the rail industry. Both had been undertaking night work at Langley Junction in Nottinghamshire and were returning home after their shift in a van on the A1.

The exact reasons for the fatality will probably never be known, but the case highlights the risk that irregular shift work poses for the rail sector. The very nature of rail work, involving night shifts and gangs of up to a nine workers, often travelling up to 2 hours to work, is fraught with potential danger. The risk factors are clear. Firstly, some workers use their own vehicles, which might not be roadworthy or ill-suited to regular travelling significant distances. Workers using their own vehicles also cause potential problems at site when parking is limited and domestic houses close-by complain of late night noise from dozens of vehicles turning up.

For many reasons, the use of vans to pick workers up from a central location is popular within the sector. At least in this way a company can have some control by knowing what vehicles are being utilised, managing working hours centrally, knowing the recent work history of individuals being allocated to jobs and what shift patterns they have worked. But even this has its problems. Rail workers, at least one of whom must drive the van, are not professional drivers and companies are responsible for everyone in the vehicle. The designated driver must also have regular licence checks and what is there to stop a ‘volunteer’ driver getting behind the wheel?

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Fortunately, there are some simple things that can be done to alleviate the risks. For example, every single job can be allocated with a minimum of two drivers in order to minimise the risk of fatigue or, wherever possible, have a dedicated non-working driver, who rests while the gang are on track. In all likelihood, this will increase costs for the industry, but the benefits outweigh the negatives in terms of safety. Other improvements include the use of identification key fobs which enables the vehicle to identify who is behind the wheel. Each driver gets a unique key fob that is required for each journey and a key reader to identify the driver is installed on the vehicle’s dashboard, along with a GPS tracking unit. When the vehicle is turned on, the driver presents the key fob to the key reader. For the company this allows the collection of detailed driver information, including the speed, driving style and fuel use by an individual, and the peace of mind that the authorised driver is actually behind the wheel with a valid full driving licence. A further benefit is clear traceability in the event of an accident or incident in terms of exactly who was behind the wheel at the time. However, none of this will solve one of the key issues that the sector faces, namely the transportation of tired workers in the early hours of a morning who have just come off a shift. At Rail Safety Solutions, we have made the decision to invest in the DAWS device, which stands for Driver Awareness Warning System, which has been fitted to 22 specialist Mercedes Benz Vito and Citan vans used to transport safety critical and contingent labour to rail engineering and construction sites across the UK. The warning system is a dashmounted device which focuses on the driver’s retina and measures their ‘blinking pattern’ sounding audible warnings if signs of drowsiness or inattention are detected. It was clear from our own research that our responsibilities needed to extend to the vehicles we were using to transport people to site and that hire vehicles were no longer sufficient. The technology is out there for the rail industry to use, the sector just has to accept that it has a duty of care to its contingent workers that extends beyond the work on site.

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GROWING THE SKILLS FOR A 21ST CENTURY RAILWAY

With: Marc McPake Head of the Newcastle College Rail Academy

lans to invest billions in creating ‘a truly worldclass rail network’ must be underpinned by high level training and skills says Marc McPake, Head of Newcastle College’s new Rail Academy. With the industry seeing the biggest investment in rail since Victorian times and with billions already committed to maintain and improve the country’s rail infrastructure, the need for skilled technicians and engineers is more prominent than ever. Major programmes, including electrification schemes and infrastructure projects, such as Crossrail, Thameslink and HS2 will create a huge demand for higher level training and skills to ensure that they are completed on time and to budget. By the end of CP5 alone it is estimated that around 10,000 new workers will need to be trained and developed – 40 per cent of which just to replace the people retiring.

Mind the (skills) gap The rail industry has an ageing workforce, with 20 per cent of workers aged 55 or over. Failure to address this widening skills gap could have

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start mapping a long, successful career in this industry. The problem we face is that there are still many misconceptions about engineering and the wide range of jobs that there are available. The industry is also still very much dominated by males, so there is a huge job to do to engage more females to study STEM subjects from a young age. We must work with employers and education providers to create high quality courses that renew an interest in engineering and meet the needs of the industry.”

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“The industry is very much at a crossroads in terms of training and skills. Just to maintain the infrastructure as it is now will require around 5,000 new engineers a year.” Developing future talent In response to calls from Government and industry to develop dedicated training facilities that will support rail’s growing need for skills development, Newcastle College has invested £5m in a state-of-the-art Rail Academy. The College based facility is the first of its kind and will provide a training hub for rail engineering, particularly in the North of England. Developed with support from the National Skills Academy for Railway Engineering (NSARE) and Network Rail, the Rail Academy will help the industry address regional and national skills gaps, support further job creation and ensure the vitality of the rail sector in light of a rapidly ageing workforce. The Academy serves all age groups, including young people looking to develop a career in the rail sector, those wanting to change career and employers who need to up-skill their existing work force or simply recruit for future growth.

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TRAINING: NEWCASTLE COLLEGE It is able to blend all aspects of the rail environment under one roof, particularly for signalling, telecommunications, electrification and permanent way. Training resources and equipment include: full indoor (low level) and outdoor (high level) OLE, fully operating and interlocked S&C and S&T equipment, multiple P-way set-ups, latest electronic and PLC testing and monitoring equipment, signalling workshop; and mechanical workshop. The Rail Academy will not only produce the rail engineers of the future, it will also offer a bespoke training venue to help employer’s up-skill existing staff, and train new staff in a safe environment. Full-time diplomas in rail engineering, suitable for all age groups, are currently available.

Bespoke HNC courses and degree courses are also now being developed in conjunction with Industry partners. There are also a wide range of industry standard courses including: OLE – AP / NP / Bonding / OLEC & Maintenance courses, Signalling – SMTH / BS 1&2 / Points Machine Maintenance / Diagram Reading, P-way – TIC / Patrolling & Inspection / Stressing 1, 2 & 3 / NR Qualifications, Small Tools – Hydraulic Stressing Kits / Rail Disc Cutters / Cold Bolt Expansion; and Safety Critical – PTS Training / Level Crossing Safety / Rail Appreciation. Marc said: “The Rail Academy is a great example of collaboration between industry and education. It’s important that everything we do is focussed around the needs of employers as that is what will help us secure the future of rail engineering and create job opportunities for more and more local people every year. “Railways are one of the most challenging environments to work in so there is a huge demand for high quality training. What we have developed at the Rail Academy replicates that environment, but in a safe, controlled way so we can deliver training on real track, with live overhead

wires and fully functioning signalling. I truly believe that what we have here is unique and is an investment that will build on the North of England’s fantastic rail heritage and strong reputation in engineering.” NSARE’s Chief Executive, Gil Howarth, said “NSARE is proud to support this excellent initiative which will provide a centre of excellence for railway engineering training in the North East. It is vital that we attract young people into our buoyant industry – we need a highly competent workforce to support record levels of investment.” The Academy has also received support from former Business Secretary, Vince Cable. He said: “The Rail Academy is an important initiative that will support the Government’s investment in the future of the UK’s rail infrastructure. Developing specialist training and skills is vital in creating the next generation of rail engineers and will provide opportunities for thousands of young people to develop careers in this growing sector. I would like to congratulate Newcastle College on this outstanding facility and wish all of the students every success in the future.” If your organisation is interested in working with the team at the Rail Academy, or if you would like to find out more about training and development for your workforce please email rail@ncl-coll.ac.uk or for more information visit www.newcastlecollege.co.uk/ railacademy.

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ENSCITE TAKING ACTION TO BOOST RAIL SKILLS

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Enscite, the support organisation for companies in the transport engineering supply chain, is focusing increasing effort on the needs of rail sector engineering companies for workforce skills, with a number of initiatives that promise to improve the supply of capable and motivated staff and improve their skills. Working in partnership with the Universities of Derby, Aston and Cranfield, Enscite has already responded to demands for help from businesses with workforce planning and development at many levels, including graduate placements as well as consultancy and training, and is focusing now on a new learning and development programme to support companies in the sector. One aspect of the programme is a free online course designed to share best practice for supply chain companies across Enscite’s three themes of strategy, product and operations. The course is currently under development, but will be a valuable resource for individuals wishing to either learn about how to improve their business performance in all of these areas or dip into specific subjects as and when required.

Patrick Keen, who joined the Enscite team earlier this year in the new role of Project and Partnerships Manager, is leading these learning and development initiatives. Having considerable experience designing, launching and leading initiatives to increase manufacturing competitiveness, as well as expertise in teaching business managers and leaders in ‘servitization’ through previous work at Aston University, he is confident that Enscite can make a difference. Explaining how Enscite’s learning and development programme will benefit rail sector supply chain manufacturers, Patrick said: “There are lots of well-known issues around skills shortages in UK engineering companies. There aren’t enough people wanting to work in engineering, and engineering companies are also constantly having to evolve to respond to the needs for new technologies. We’re focusing on these skills needs, and trying to help fill the gap by working with public and private sector partners to tackle the problem. “One current project is focused on the potential skills gap around low carbon transport technologies where we have been commissioned by D2N2 and Derby City Council to look at how

we might address this in collaboration with Cenex and CleanTech Business. Harnessing modern technology to support learning is one of the areas we are considering and we will be making some strong recommendations when we issue our final report in the near future. “Of course there’s already a plethora of initiatives out there,” he added, “and these can be quite confusing. But with Europe’s largest concentration of rail sector supply chain companies and OEMs on our doorstep in Derby, we have a tremendous opportunity to not only tailor a bespoke package to suit their needs, but also to help transfer ideas and know-how from automotive and aerospace.” Enscite is looking to manufacturers and businesses in the rail sector to give them their ideas and feedback on what they need ‘at the coal face’: “It is vital that we deliver the support, on and offline, that is really needed by all companies along the rail sector supply chain, and would welcome suggestions and ideas in order to achieve this.” Whilst Enscite nears the end of Phase One in its history, the team is looking forward to Phase Two, which will begin in the autumn and coincide with the move to its new

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IVHM a great opportunity for manufacturers

headquarters at Derby’s Infinity Park where it will be the flagship tenant at the Innovation Centre. “The Innovation Centre promises to be a fantastic new space that will attract high tech, innovative businesses that want to re-locate to a state-of-the art iconic building designed specifically for companies operating in – or wanting to access – the transport engineering supply chains,” explains Patrick. “The building will foster collaboration, knowledge sharing and entrepreneurial activity and, we hope, will eventually become the UK centre for supply chain innovation. Our ‘Fab Lab’ promises to provide exciting opportunities for manufacturers looking to prototype or test new products, and the space and environment clearly offers potential for shaping and delivering some exciting new training solutions.” Contract Patrick Keen at Enscite: email: patrick.keen@enscite.co.uk. For more information about Enscite visit: www.enscite.co.uk, Tel: 01332 593551, or follow @EnsciteUK. Derby-based Enscite is supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Regional Growth Fund. Its founding partners are Derby City Council, University of Derby, Aston University and Cranfield University.

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Manufacturing and supply chain businesses were given a rare insight into how Bombardier and Rolls Royce have applied Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM) to their business at a recent event co-hosted by Enscite with CleanTech Business Network, Cranfield University and law firm Geldards. The IVHM event set out to help manufacturers understand the potential opportunities available from the technology.

“IVHM is the transformation of data on a complex vehicle or system into information to support operational decisions and optimise product design, use and maintenance strategies.” Enscite’s Patrick Keen explains: “Enscite is committed to identifying the emerging technologies and practices that currently present some of the greatest opportunities for manufacturers to achieve a new competitive edge and revenue streams. We recognise IVHM as a technology that has the potential to deliver new product, service and revenue opportunities to manufacturers, and hosted the event to help manufacturers learn more.

“IVHM is the transformation of data on a complex vehicle or system into information to support operational decisions and optimise product design, use and maintenance strategies. It is a ‘capability’, comprising a number of technologies which is being applied in a number of sectors. “It is all about gathering and processing information about the condition of a vehicle or its components, and turning that into intelligence about how better to design, operate or service it. Manufacturers are increasingly using this to not just offer a more efficient and reliable product for their customers to use, but also to earn money from maintaining their own products on behalf of their customers – exploiting their product-specific knowledge to the fullest. “Our event included industry case study presentations from Simon Ellis of Bombardier and Dr Steve King of Rolls Royce, as well as experts from Cranfield’s IVHM Centre – Dr Jim Angus and Dr Fan Ip-Shing – who together illustrated not only how, in practice, IVHM has provided these major OEMs with the basis for profitability and growth, but also the opportunities and challenges cascading to other businesses.” He adds: “IVHM is already a big story for rail, as well as the aerospace and automotive sectors, but the principles and practices are also increasingly impacting on other applications, and becoming more and more important as customers recognise the benefits and costeffectiveness of paying for the use of something, rather than ownership – and all the hassles that can come with that.”

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SMARTTRAIN BOASTS REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNICATION PLATFORM Over the last decade, 21st Century Technology has built a reputation as one of Europe’s most innovative systems integrators for the passenger transport industry. From a consultative design process, through to a comprehensive maintenance schedule and support structure, 21st Century Technology’s services have always been targeted at ensuring their customers get the best from the technology installed across their fleet. The expertise 21st Century Technology have acquired in the design, supply, install and maintenance of best-of-breed solutions has led the company to develop SmartTrain – allowing fleet operators to use industry-leading systems across a single communications platform, ultimately giving its customers more control of, and flexibility with, the data being collected. This is in addition to the obvious installation and maintenance benefits of having a reduced physical infrastructure on the train. To demonstrate the potential of SmartTrain, the company has developed a fully operational, 3-carriage demonstration unit at its headquarters in London, and is opening the opportunity to visitors to not only visit the display, but also hold discussions on how SmartTrain could be adapted to their specific needs.

With the transfer of high definition video, CCTV is often amongst the most data hungry technology installed on a train. Fortunately, 21st Century Technology have vast experience in mobile CCTV, and use it to form the base of their communications platform throughout the SmartTrain, utilising the solution’s rationalised network architecture to include a host of other technologies, such as passenger counting, Passenger Information Systems and Timetable Information Systems. The market-leading Forward Facing CCTV solution gives the control centre a driver’s view of a journey. Images can be accessed in real-time, allowing the control centre to determine an appropriate and immediate response while viewing live footage, at the same time as downloading images remotely. The HD footage can be invaluable when reviewing operational events and near misses, conducting driver training and track assessments or providing pivotal data for investigative purposes or criminal investigations. In-carriage CCTV monitoring provides reassurance and protection for staff, passengers and trains. They act as a deterrent to anti-social behaviour and criminal activity and in the event of an incident provide valuable data for investigative purposes. The Driver Only Operation (DOO) system gives a clear view of the side of

a train enabling safe dispatch; particularly useful in the absence of platform guards or at busy stations. An additional dimension is also offered by 21st Century Technology through an overhead monitoring solution to survey the condition of a train’s pantograph and overhead lines. Continual and accurate assessment of this infrastructure ensures the smooth running of the network and can minimise the costly delays that failed overhead lines cause. It is not just mobile technology that 21st Century Technology offers. Protection is extended to platforms and premises through fixed-site cameras with the same quality of footage, download and retrieval facilities. The same goes for the 32,000 km of track, sidings and embankments, including some of the most remote and hazardous locations that the UK’s rail network travels through. 21st Century Technology’s Advanced Monitoring System, which operates in real time via a network of video analytic enabled HD cameras can support rail networks in allocating resources to problem areas quickly and efficiently. 21st Century Technology also offers a range of automatic passenger counting systems. These assist operators in optimising vehicle allocation, validating

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(PIS). Content is controlled via a web-based platform that allows operators to easily and instantly control the information displayed to passengers. 21st Century Technology have also been installing the award-nominated Timetable Information System (TIS), which assists drivers to complete their routes by highlighting performance and timetable discrepancies. Where the SmartTrain demonstration unit truly excels is by showing how data taken from IP-rated systems, and displayed to a broader audience can ultimately offer fleet operators more control, and assist in improving their passengers’ experiences. The interactive unit consists of a 3-carraige train, station platform (including static CCTV, public help points and passenger information screens) and 21st Century Technology’s Advance Monitoring System for rail network and infrastructure vulnerabilities. Walking around each carriage, visitors are able to explore how the solutions work independently and discover the benefits that can be realised through systems integration onto the SmartTrain network, allowing live data access between train, control room and station platform on both the LUL and Network Rail infrastructure. The SmartTrain also highlights the innovation that can arise by incorporating

data from what were previously considered standalone systems, such as linking passenger counting systems and passenger information screens to provide passengers with the loading status of each carriage both on the train, and platforms it is approaching. This can allow passengers to move to the correct area of the platform prior to a train’s arrival, reducing dwell times. Anyone wishing to view the SmartTrain and discuss how systems integration can benefit them, can do so by making an appointment with Garry Bellman, Divisional Manager, via email garry.bellman@21stplc.com or telephone 0786 625 3441.

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KEEPING RAIL ROLLING STOCK CLEAN With: Phil Morgan Infrastructure Manager, Arriva Trains Wales

Arriva Trains Wales operates a fleet that travels over 13 million miles each year. When covering these kinds of distances, its trains pick up their fair share of dirt and grime. To ensure rolling stock is restored to pristine condition after each journey Arriva Trains asked Arrow Solutions, a specialist manufacturer of chemicals for the rail industry, for advice. Arriva Trains Wales’ £2.5m wash plant, where the rolling stock goes to be cleaned, is located at its sprawling Canton depot in Cardiff. Due to the cleaning depot’s relatively central location and its proximity to the river Taff, Arriva Trains Wales needed to make sure the cleaning chemicals it used for exterior washing could easily be disposed of without additional treatment. The train operating company needed to avoid both excessive foaming and the contamination of the soil and the river’s waters. On the other hand the cleaning solution had to be strong enough to wash off all the difficult oil, greases, dirt and grime from rolling stock exteriors. Faced with these challenges Arriva Trains decided to consult its longstanding partner, Arrow Solutions. The recommendation came without delay in the form of Arrow’s pH neutral Ecowash Autoshine detergent.

Exterior train wash “We currently have 134 trains and carriages; so we understandably require a lot of exterior train cleaner,” explains Phil Morgan, Arriva Trains Wales depot infrastructure manager. “We continue to use Arrow’s Ecowash Autoshine exterior train wash as an everyday cleaner because of its neutral pH. This means that we don’t have to treat the product before

disposal; it doesn’t contaminate surrounding soil or water, so we can let it run into the ground for greywater recycling.” Train operating companies must abide by strict consent to discharge rates that are stipulated and enforced by local water boards. These guidelines dictate the pH levels of a company’s waste water to protect the environment. Ecowash Autoshine is pH neutral (8.0-10.0 depending on the dilution); the detergent is fully biodegradable and can be easily disposed of. More aggressive cleaners would not be suitable for daily washes and would damage sensitive galvanised or aluminium surfaces. Conversely, Ecowash Autoshine removes all types of soiling from rolling stock whilst helping to build a water and soil resistant finish, without damaging train exteriors. At the Arriva Trains Wales’ Canton depot Welsh Water carries out tests every six weeks to ascertain that waste water pH levels are within the accepted limit.

Disinfectant “The other Arrow Solutions product that we use in bulk is the Germfree 61 surface cleaner and sanitiser,” adds Phil. “This is slightly unusual, in that the sanitiser is more commonly used for interior train cleaning whereas we use it on the underside of all our rolling stock. “Unfortunately, as in the case of road users, accidents involving wildlife sometimes take place. Using Germfree 61 – a cleaner containing a biocide – on the underside of rolling stock minimises the health risks to anyone working on the vehicles. “The detergent is non-caustic and won’t harm the infrastructure under rolling stock, but it will give peace of mind to the user.”

Location Due to the Canton depot’s size and location there had always been logistical problems with deliveries to the wash plant, which is at the far end of the facility and most distant from the entrance. Arrow Solutions was able to help by devising a new route that would allow the unloading of deliveries to take place nearer to the cleaning facility. “At the Canton depot we used to have to unload thousands of litres of cleaning products a long distance away from the wash plant, then drive them there on a forklift truck,” explains Phil. “This was a logistical nightmare, as you can imagine. “This became such a constant headache that we eventually felt we had to sit down and work out another delivery method. Together with Arrow Solutions we were able to plot a more suitable route.”

Conclusion “We’ve been using Arrow Solutions’ cleaning materials for ten years now because they constantly provide quality products in large quantities that suit us,” comments Phil. “The relationship that we’ve built over the years has been typified by Arrow Solution’s reaction to our logistical problem and consequently, their rectifying of it.” Train operating companies have very demanding and specific cleaning, maintenance and logistical needs; compromise is rarely an option. With growing environmental concerns and increasing customer expectations the best way to fulfil these requirements is by working closely with professional cleaning specialists to identify the ideal cleaning chemicals and procedures.

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Cable Products / Management .................................... Car Parking ........................................................................... p66 Catenary & Overhead ............................................................ Catering.............................................................................................. Cleaning ............................................................................................. Components .................................................................................. Control Systems......................................................................... Corrosion Protection .............................................................. Design .................................................................................................. Door Systems ............................................................................... Electrical Engineering ............................................................ Electrification / Power Supply ....................................... Electromagnetic .......................................................................... Freight Terminals & Services .......................................... Graffiti Removal ................................................................ p67 Heat Treatment Services.................................................... Infrastructure Installation & Maintenance .................................................................................. Level Crossings .......................................................................... Lighting ............................................................................................... Metallurigical Testing / Support Services ........... Miscellaneous & Specialist ............................................... Office Equipment & Services.......................................... Permanent Way .......................................................................... Pest Control ................................................................................... Platforms ........................................................................................... Power Electronics Equipment ....................................... Power Supply ............................................................................... Switches & Crossings ................................................. p68 Switchgear....................................................................................... Test Facilities ................................................................................ Track Components & Installation ............................... Track Products & Maintenance .................................... Weighing & Lifting..................................................................... Workshop Equipment............................................................ ROLLING STOCK Batteries................................................................................... p68 Carriage Washing...................................................................... Chartering......................................................................................... Cleaning & Disposal................................................................ Component Supply.................................................................. Decals & Transfers ................................................................... De-Icing .............................................................................................. Disc Springs ................................................................................... Equipment & Protection ...................................................... Floor Coverings................................................................. p69 Heavy Haulage............................................................................. Leasing Companies ................................................................ Lighting & Cabling .................................................................... Maintenance & Repair........................................................... Manufacturing .............................................................................. Miscellaneous & Specialist ...............................................

Recycling .......................................................................................... Refurbishment .............................................................................. Road Rail Lorries, Trucks, or Vehicles................... Sanding .............................................................................................. Textiles & Carpeting ............................................................... Train Protection .......................................................................... Train / Carriage, Supply / Design / Manufacture ............................................................ Upholstery........................................................................................ Vehicle Hire / Maintenance .............................................. Weighing Systems.......................................................... p70 SAFETY & SECURITY General Safety & Security ....................................... p70 Alarms .................................................................................................. Batteries & Power Supplies ............................................. CCTV .................................................................................................... Clothing .............................................................................................. Fencing ............................................................................................... Fire Detection / Protection / Prevention............... First Aid & Medical Equipment ..................................... Health & Safety ........................................................................... Lighting ............................................................................................... Medical Services........................................................................ Miscellaneous & Specialist ............................................... Personal Protective Equipment.................................... Quality & Safety Consultants................................ p71 Safety & Security Equipment.......................................... Security Personnel ................................................................... SIGNAL, TELE-COMMUNICATION & IT General Signal, Tele-Communication & IT ............................................................................................... p71 Cable Supply / Jointing / Installation ...................... Customer Information ........................................................... Data Management .................................................................... Datacoms ......................................................................................... In-Train Entertainment .......................................................... Internet Services ........................................................................ IT Consultancy / Equipment / Maintenance ..... IT Systems / Software / Hardware ............................ Journey Planning ....................................................................... Mass Transit Ticketing ......................................................... Miscellaneous & Specialist ............................................... Radio Communications ....................................................... Signal Post Telephone Supply / Installation..... Signalling Installation / Equipment / Testing ..................................................... p72 Switching Systems & Equipment ............................... Telecoms Cabling / Engineering ................................. Ticketing / Validation Systems...................................... Transmission ................................................................................. Wireless Technology .............................................................. TUNNELLING & BRIDGES Bridge Beams ..................................................................... p72 Bridge Construction & Repair ........................................ Concrete / Foam Injection ................................................ Grouting ............................................................................................. Manual Tunnelling..................................................................... Mechanical Tunnelling .......................................................... Miscellaneous & Specialist ............................................... Open-face Tunnelling ............................................................ Pipejacking / Segmented Tunnelling....................... Shaft Sinking ................................................................................. Sheet Piling .....................................................................................

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CATEGORY LISTINGS

3D Laser Mapping........................................................................................ 0870 442 9400 Fuchs Lubricant (UK) Plc .......................................................................... 01782 203700 Polypipe Civils Ltd .......................................................................................... 01509 615100 SRS Rail System International Ltd .................................................... 01246 241312

Architects & Surveyancy PPIY Chartered Architects Ltd............................................................. 01904 623034 T P Bennett ........................................................................................................ 0207 208 2000

Brickwork/Concrete Aggregate Industries UK Ltd ................................................................. 01530 510066 Ainscough Crane Hire Ltd ..................................................................... 01257 478 524 Ancon Building Products Ltd ................................................................ 0114 2755224 Anderton Concrete Products Limited ............................................... 01606 79436 Hy-Ten Ltd.......................................................................................................... 0800 037 1507 IDAC Ltd ............................................................................................................... 0844 212 5900 Oxford Hydrotechnics Ltd ....................................................................... 01869 346001

Bridges & Tunnels Ainscough Crane Hire Ltd ..................................................................... 01257 478 524 Ancon Building Products Ltd ................................................................ 0114 2755224 Barhale ..................................................................................................................... 01922 726731 Construction Marine Ltd ......................................................................... 0113 262 4444 Cubis Industries................................................................................................ 02838 313100 F.P. McCann Ltd ........................................................................................... 0287 964 2558 Oxford Hydrotechnics Ltd ....................................................................... 01869 346001 Tayban Concrete Products Ltd......................................................... 01204 691 313

Buildings Refurbishment & Property Services Ancon Building Products Ltd ................................................................ 0114 2755224 Anixter Ltd............................................................................................................. 01925 848019 Concrete Repairs Ltd ................................................................................ 0208 288 4848 Gable (UK) Ltd ................................................................................................... 02392 466416 Lindapter International ................................................................................ 01274 521444 Robinson Kenning & Gallagher.......................................................... 0208 684 8125 Steelway ................................................................................................................. 01902 834911 TAM International UK Limited ............................................................. 0333 240 9966 WYG......................................................................................................................... 0113 278 7111

Cable Assembly Solutions Ltd ............................................................................. 01204 521999 BATT CABLES Plc ......................................................................................... 01322 441165 BEW Ltd ................................................................................................................. 01245 496064 Celtic Recycling Ltd ...................................................................................... 01633 274700 Edmundson Electrical Ltd – Twickenham ................................ 0208 891 1331 Elmbridge Cables Ltd .................................................................................. 01273 391810 FB Taylor (Cable Contractors) Ltd .................................................... 01765 600261 The Clancy Group ........................................................................................ 01895 823 711 UK Cables ............................................................................................................. 01708 680786

Chemicals & Lubricants

Amalgamated Construction Co Ltd............................................... 01226 243 413 Ancon Building Products Ltd ................................................................ 0114 2755224 APB Group Ltd ................................................................................................. 01538 755377 Aqua Geocomposites..................................................................................... 01695 51933 BAM Nuttall Ltd .............................................................................................. 0203 205 1950 Bardon Contracting....................................................................................... 01530 510066 Barhale ..................................................................................................................... 01922 726731 Bridgeway Consulting Ltd...................................................................... 0115 919 1111 C Spencer Ltd ................................................................................................... 01469 532266 Cairn Cross Civil Engineering Ltd .................................................... 0113 284 2415 Construction Marine Ltd ......................................................................... 0113 262 4444 Danny Sullivan & Sons Ltd .................................................................... 0208 961 1900 Garic Ltd................................................................................................................. 01206 233720 Hy-Ram Engineering Ltd .......................................................................... 01623 422982 Hy-Ten Ltd.......................................................................................................... 0800 037 1507 J Murphy & Sons Ltd................................................................................. 0207 267 4366 Kier Construction Ltd................................................................................... 01767 355000 Mass Contracts Ltd .................................................................................... 07956 246 843 Oxford Hydrotechnics Ltd ....................................................................... 01869 346001 Sangwin .................................................................................................................. 01482 329921 Story Contracting Ltd .................................................................................. 01228 590444 The Clancy Group ........................................................................................ 01895 823 711 Thorntask Ltd ................................................................................................... 0208 801 1203 Walker Construction ................................................................................... 01303 851 111 WYG......................................................................................................................... 0113 278 7111 YJL Infrastructure.......................................................................................... 0207 522 3220

Clothing & Boots All Clothing & Protection Ltd ................................................................. 02380 428003 Arco Ltd .................................................................................................................. 01482 222522 Badgemaster Ltd .......................................................................................... 01623 723 112 Ballyclare Limited .................................................................................... 07801 597 802 Buck & Hickman .............................................................................................. 01293 561651 Lee Brothers...................................................................................................... 0870 850 7773 Radius Systems Ltd...................................................................................... 01773 582312 Safe Aid Supplies .......................................................................................... 0239 225 4442 United Hygiene Services ......................................................................... 0845 450 2024

Demolition & Recycling Ainscough Crane Hire Ltd ..................................................................... 01257 478 524 C A J Services Ltd ......................................................................................... 01933 355001 Celtic Recycling Ltd ...................................................................................... 01633 274700 Drilling and Sawing Association ........................................................ 0844 879 3452 IDAC Ltd ............................................................................................................... 0844 212 5900

Drainage & Culverts ACO Technologies Plc.................................................................. 01462 816666 (263) Chemsearch ........................................................................................................ 01902 510202 Complete Drain Clearance ...................................................................... 01785 665909 Construction Marine Ltd ......................................................................... 0113 262 4444 Cubis Industries................................................................................................ 02838 313100 F.P. McCann Ltd ........................................................................................... 0287 964 2558 Lanes Group PLC Rail Division ........................................................... 01708 528770

Autodrain.............................................................................................................. 0113 288 0022

MGS Demco ....................................................................................................... 02476 602323

Buck & Hickman .............................................................................................. 01293 561651

Polypipe Civils Ltd .......................................................................................... 01509 615100

Chemsearch ........................................................................................................ 01902 510202

Radius Systems Ltd...................................................................................... 01773 582312

Fuchs Lubricant (UK) Plc .......................................................................... 01782 203700

The Clancy Group ........................................................................................ 01895 823 711

LB Foster Rail Technologies (UK) Limited ................................ 0114 256 2225

Waterflow ............................................................................................................... 01753 810999

Lee Brothers...................................................................................................... 0870 850 7773 R S Clare & Co Ltd...................................................................................... 0151 702 5262 TAM International UK Limited ............................................................. 0333 240 9966

Civil Engineering; Earthworks/General/Contractors

Drilling Barcol........................................................................................................................ 01268 764642 Celtic Recycling Ltd ...................................................................................... 01633 274700 Drilling and Sawing Association ........................................................ 0844 879 3452

Aggregate Industries UK Ltd ................................................................. 01530 510066

Perco Engineering Services Ltd........................................................ 0115 933 5000

Ainscough Crane Hire Ltd ..................................................................... 01257 478 524

ScrewFast Foundations ............................................................................. 01727 821282

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CIVILS, PLANT & EQUIPMENT DRILLING

CIVILS, PLANT & EQUIPMENT

CATEGORY LISTINGS Equipment Maintenance/Repair/Calibration

Multi-Metal Steel Suppliers

Budenberg Gauge Co. Ltd ................................................................... 0161 777 7300 Conair (UK) Ltd ................................................................................................. 01702 544344 Edmiston Brown & Co ltd ...................................................................... 0141 554 2891

MECHAN LTD Sir John Brown Building, Davy Industrial Park, Prince of Wales Road, Sheffield, Yorkshire, S9 4EX

CIVILS, PLANT & EQUIPMENT EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE/REPAIR/CALIBRATION

Contact: E: T: W:

Lee Pitts info@mechan.co.uk 0114 257 0563 www.mechan.co.uk

ASD METAL SERVICES Valley Farm Road, Stourton, Leeds, LS10 1SD Contact: E: T: F: W:

Barrie Salter enquiries@asdmetalservices.co.uk 01132 540711 01132 721689 www.asdmetalservices.co.uk

Plant

Torrent Trackside Limited ........................................................................ 01543 421900 WORLifts – Rail ............................................................................................... 0121 460 1113

Land Clearance/Reclamation/Landscaping C A J Services Ltd ......................................................................................... 01933 355001 Thomson Ecology........................................................................................... 01462 675559 WYG......................................................................................................................... 0113 278 7111

Lifting & Jacking Camlok Lifting Clamps ............................................................................... 01244 375375 Commend UK Ltd .......................................................................................... 01279 872020 Mechan Ltd ..................................................................................................... 0114 257 0563 SRS Rail System International Limited .......................................... 01246 241312 STRAIL (UK) Ltd ......................................................................................... 01483 222 090

Cembre.................................................................................................................... 01675 470440 Fuchs Lubricant (UK) Plc .......................................................................... 01782 203700 G F Gordon (Plant Hire) Ltd ................................................................... 01245 471917 Garic Ltd................................................................................................................. 01206 233720 Harmill Systems Ltd ...................................................................................... 01525 851133 L&W Contractors............................................................................................. 01403 784286 Maxim Power Tools Ltd .......................................................................... 0141 552 5591 Morris Site Machinery................................................................................ 0845 409 0280 Quattro Group ................................................................................................. 0845 900 2999 SRS Rail System International Limited .......................................... 01246 241312 Story Contracting Ltd .................................................................................. 01228 590444 STRAIL (UK) Ltd ......................................................................................... 01483 222 090 Thetford International ................................................................................... 01842 890500 TRAC ......................................................................................................................... 01698 831111

UNIC Cranes ..................................................................................................... 01844 202 071

Projected Developments

WORLifts – Rail ............................................................................................... 0121 460 1113

Thetford International ................................................................................... 01842 890500

Marine & River

Resurfacing

Construction Marine Ltd ......................................................................... 0113 262 4444

Welding Alloys Ltd.......................................................................................... 01763 207568

Deepdale Engineering Company Ltd.............................................. 01384 480022 PPG Protective & Marine Coatings .................................................. 01773 814520 Radius Systems Ltd...................................................................................... 01773 582312 Thomson Ecology........................................................................................... 01462 675559

Mechanical Engineering Brixwoth Engineering Co Ltd ................................................................ 01604 880338 Conair (UK) Ltd ................................................................................................. 01702 544344 Deepdale Engineering Company Ltd.............................................. 01384 480022 Hayley Group Plc .......................................................................................... 0870 850 3526

Minor Civil Aggregate Industries UK Ltd ................................................................. 01530 510066 Bardon Contracting....................................................................................... 01530 510066 Construction Marine Ltd ......................................................................... 0113 262 4444 Oxford Hydrotechnics Ltd ....................................................................... 01869 346001 The Clancy Group ........................................................................................ 01895 823 711 Thorntask Ltd ................................................................................................... 0208 801 1203

Miscellaneous & Specialist AST Language Services Ltd ................................................................ 0115 970 5633 Augean plc ........................................................................................................... 01780 444900 Badgemaster Ltd .......................................................................................... 01623 723 112 Cubis Industries................................................................................................ 02838 313100

Structural & Construction Ainscough Crane Hire Ltd ..................................................................... 01257 478 524 Ancon Building Products Ltd ................................................................ 0114 2755224 ASD Metal Services ................................................................................. 01132 540711 Barhale ..................................................................................................................... 01922 726731 BCM Construction Ltd.............................................................................. 0208 640 7887 Hy-Ten Ltd.......................................................................................................... 0800 037 1507 KONE Plc............................................................................................................... 01535 662841 Lindapter International ................................................................................ 01274 521444 Oxford Hydrotechnics Ltd ....................................................................... 01869 346001 ScrewFast Foundations ............................................................................. 01727 821282

Surveying 3D Laser Mapping........................................................................................ 0870 442 9400 Adien Ltd................................................................................................................ 01302 802200 Blom........................................................................................................................... 01934 745820 Mike Worby Survey Consultancy ....................................................... 01707 333677 Speedy Rail .......................................................................................................... 01942 277000 TES 2000 Ltd ..................................................................................................... 01206 799111 Thomson Ecology........................................................................................... 01462 675559

Test & Measurement Bureau Veritas UK Ltd .............................................................................. 01279 634 054

Exel Composites.............................................................................................. 01928 701515 Kobelco Cranes Europe Ltd .................................................................. 01342 301122

CUTHBERTSON LAIRD GROUP

KONE Plc............................................................................................................... 01535 662841

Parkburn Court, Glasgow Road, Hamilton, ML3 0QQ

Lindapter International ................................................................................ 01274 521444 Mechan Ltd ..................................................................................................... 0114 257 0563 Speedy Rail .......................................................................................................... 01942 277000 Steelway ................................................................................................................. 01902 834911

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Peter Greenshields hamilton@cuthbertsonlaird.co.uk 01698 829711 www.cuthbertsonlaird.co.uk

Thetford International ................................................................................... 01842 890500 If your entry is incorrect please complete and return the amendment form on page 79–80

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CATEGORY LISTINGS Test Equipment

Branding & Creative Services

Cuthbertson Laird Group ................................................................... 01698 829711

Brandpool Ltd .................................................................................................. 0207 467 9717

Radius Systems Ltd...................................................................................... 01773 582312 Wolseley UK ........................................................................................................ 01926 705000

Tools Ballast Tools (UK) Ltd .................................................................................. 01793 697800 Buck & Hickman .............................................................................................. 01293 561651 Cembre.................................................................................................................... 01675 470440 Cromwell Tools Ltd ..................................................................................... 0116 288 8000 Gedore ..................................................................................................................... 01756 798625 Lee Brothers...................................................................................................... 0870 850 7773 Maxim Power Tools Ltd .......................................................................... 0141 552 5591 Speedy Rail .......................................................................................................... 01942 277000 VI Distribution Ltd ........................................................................................... 01270 750520 WORLifts – Rail ............................................................................................... 0121 460 1113

Business Management BMT Reliability Consultants .................................................................... 01489 553100 Byroc Railway Support............................................................................. 0118 907 1341 Futurelink.............................................................................................................. 0845 620 9255 NuAspect Ltd ................................................................................................... 0207 101 0800 Radius Systems Ltd...................................................................................... 01773 582312

Condition Monitoring BMT Reliability Consultants .................................................................... 01489 553100 Hima-Sella Ltd ................................................................................................. 0161 429 4508 Radius Systems Ltd...................................................................................... 01773 582312 Rowe Hankins Ltd........................................................................................ 0161 765 3000

Consultants

Utility Supplies

Welding Miscellaneous & Specialist Deepdale Engineering Company Ltd.............................................. 01384 480022 Morris Site Machinery................................................................................ 0845 409 0280 Welding Alloys Ltd.......................................................................................... 01763 207568

SWEETT GROUP 60 Gray’s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8AQ Contact: E: T: F: W:

Eryl Evans – Director of Transport eryl.evans@sweettgroup.com 0207 061 9016 / 07765 021957 0207 430 0603 www.sweettgroup.com

CONSULTING, RECRUITMENT & PROFESSIONAL Astec Group Ltd .......................................................................................... 01625 590008

Education, Training & Assessment

Futurelink.............................................................................................................. 0845 620 9255

Amtrain (Midlands) Ltd.............................................................................. 01283 792 633 Anzio Ltd ................................................................................................................ 01752 840251 Drilling and Sawing Association ........................................................ 0844 879 3452 Intertrain .................................................................................................................. 01302 815530 Keltbray Aspire Rail Ltd ........................................................................... 0207 643 1000 LRQA – Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance Ltd ................ 0800 783 2179

Intelenet UK Ltd ............................................................................................. 0207 872 5541

Speedy Hire Ltd ............................................................................................... 01942 720000

Flowfront Ltd ....................................................................................................... 01978 355770 Passengerfocus .............................................................................................. 0300 123 2140 SGS CORREL Rail Ltd ............................................................................. 0121 326 3672

Accounting & Financial

Stokes Associates Ltd ................................................................................ 07846 561370

Accreditation & Compliance

TES 2000 Ltd ..................................................................................................... 01206 799111

Direct Enquiries Ltd ....................................................................................... 01344 360101

The Institution of Engineering and Technology ...................... 01438 767224

LRQA – Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance Ltd ................ 0800 783 2179

Trackline Training Limited ...................................................................... 0161 872 2400

SGS CORREL Rail Ltd ............................................................................. 0121 326 3672

Trackwork Ltd.................................................................................................... 01302 888666

Advertising, Design & Marketing Allen Design Group ..................................................................................... 0114 251 8809 AST Language Services Ltd ................................................................ 0115 970 5633

West Coast Training ................................................................................... 0208 834 9151 York EMC Services ....................................................................................... 01904 324440

Employment Services

Badgemaster Ltd .......................................................................................... 01623 723 112

Calibre Search ................................................................................................. 0113 274 3039

Best Impressions........................................................................................... 0208 740 6443

Personal Group of Companies ............................................................ 01908 605000

Brandpool Ltd .................................................................................................. 0207 467 9717 Exterion Media (UK) Limited................................................................. 0207 428 2885 Market Force Business Media............................................................ 0207 760 8699 Optimedia ............................................................................................................ 0207 961 1000 Primary Image Limited ................................................................................ 01702 680690 Radius Systems Ltd...................................................................................... 01773 582312 Traction & Rolling Stock Advertiser ................................................. 01379 651683

Engineering Assembly Solutions Ltd ............................................................................. 01204 521999 Bakerail Services Ltd ................................................................................... 01480 471349 BMT Reliability Consultants .................................................................... 01489 553100 Brixwoth Engineering Co Ltd ................................................................ 01604 880338 Budenberg Gauge Co Ltd ..................................................................... 0161 777 7300 Collis Engineering Ltd.................................................................................. 01773 833255

Architectural & Surveyancy

D.R.B Power Transmission Ltd ........................................................... 01244 280280

Frankham Consultancy ............................................................................ 0208 309 7777

Derby Engineering Unit Ltd..................................................................... 01332 660364

GVA Grimley Ltd ............................................................................................ 0844 902 0304

Fowler & Holden Ltd..................................................................................... 01472 355316

Jones Lang LaSalle Ltd ........................................................................... 0207 399 5864

Frankham Consultancy ............................................................................ 0208 309 7777

Robinson Kenning & Gallagher.......................................................... 0208 684 8125

Houghton International ............................................................................. 0191 234 3000

The Trevor Patrick Partnership .......................................................... 0207 940 6500

IDAC Ltd ............................................................................................................... 0844 212 5900 Interfleet Technology Ltd .......................................................................... 01332 223000

Assessment

Lundy Projects Ltd....................................................................................... 0161 476 2996

Achilles Information Ltd.............................................................................. 01235 861118

NuAspect Ltd ................................................................................................... 0207 101 0800

SGS CORREL Rail Ltd ............................................................................. 0121 326 3672

St. Leonards Railway Engineering Ltd .......................................... 01233 617001

Steer Davies Gleave.................................................................................... 0207 910 5000

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CONSULTING, RECRUITMENT & PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING

The Clancy Group ........................................................................................ 01895 823 711

CATEGORY LISTINGS Strand 7 UK Ltd ............................................................................................... 01480 211011 TEW Engineering Ltd ................................................................................. 0115 935 4354 The Institution of Engineering and Technology ...................... 01438 767224 Wago Ltd ............................................................................................................... 01788 568008

Environmental C A J Services Ltd ......................................................................................... 01933 355001 Frankham Consultancy ............................................................................ 0208 309 7777 Safeguard Pest Control ............................................................................. 01959 565777 Scientifics Ltd ................................................................................................... 0845 603 2112 Stuart Slatter Training.................................................................................. 01565 750557 Thetford International ................................................................................... 01842 890500 Thomson Ecology........................................................................................... 01462 675559

Express Medicals Ltd ................................................................................ 0207 500 6900 Scientifics Ltd ................................................................................................... 0845 603 2112

Operation/Planning Arriva Trains Wales ...................................................................................... 029 2072 0516 Steer Davies Gleave.................................................................................... 0207 910 5000

Photography & Film Production

Scientifics Ltd ................................................................................................... 0845 603 2112 WYG......................................................................................................................... 0113 278 7111

Alvey & Towers ................................................................................................. 01949 861894 Primary Image Limited ................................................................................ 01702 680690 Rail Images ........................................................................................................... 01702 525059

The Institution of Railway Operators ............................................... 01444 248931

Planning & Research

Esmerk Ltd ......................................................................................................... 0118 956 5820

GVA Grimley Ltd ............................................................................................ 0844 902 0304 Jones Lang LaSalle Ltd ........................................................................... 0207 399 5864 Steer Davies Gleave.................................................................................... 0207 910 5000

Insurance

Print & Publishing

Belmont International Ltd ......................................................................... 01732 744700 Jobson James Insurance Brokers Limited .............................. 0121 452 8717 Personal Group of Companies ............................................................ 01908 605000 Travelers Insurance Company Ltd.................................................... 01737 787787

AST Language Services Ltd ................................................................ 0115 970 5633 Badgemaster Ltd .......................................................................................... 01623 723 112 Esmerk Ltd ......................................................................................................... 0118 956 5820 Konica Minolta ................................................................................................... 01268 644416 Local Transport Today ............................................................................... 0845 2707861 Magnadata International Ltd ................................................................ 01205 591 767 Novacroft ............................................................................................................. 0845 330 0601 OCÉ (UK) Ltd ...................................................................................................... 01277 846120 Precise Media .................................................................................................. 0207 264 4731 Primary Image Limited ................................................................................ 01702 680690 Stamps Direct .................................................................................................... 01603 624407 The Institution of Engineering and Technology ...................... 01438 767224 Witherby’s ........................................................................................................... 0207 253 5413

Industry Reporting

CONSULTING, RECRUITMENT & PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING

Occupational Health

Geotechnical

Industry Bodies

Precise Media .................................................................................................. 0207 264 4731 Prestige Couriers ........................................................................................... 0207 384 2300 Strand 7 UK Ltd ............................................................................................... 01480 211011 Techno Rail .......................................................................................................... 01938 555511 The Russell Group........................................................................................ 0141 810 8200

Labour Supply AzteQ Solutions Ltd ...................................................................................... 01442 244444 C A J Services Ltd ......................................................................................... 01933 355001 Flowfront Ltd ....................................................................................................... 01978 355770 Mainline Resourcing Ltd .......................................................................... 0845 083 0245 STM Security UK Ltd ................................................................................. 0208 518 9682 Suretrack Rail Services Limited......................................................... 0208 519 9142 SW Global Resourcing ........................................................................ 0844 692 0692 TRAC ......................................................................................................................... 01698 831111 Wetton Cleaning Services Ltd ............................................................ 0207 237 2007

Legal Services

Byroc Railway Support............................................................................. 0118 907 1341 FPA Consulting ............................................................................................... 01332 604 300 GVA Grimley Ltd ............................................................................................ 0844 902 0304 Hambleton Risk Management Ltd .................................................... 01904 728995 Sweett Group......................................................0207 061 9016 / 07765 021957

BOND DICKINSON LLP 4 More London Riverside, London, SE1 2AU Contact: E: T: F: W:

Procurement

David Rewcastle david.rewcastle@bonddickinson.com 0345 415 0000 0345 415 6200 www.bonddickinson.com

Project Management

Concateno South .......................................................................................... 0207 712 8000 Radius Systems Ltd...................................................................................... 01773 582312 ScreenSafe UK Ltd........................................................................................ 08450 505590

AzteQ Solutions Ltd ...................................................................................... 01442 244444 BMT Reliability Consultants .................................................................... 01489 553100 Bureau Veritas UK Ltd .............................................................................. 01279 634 054 CPC Project Services ................................................................................ 0207 539 4750 FPA Consulting ............................................................................................... 01332 604 300 Frankham Consultancy ............................................................................ 0208 309 7777 Hambleton Risk Management Ltd .................................................... 01904 728995 Jones Lang LaSalle Ltd ........................................................................... 0207 399 5864 Steer Davies Gleave.................................................................................... 0207 910 5000 Sweett Group......................................................0207 061 9016 / 07765 021957 TNE Ltd ................................................................................................................... 01388 451111 Turner & Townsend..................................................................................... 0207 544 4000

Miscellaneous & Specialist

Property Services & Advisory

Associated Train Crew Union ............................................................... 01226 716417 Bemrose Booth ................................................................................................ 01482 826343 Campaign for Better Transport ......................................................... 0207 566 6480 Inntel ........................................................................................................................ 0844 847 5533 Personal Group of Companies ............................................................ 01908 605000

BCM Construction Ltd.............................................................................. 0208 Frankham Consultancy ............................................................................ 0208 GVA Grimley Ltd ............................................................................................ 0844 Jones Lang LaSalle Ltd ........................................................................... 0207 Robinson Kenning & Gallagher.......................................................... 0208

Radius Systems Ltd...................................................................................... 01773 582312 Watmores Solicitors .................................................................................... 0207 430 1512 Zyda Law Solicitors ....................................................................................... 01789 413949

Medical, Drug & Alcohol Screening

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INFRASTRUCTURE & ELECTRICAL

Frankham Consultancy ............................................................................ 0208 309 7777 Sweett Group......................................................0207 061 9016 / 07765 021957 Turner & Townsend..................................................................................... 0207 544 4000

Recruitment Services/Consultancy Antal International Network................................................................... 0870 428 1745 ARM Engineering............................................................................................. 02392 458005 Astec Group Ltd .......................................................................................... 01625 590008 Burns Carlton plc .......................................................................................... 0113 367 2850 Calibre Search ................................................................................................. 0113 274 3039 CDI Anders Elite Ltd ................................................................................... 0207 680 3100 Clements Technical Recruitment Ltd ........................................... 0845 223 5303 Evolution Recruitment ............................................................................... 0208 673 2211 Flowfront Ltd ....................................................................................................... 01978 355770 Hambleton Risk Management Ltd .................................................... 01904 728995 Intec (UK) Ltd ..................................................................................................... 01524 865555 LRQA – Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance Ltd ................ 0800 783 2179 McGinley Support Services Limited .............................................. 0845 543 5953 Morgan Hunt ..................................................................................................... 0207 419 8968

SW GLOBAL RESOURCING 270 Petershill Road, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G21 4AY E: T: F: W:

admin@sw-gr.com 0844 692 0692 0844 692 0693 www.sw-gr.com

Technology Resourcing ............................................................................. 01483 302211 TNE Ltd ................................................................................................................... 01388 451111

Risk Management & Assessment Abbott Risk Consulting Ltd .................................................................... 0133 2886045 Achilles Information Ltd.............................................................................. 01235 861118 Astec Group Ltd .......................................................................................... 01625 590008 BMT Reliability Consultants .................................................................... 01489 553100 Construction Team Technologies Ltd.......................................... 0113 248 5650 Inntel ........................................................................................................................ 0844 847 5533 Scientifics Ltd ................................................................................................... 0845 603 2112

Amelec Instruments ...................................................................................... 01908 567003 Bureau Veritas UK Ltd .............................................................................. 01279 634 054 Omega Red Group Limited .................................................................. 0115 877 6666 PMA UK Ltd...................................................................................................... 01264 333527 Polypipe Civils Ltd .......................................................................................... 01509 615100

Brake Systems Faiveley Transport Ltd............................................................................... 0151 649 5000 Semperit ................................................................................................................. 01327 313140

Buildings & Property Construction/ Refurbishment/Materials Aggregate Industries UK Ltd ................................................................. 01530 510066 Alfred Bagnall & Son .................................................................................... 01274 714800 Axis Automatic Entrance Systems Ltd........................................ 0844 504 6545 BAM Nuttall Ltd .............................................................................................. 0203 205 1950 Bardon Contracting....................................................................................... 01530 510066 Berry Systems ................................................................................................... 01902 491100 Conair (UK) Ltd ................................................................................................. 01702 544344 Concrete Repairs Ltd ................................................................................ 0208 288 4848 Dura Composites Ltd .................................................................................. 01255 423601 J Murphy & Sons Ltd................................................................................. 0207 267 4366 John Sisk Rail Ltd t/a Sisk Rail ......................................................... 0117 916 3800 Keyline Nationals .............................................................................................. 0800 833 375 Kier Construction Ltd................................................................................... 01767 355000 KONE Plc............................................................................................................... 01535 662841 Lend Lease......................................................................................................... 0208 271 8000 Lindapter International ................................................................................ 01274 521444 Mass Contracts Ltd .................................................................................... 07956 246 843 Morgan Sindall Plc ......................................................................................... 01788 534500 Omega Red Group Limited .................................................................. 0115 877 6666 Steelway ................................................................................................................. 01902 834911 Taylor Maxwell ................................................................................................... 07774 900170 Thorntask Ltd ................................................................................................... 0208 801 1203 Timbmet Ltd ........................................................................................................ 01865 862223 TopDeck Parking............................................................................................. 01902 499400 Universal Sealants (UK) Ltd .................................................................. 0191 416 1530 Walker Construction ................................................................................... 01303 851 111 WYG......................................................................................................................... 0113 278 7111 YJL Infrastructure.......................................................................................... 0207 522 3220

Turner & Townsend..................................................................................... 0207 544 4000

Cable Products/Management

Solutions & Turnkey Providers

Anixter Ltd............................................................................................................. 01925 848019 BEW Ltd ................................................................................................................. 01245 496064 Cembre.................................................................................................................... 01675 470440 Cubis Industries................................................................................................ 02838 313100 Elmbridge Cables Ltd .................................................................................. 01273 391810 Express Electrical & Engineering Supplies Ltd ..................... 0141 941 3689 F.P. McCann Ltd ........................................................................................... 0287 964 2558 Flexicon Ltd ......................................................................................................... 01675 466900 Habia Cable ......................................................................................................... 01454 412522 Harting Ltd ............................................................................................................ 01604 827500 LML Products Ltd .......................................................................................... 01249 814271 Mainframe Communications Ltd ........................................................ 01702 443800

Bemrose Booth ................................................................................................ 01482 826343 Rex Bousfield Ltd............................................................................................ 01883 717033 Steatite Ltd ........................................................................................................... 01527 512400

Test & Development Calmet Laboratory Services ................................................................. 0208 977 8455 Cuthbertson Laird Group ................................................................... 01698 829711 Faiveley Transport Ltd............................................................................... 0151 649 5000 LRQA – Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance Ltd ................ 0800 783 2179 Tüv Süd ................................................................................................................... 01489 558100 York EMC Services ....................................................................................... 01904 324440 Zircon Software ................................................................................................ 01225 764444

Verification & Validation Bureau Veritas UK Ltd .............................................................................. 01279 634 054 Hambleton Risk Management Ltd .................................................... 01904 728995 SGS CORREL Rail Ltd ............................................................................. 0121 326 3672 Strand 7 UK Ltd ............................................................................................... 01480 211011 Sweett Group......................................................0207 061 9016 / 07765 021957

PMA UK LTD Unit 4, Imperial Court, Magellan Close, Walworth Industrial Estate, Andover, Hampshire, SP10 5NT Contact: E: T: F: W:

Donna Clash donna.clash@tnb.com 01264 333527 01264 333643 www.pma-uk.com

Zircon Software ................................................................................................ 01225 764444 WWW.THECONNECTSERIES.CO.UK

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GVA Grimley Ltd ............................................................................................ 0844 902 0304

CATEGORY LISTINGS Polypipe Civils Ltd .......................................................................................... 01509 615100

Corrosion Protection

UK Cables ............................................................................................................. 01708 680786

3M CPPD............................................................................................................... 01609 780170

Wolseley UK ........................................................................................................ 01926 705000

Arrow Cleaning & Hygiene Solutions (Arrow Solutions)... 01283 221044

Axis Automatic Entrance Systems Ltd........................................ 0844 504 6545

Design

Bardon Contracting....................................................................................... 01530 510066 Bemrose Booth ................................................................................................ 01482 826343 Berry Systems ................................................................................................... 01902 491100 Magnadata International Ltd ................................................................ 01205 591 767 TopDeck Parking............................................................................................. 01902 499442 TopDeck Parking............................................................................................. 01902 499400

C A J Services Ltd ......................................................................................... 01933 355001 SRS Rail System International Limited .......................................... 01246 241312 STRAIL (UK) Ltd ......................................................................................... 01483 222 090 TES 2000 Ltd ..................................................................................................... 01206 799111 TNE Ltd ................................................................................................................... 01388 451111 Unipart Rail (Infra) ............................................................................................ 01270 847600

Eurocom Ltd ..................................................................................................... 0207 820 8344 Glentworth Rail Ltd ........................................................................................ 01628 639823 Harting Ltd ............................................................................................................ 01604 827500 Jacobs ..................................................................................................................... 0141 2438000 Termate ................................................................................................................. 0115 978 4652 Urban Initiatives .............................................................................................. 0207 843 3165

Door Systems Axis Automatic Entrance Systems Ltd........................................ 0844 504 6545 Jewers Doors Ltd ........................................................................................... 01767 317090 KONE Plc............................................................................................................... 01535 662841 Leyland and Birmingham Rubber Ltd .......................................... 0161 655 0300

Catering

INFRASTRUCTURE & ELECTRICAL CABLE PRODUCTS/MANAGEMENT

Application Solutions (Safety and Security) Ltd ................... 01273 405 435 Best Impressions........................................................................................... 020 8740 6443

Merson Signs Ltd............................................................................................ 01355 243021

Catenary & Overhead

3M Rail Solutions ............................................................................................ 01344 858704

Car Parking

Momentum Services Ltd......................................................................... 0207 843 5619

Rex Bousfield Ltd............................................................................................ 01883 717033 Techno Rail .......................................................................................................... 01938 555511

Cleaning

Westcode (UK) Ltd ........................................................................................ 01249 822283

3M CPPD............................................................................................................... 01609 780170

Electrical Engineering

Arrow Cleaning & Hygiene Solutions (Arrow Solutions).... 01283 221044 Autoglym PSV .................................................................................................... 01462 687416 Sasse Ltd............................................................................................................... 01332 362425 SCS Group ......................................................................................................... 0141 429 6769 STM Security UK Ltd ................................................................................. 0208 518 9682 Thetford International ................................................................................... 01842 890500 United Eco Services ................................................................................... 0845 450 2024 Voucher Systems Ltd ................................................................................ 0845 601 6020 Wetton Cleaning Services Ltd ............................................................ 0207 237 2007

Amalgamated Construction Co Ltd............................................... 01226 243 413 Antagrade Electrical Ltd ............................................................................ 01606 833299 Application Solutions (Safety and Security) Ltd ................... 01273 405 435 Arrowvale Electronics .................................................................................. 01527 514151 Assembly Solutions Ltd ............................................................................. 01204 521999 Beejay Rail Ltd ................................................................................................ 0141 553 1133 Burns Carlton Plc .......................................................................................... 0113 367 2850 EDM Ltd................................................................................................................ 0161 203 3150

Harting Ltd ............................................................................................................ 01604 827500

Eurocom Ltd ..................................................................................................... 0207 820 8344 Harting Ltd ............................................................................................................ 01604 827500 Kraus Elektrotechnik..................................................................................... 01749 840889 LML Products Ltd .......................................................................................... 01249 814271 Omega Red Group Limited .................................................................. 0115 877 6666 PEI Genesis UK Ltd .................................................................................... 0844 871 6060 Thorntask Ltd ................................................................................................... 0208 801 1203 TNE Ltd ................................................................................................................... 01388 451111 Weidmuller Ltd .................................................................................................. 01732 877000

ITT Interconnect Solutions – Cannon & Veam........................ 01256 311200

Electrification/Power Supply

Components Aerco Ltd ............................................................................................................... 01403 260206 Amelec Instruments ...................................................................................... 01908 567003 Dynex Semiconductor................................................................................. 01522 502753 Express Electrical & Engineering Supplies Ltd ..................... 0141 941 3689 Faiveley Transport Ltd............................................................................... 0151 649 5000 Flexicon Ltd ......................................................................................................... 01675 466900

Kraus Elektrotechnik..................................................................................... 01749 840889 LB Foster Rail Technologies (UK) Limited ................................ 0114 256 2225 LML Products Ltd .......................................................................................... 01249 814271 PMA UK Ltd...................................................................................................... 01264 333527 Rowe Hankins Ltd........................................................................................ 0161 765 3000 Termate ................................................................................................................. 0115 978 4652 Unipart Rail (Infra) ............................................................................................ 01270 847600 VI Distribution Ltd ........................................................................................... 01270 750520 Weidmuller Ltd .................................................................................................. 01732 877000 Wolseley UK ........................................................................................................ 01926 705000

Control Systems Airquick (Newark) Ltd .................................................................................. 01636 640480

Babcock Rail....................................................................................................... 01698 203005 Brecknell Willis Co ............................................................................................. 01460 64941 Cembre.................................................................................................................... 01675 470440 Eltek Power (UK) Ltd .................................................................................... 01442 219355 Harting Ltd ............................................................................................................ 01604 827500 Hollywell Building Services .................................................................... 01727 810 555 J Murphy & Sons Ltd................................................................................. 0207 267 4366 Kraus Elektrotechnik..................................................................................... 01749 840889 LML Products Ltd .......................................................................................... 01249 814271 Omega Red Group Limited .................................................................. 0115 877 6666 Riker Ltd ................................................................................................................. 01249 814271 TNE Ltd ................................................................................................................... 01388 451111

Amelec Instruments ...................................................................................... 01908 567003

Electromagnetic

Application Solutions (Safety and Security) Ltd ................... 01273 405 435

York EMC Services ....................................................................................... 01904 324440

Baldwin Boxall Communications........................................................ 01892 664422 Captec Ltd............................................................................................................ 01489 866066

Freight Terminals & Services

Hima-Sella Ltd ................................................................................................. 0161 429 4508

ABP Hams Hall Rail Freight Terminal ............................................. 01675 461300 Glasgow Freight Park ................................................................................ 0141 810 8200 Rosehill Rail ................................................................................................... 07739 320 924

Weidmuller Ltd .................................................................................................. 01732 877000 Zircon Software ................................................................................................ 01225 764444

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CATEGORY LISTINGS Russell Railfreight Terminal – Barking .......................................... 0208 517 6490

Miscellaneous & Specialist

Telford International Railfreight Park.............................................. 01952 608 410

AST Language Services Ltd ................................................................ 0115 970 5633

Graffiti Removal

Crossrail ................................................................................................................... 0207 150 845

3M CPPD............................................................................................................... 01609 780170 Arrow Cleaning & Hygiene Solutions (Arrow Solutions).... 01283 221044 Autoglym PSV .................................................................................................... 01462 687416 Sasse Ltd............................................................................................................... 01332 362425 Wetton Cleaning Services Ltd ............................................................ 0207 237 2007

Express Electrical & Engineering Supplies Ltd ..................... 0141 941 3689 Faiveley Transport Ltd............................................................................... 0151 649 5000 Garic Ltd................................................................................................................. 01206 233720 Hy-Ram Engineering Ltd .......................................................................... 01623 422982 Inntel ........................................................................................................................ 0844 847 5533 Maxim Power Tools Ltd .......................................................................... 0141 552 5591 Mechan Ltd ..................................................................................................... 0114 257 0563

Keighley Laboratories Ltd ........................................................................ 01535 664211

Oil Analysis Services..................................................................................... 01474 854450 RT Training Solutions Ltd ......................................................................... 01473 242344

Infrastructure Installation & Maintenance

Sasse Ltd............................................................................................................... 01332 362425

3M CPPD............................................................................................................... 01609 780170

Steelway ................................................................................................................. 01902 834911

AB Hoses & Fittings Ltd ............................................................................ 01246 208831

STRAIL (UK) Ltd ......................................................................................... 01483 222 090

ABET Ltd.............................................................................................................. 0207 473 6910

Train Chartering Company Ltd, The................................................ 01249 890176

Airquick (Newark) Ltd .................................................................................. 01636 640480

Trox (UK) Ltd....................................................................................................... 01842 754545

Alstom Transport ........................................................................................... 0207 438 9231

Office Equipment & Services

Amalgamated Construction Co Ltd............................................... 01226 243 413 Amey OW Ltd .................................................................................................... 01865 713100 Burns Carlton Plc .......................................................................................... 0113 367 2850 Conair (UK) Ltd ................................................................................................. 01702 544344 Craig & Derricott Ltd .................................................................................... 01543 375541 Fone-Alarm Installations Ltd .................................................................. 01737 223673 Jewers Doors Ltd ........................................................................................... 01767 317090

EFG Office Furniture Ltd ......................................................................... 0845 608 4100 Garic Ltd................................................................................................................. 01206 233720 Inntel ........................................................................................................................ 0844 847 5533 Konica Minolta ................................................................................................... 01268 644416 Trox (UK) Ltd....................................................................................................... 01842 754545 United Hygiene Services ......................................................................... 0845 450 2024

KONE Plc............................................................................................................... 01535 662841

Permanent Way

Lindapter International ................................................................................ 01274 521444

Aggregate Industries UK Ltd ................................................................. 01530 510066

Omega Red Group Limited .................................................................. 0115 877 6666

Ballast Tools (UK) Ltd .................................................................................. 01793 697800

Polypipe Civils Ltd .......................................................................................... 01509 615100

Cembre.................................................................................................................... 01675 470440

Rittal Ltd ................................................................................................................. 01709 704000

Keltbray Aspire Rail Ltd ........................................................................... 0207 643 1000

Timbmet Ltd ........................................................................................................ 01865 862223

Maxim Power Tools Ltd .......................................................................... 0141 552 5591

Visul Systems ................................................................................................... 0191 416 1530

Polypipe Civils Ltd .......................................................................................... 01509 615100

Weidmuller Ltd .................................................................................................. 01732 877000

Rosehill Rail ................................................................................................... 07739 320 924 Story Contracting Ltd .................................................................................. 01228 590444

Level Crossings

Pest Control ROSEHILL RAIL Watson Mill Lane, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 3BW Contact: E: T: W:

Peter Anderson peter.anderson@rosehillrail.com 07739 320 924 www.rosehillrail.com

STRAIL (UK) LTD 3 Tannery House, Tannery Lane, Woking, Surrey, GU23 7EF Contact: E: T: W:

Richard Whatley richard@srsrailuk.co.uk 01483 222 090 www.strail.com

Unipart Rail (Infra) ............................................................................................ 01270 847600

Lighting Adaptaflex ............................................................................................................. 01675 468222 BEW Ltd ................................................................................................................. 01245 496064

Balcombe Pest Control............................................................................ 01444 811 916 Safeguard Pest Control ............................................................................. 01959 565777 SCS Group ......................................................................................................... 0141 429 6769

Platforms Amalgamated Construction Co Ltd............................................... 01226 243 413 Bardon Contracting....................................................................................... 01530 510066 Dura Composites Ltd .................................................................................. 01255 423601 F.P. McCann Ltd ........................................................................................... 0287 964 2558 Ferrograph Ltd ................................................................................................ 0191 280 8800 Ilecsys ....................................................................................................................... 01442 828387 J Murphy & Sons Ltd................................................................................. 0207 267 4366 Robinson Kenning & Gallagher.......................................................... 0208 684 8125 Semmco Ltd ..................................................................................................... 01483 757 200 Story Contracting Ltd .................................................................................. 01228 590444 Techno Rail .......................................................................................................... 01938 555511 Universal Sealants (UK) Ltd .................................................................. 0191 416 1530 Visul Systems ................................................................................................... 0191 416 1530 Walker Construction ................................................................................... 01303 851 111 Zoeftig Ltd ........................................................................................................... 01288 354 512

Emergi-Lite ......................................................................................................... 0113 281 0600

Power Electronics Equipment

Fone-Alarm Installations Ltd .................................................................. 01737 223673

Dynex Semiconductor................................................................................. 01522 502753

Mallatite ................................................................................................................. 01246 593 280 Morris Site Machinery................................................................................ 0845 409 0280

Metallurgical Testing/Support Services Keighley Laboratories Ltd ........................................................................ 01535 664211 WWW.THECONNECTSERIES.CO.UK

Power Supply Eltek Power (UK) Ltd .................................................................................... 01442 219355 Emerson Network Power ....................................................................... 0114 247 8369 Morris Site Machinery................................................................................ 0845 409 0280

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Heat Treatment Services

CATEGORY LISTINGS Peak Oil ................................................................................................................... 01246 450242 Townscape Products Limited ............................................................. 01623 513 355 TTI Inc ....................................................................................................................... 01438 794170 Weidmuller Ltd .................................................................................................. 01732 877000

Amelec Instruments ...................................................................................... 01908 567003 STRAIL (UK) Ltd ......................................................................................... 01483 222 090 Trackwork Ltd.................................................................................................... 01302 888666

Switchgear Celtic Recycling Ltd ...................................................................................... 01633 274700 Dynex Semiconductor................................................................................. 01522 502753 Express Electrical & Engineering Supplies Ltd ..................... 0141 941 3689 Hawker Siddeley Switchgear ................................................................ 01495 223001 Kraus Elektrotechnik..................................................................................... 01749 840889 Termate ................................................................................................................. 0115 978 4652

Cleaning & Disposal Autoglym PSV .................................................................................................... 01462 687416 Celtic Recycling Ltd ...................................................................................... 01633 274700 SCS Group ......................................................................................................... 0141 429 6769 Smith Bros & Webb Ltd ............................................................................ 01789 400096 Wetton Cleaning Services Ltd ............................................................ 0207 237 2007

Component Supply Aerco Ltd ............................................................................................................... 01403 260206 Bauer Springs Ltd .......................................................................................... 01527 594900

BRITAX PSV WYPERS LTD

Test Facilities Calmet Laboratory Services ................................................................. 0208 977 8455 Cuthbertson Laird Group ................................................................... 01698 829711 Faiveley Transport Ltd............................................................................... 0151 649 5000 Oil Analysis Services..................................................................................... 01474 854450 Tüv Süd ................................................................................................................... 01489 558100 York EMC Services ....................................................................................... 01904 324440

Track Components & Installation Babcock Rail....................................................................................................... 01698 203005 LB Foster Rail Technologies (UK) Limited ................................ 0114 256 2225 R S Clare & Co Ltd...................................................................................... 0151 702 5262 TES 2000 Ltd ..................................................................................................... 01206 799111

Track Products & Maintenance

INFRASTRUCTURE & ELECTRICAL POWER SUPPLY

Chartering Train Chartering Company Ltd, The................................................ 01249 890176

Switches & Crossings

Smith Bros & Webb Ltd ............................................................................ 01789 400096 STM Security UK Ltd ................................................................................. 0208 518 9682

LB Foster Rail Technologies (UK) Limited ................................ 0114 256 2225 Speedy Rail .......................................................................................................... 01942 277000 TES 2000 Ltd ..................................................................................................... 01206 799111 Unipart Rail (Infra) ............................................................................................ 01270 847600

Weighing & Lifting Arbil Ltd ................................................................................................................... 01384 424007 Lloyds Somers................................................................................................... 01792 656951 Mechan Ltd ..................................................................................................... 0114 257 0563 Schenck Process UK Limited ............................................................... 01302 321313

Workshop Equipment Autodrain.............................................................................................................. 0113 288 0022 Buck & Hickman .............................................................................................. 01293 561651 Mechan Ltd ..................................................................................................... 0114 257 0563 Premier Pits.......................................................................................................... 01775 821222 WORLifts – Rail ............................................................................................... 0121 460 1113

ROLLING STOCK CF Booth Ltd ...................................................................................................... 01709 559198 East Midlands Trains .................................................................................... 01332 867026 Semperit ................................................................................................................. 01327 313140

Batteries Enersys Ltd ........................................................................................................ 0161 794 4611 Exide Technologies ..................................................................................... 0845 606 4111

Carriage Washing Airquick (Newark) Ltd .................................................................................. 01636 640480 Arrow Cleaning & Hygiene Solutions (Arrow Solutions).... 01283 221044 Autoglym PSV .................................................................................................... 01462 687416 Bingham Rail/Bingham Cotech ......................................................... 0870 774 2341 Garrandale Ltd .................................................................................................. 01332 291100

Navigation Road, Diglis, Worcester, WR5 3DE Contact: E: T: F: W:

Paul Curry paul.curry@psvwypers.com 01905 350500 01905 763928 www.psv-wypers.com

Cable Management Products Ltd..................................................... 01675 468200 CF Booth Ltd ...................................................................................................... 01709 559198 EAO Ltd .................................................................................................................. 01444 236000 East Midlands Trains .................................................................................... 01332 867026 Flexicon Ltd ......................................................................................................... 01675 466900 Hayley Group Plc .......................................................................................... 0870 850 3526 Ilecsys ....................................................................................................................... 01442 828387 ILME UK Ltd...................................................................................................... 0151 336 9321 ITT Interconnect Solutions – Cannon & Veam........................ 01256 311200 Kraus Elektrotechnik..................................................................................... 01749 840889 LB Foster Rail Technologies (UK) Limited ................................ 0114 256 2225 Leyland and Birmingham Rubber Ltd .......................................... 0161 655 0300 Lucchini UK Ltd .............................................................................................. 0161 886 0300 PMA UK Ltd...................................................................................................... 01264 333527 Rex Bousfield Ltd............................................................................................ 01883 717033 Rowe Hankins Ltd........................................................................................ 0161 765 3000 Termate ................................................................................................................. 0115 978 4652 Transec (UK) Ltd.............................................................................................. 01306 743355 Treadmaster Transport Flooring ....................................................... 01579 321 984 Unipart Rail (T & RS)..................................................................................... 01302 731628 Universal Boltforgers Ltd ........................................................................ 0121 522 5950 Westcode (UK) Ltd ........................................................................................ 01249 822283

De-Icing Airquick (Newark) Ltd .................................................................................. 01636 Arrow Cleaning & Hygiene Solutions (Arrow Solutions).... 01283 Arrowvale Electronics .................................................................................. 01527 Autoglym PSV .................................................................................................... 01462

640480 221044 514151 687416

Decals & Transfers 3M Rail Solutions ............................................................................................ 01344 858704 Archer Signs & Panels Ltd .................................................................... 0115 927 3100

Disc Springs Bauer Springs Ltd .......................................................................................... 01527 594900 Radius Systems Ltd...................................................................................... 01773 582312

Equipment & Protection A Plant Rail ......................................................................................................... 01925 281 000 Albatros UK.......................................................................................................... 01908 305740 Speedy Hire Ltd ............................................................................................... 01942 720000

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CATEGORY LISTINGS Floor Coverings

Timbmet Ltd ........................................................................................................ 01865 862223 Transec (UK) Ltd.............................................................................................. 01306 743355 Tuffa UK Ltd ........................................................................................................ 01889 567700 Unipart Rail (T & RS)..................................................................................... 01302 731628 ZF Great Britain .............................................................................................. 0333 240 1123

High Holborn Road, Ripley, Derbyshire, DE5 3NT Contact: E: T: F: W:

Jemma Masters info@forbo-transportflooring.com 01773 744121 01773 744142 www.forbo-flooring.com/transport

Miscellaneous & Specialist

Allelys Heavy Haulage ................................................................................. 01527 857621 Garic Ltd................................................................................................................. 01206 233720

Albatros UK.......................................................................................................... 01908 305740 Atlas Copco Compressors Ltd ............................................................ 01442 261201 Augean Plc ........................................................................................................... 01780 444900 Britax PSV Wypers Ltd ......................................................................... 01905 350500 CF Booth Ltd ...................................................................................................... 01709 559198 Treadmaster Transport Flooring ....................................................... 01579 321 984 Watermark Ltd................................................................................................. 0208 606 2000 ZF Great Britain .............................................................................................. 0333 240 1123

Leasing Companies

Recycling

Angel Trains Ltd ............................................................................................. 0207 592 0500

CF Booth Ltd ...................................................................................................... 01709 559198

Lighting & Cabling

Refurbishment

Elmbridge Cables Ltd .................................................................................. 01273 391810 Emergi-Lite ......................................................................................................... 0113 281 0600 Translec Ltd ......................................................................................................... 01457 878888

Archer Signs & Panels Ltd .................................................................... 0115 927 3100 Britax PSV Wypers Ltd ......................................................................... 01905 350500 CF Booth Ltd ...................................................................................................... 01709 559198 Dynex Semiconductor................................................................................. 01522 502753 East Midlands Trains .................................................................................... 01332 867026 Glentworth Rail Ltd ........................................................................................ 01628 639823 Grayson Thermal Systems .................................................................... 0121 700 5610 Leyland and Birmingham Rubber Ltd .......................................... 0161 655 0300 Railcare Ltd .......................................................................................................... 01908 574400 Rex Bousfield Ltd............................................................................................ 01883 717033 Wabtec .................................................................................................................... 01302 340700 ZF Great Britain .............................................................................................. 0333 240 1123

Heavy Haulage

Maintenance & Repair Airquick (Newark) Ltd .................................................................................. 01636 640480 Albatros UK.......................................................................................................... 01908 305740 Archer Signs & Panels Ltd .................................................................... 0115 927 3100 Autodrain.............................................................................................................. 0113 288 0022 Axminster Carpets Ltd................................................................................ 01297 630686 Bingham Rail/Bingham Cotech ......................................................... 0870 774 2341 Britax PSV Wypers Ltd ......................................................................... 01905 350500 East Midlands Trains .................................................................................... 01332 867026 Garrandale Ltd .................................................................................................. 01332 291100 Glentworth Rail Ltd ........................................................................................ 01628 639823 Hollywell Building Services .................................................................... 01727 810 555 Houghton International ............................................................................. 0191 234 3000 Ilecsys ....................................................................................................................... 01442 828387 Lucchini UK Ltd .............................................................................................. 0161 886 0300 Rowe Hankins Ltd........................................................................................ 0161 765 3000 Sabre Rail Services Ltd.............................................................................. 01325 300505 SCS Group ......................................................................................................... 0141 429 6769 Smith Bros & Webb Ltd ............................................................................ 01789 400096 Timbmet Ltd ........................................................................................................ 01865 862223 Unipart Rail (T & RS)..................................................................................... 01302 731628 ZF Great Britain .............................................................................................. 0333 240 1123

Manufacturing Adaptaflex ............................................................................................................. 01675 468222 Alstom Transport ........................................................................................... 0207 438 9231 Arrowvale Electronics .................................................................................. 01527 514151 Asset International .......................................................................................... 01633 273081 Britax PSV Wypers Ltd ......................................................................... 01905 350500 Burns Carlton plc .......................................................................................... 0113 367 2850 GMT Rubber-Metal-Technic Ltd ........................................................ 01943 870670 Houghton International ............................................................................. 0191 234 3000 ICEE ........................................................................................................................... 02392 230604 ILME UK Ltd...................................................................................................... 0151 336 9321 Leyland and Birmingham Rubber Ltd .......................................... 0161 655 0300 Lucchini UK Ltd .............................................................................................. 0161 886 0300 Morganite Electrical Carbon Ltd ......................................................... 01792 763000 Plascoat Systems Ltd ................................................................................. 01252 733777 PPG Protective & Marine Coatings .................................................. 01773 814520 R S Clare & Co Ltd...................................................................................... 0151 702 5262 Renishaw Plc .................................................................................................... 01904 736 736 Rex Bousfield Ltd............................................................................................ 01883 717033 WWW.THECONNECTSERIES.CO.UK

Road Rail Lorries, Trucks Or Vehicles SRS Rail System International Limited .......................................... 01246 241312

Sanding 3M Rail Solutions ............................................................................................ 01344 858704 Mechan Ltd ..................................................................................................... 0114 257 0563 Schenck Process UK Limited ............................................................... 01302 321313 Wetton Cleaning Services Ltd ............................................................ 0207 237 2007

Textiles & Carpeting Axminster Carpets Ltd................................................................................ 01297 630686 Forbo Flooring Systems ...................................................................... 01773 744121 Replin Fabrics Ltd........................................................................................... 01721 724311 Treadmaster Transport Flooring ....................................................... 01579 321 984

Train Protection Hima-Sella Ltd ................................................................................................. 0161 429 4508 PMA UK Ltd...................................................................................................... 01264 333527 Rowe Hankins Ltd........................................................................................ 0161 765 3000 STM Security UK Ltd ................................................................................. 0208 518 9682

Train/Carriage, Supply/Design/Manufacture Axminster Carpets Ltd................................................................................ 01297 630686 Semperit ................................................................................................................. 01327 313140

Upholstery Andrew Muirhead & Son Limited ..................................................... 0141 554 3724 Be-Ge Seating UK Ltd................................................................................ 0115 9898750 Replin Fabrics Ltd........................................................................................... 01721 724311 Transcal Ltd ....................................................................................................... 01506 440 111

Vehicle Hire/Maintenance Aquarius Railroad Technologies Ltd ............................................... 01765 635021 East Midlands Trains .................................................................................... 01332 867026

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ROLLING STOCK VEHICLE HIRE/MAINTENANCE

FORBO FLOORING SYSTEMS

CATEGORY LISTINGS European Metal Recycling Ltd, TMA ............................................ 01793 863 202 Premier Pits.......................................................................................................... 01775 821222 TravelMaster ........................................................................................................ 01795 660066

Dura Composites Ltd .................................................................................. 01255 423601 Lochrin Steel Palisade Fencing ........................................................... 01236 457333 Zaun Ltd ............................................................................................................. 01902 796 699

Weighing Systems

Fire Detection/Protection/Prevention

Schenck Process UK Limited ............................................................... 01302 321313 Weighwell Engineering Ltd .................................................................... 0114 269 9955

Asco Extinguishers Ltd............................................................................. 0141 427 1144 Baldwin Boxall Communications........................................................ 01892 664422 Emergi-Lite ......................................................................................................... 0113 281 0600 Wolseley UK ........................................................................................................ 01926 705000

SAFETY & SECURITY Abloy UK ................................................................................................................ 01902 364500 Austin Reynolds Ltd...................................................................................... 01932 568888 Rosehill Rail ................................................................................................... 07739 320 924 Semperit ................................................................................................................. 01327 313140

ZAUN LTD Steve Roberts steve.roberts@zaun.co.uk 01902 796 699 01902 796 698 www.zaun.co.uk

Alarms Baldwin Boxall Communications........................................................ 01892 664422 Optyma Security Systems Ltd ........................................................... 0208 304 8635 Senator Security Services Ltd .............................................................. 01543 411811

Batteries & Power Supplies

ROLLING STOCK VEHICLE HIRE/MAINTENANCE

Creasefield Ltd – Custom Battery Packs....................................... 01460 54800 DMS Technologies......................................................................................... 01794 525400 Enersys Ltd ........................................................................................................ 0161 794 4611 Hoppecke Industrial Batteries Limited......................................... 01782 667 305 Martek ...................................................................................................................... 01954 267726 UK Cables ............................................................................................................. 01708 680786

Crest Medical ..................................................................................................... 0845 2302090 Lee Brothers...................................................................................................... 0870 850 7773 RT Training Solutions Ltd ......................................................................... 01473 242344 Safe Aid Supplies .......................................................................................... 0239 225 4442

Health & Safety

Steel Drive, Wolverhampton, WV10 9ED Contact: E: T: F: W:

First Aid & Medical Equipment

CCTV AMG Systems UK Ltd................................................................................. 01767 600777 Anixter Ltd............................................................................................................. 01925 848019 Axis Communications (UK) Ltd............................................................ 01923 211417 Bridgeway Consulting Ltd...................................................................... 0115 919 1111 Camwatch Ltd ................................................................................................. 0114 281 9999 Concept Security (UK) Ltd .................................................................... 0845 061 4613 Digital Barriers Plc ........................................................................................ 0207 940 4740 Eurocom Ltd ..................................................................................................... 0207 820 8344 Fone-Alarm Installations Ltd .................................................................. 01737 223673 Hima-Sella Ltd ................................................................................................. 0161 429 4508 Lanes Group PLC Rail Division ........................................................... 01708 528770 Melford Electronics Ltd .............................................................................. 01494 638069 Optyma Security Systems Ltd ........................................................... 0208 304 8635 Petards .................................................................................................................. 0845 002 0123 Senator Security Services Ltd .............................................................. 01543 411811 Taylor Technology Systems ................................................................. 0208 331 5888 UK Cables ............................................................................................................. 01708 680786 Zaun Ltd ............................................................................................................. 01902 796 699

Achilles Information Ltd.............................................................................. 01235 861118 Archer Signs & Panels Ltd .................................................................... 0115 927 3100 Astec Group Ltd .......................................................................................... 01625 590008 Austin Reynolds Ltd...................................................................................... 01932 568888 Axis Automatic Entrance Systems Ltd........................................ 0844 504 6545 Berry Systems ................................................................................................... 01902 491100 Buck & Hickman .............................................................................................. 01293 561651 Derma Shield ...................................................................................................... 01633 877569 Donseed Ltd ..................................................................................................... 0207 240 3007 RT Training Solutions Ltd ......................................................................... 01473 242344 Safeguard Pest Control ............................................................................. 01959 565777 Scientifics Ltd ................................................................................................... 0845 603 2112 Speedy Hire Ltd ............................................................................................... 01942 720000

Lighting Emergi-Lite ......................................................................................................... 0113 281 0600 Fone-Alarm Installations Ltd .................................................................. 01737 223673 Morris Site Machinery................................................................................ 0845 409 0280 Peli Products (UK) Ltd................................................................................. 01457 869999 Wolseley UK ........................................................................................................ 01926 705000

Medical Services ABC Medical Services Ltd. ................................................................... 08452 300 999 Premier Medical Group ............................................................................ 0844 5611 681

Miscellaneous & Specialist AB Hoses & Fittings Ltd ............................................................................ 01246 208831 Abloy UK ................................................................................................................ 01902 364500 Badgemaster Ltd .......................................................................................... 01623 723 112 Baldwin Boxall Communications........................................................ 01892 664422 Furse ........................................................................................................................ 0115 964 3700

Personal Protective Equipment 3M Rail Solutions ............................................................................................ 01344 858704 Alexandra Plc.................................................................................................... 0845 155 2288 Arco Ltd .................................................................................................................. 01482 222522

BALLYCLARE LIMITED

Clothing

Union House, Hempshaw Lane, Stockport, Cheshire, SK1 4LG

Ballyclare Limited .................................................................................... 07801 597 802 Jermyn Street Design ................................................................................ 0208 563 5000 Safe Aid Supplies .......................................................................................... 0239 225 4442 United Hygiene Services ......................................................................... 0845 450 2024

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Maggie Shaw maggie.shaw@ballyclarelimited.com 07801 597 802 08444 932 805 www.ballyclarelimited.com

Fencing Abloy UK ................................................................................................................ 01902 364500 Alltype Fencing Specialists Ltd ............................................................ 01268 545192 Berry Systems ................................................................................................... 01902 491100

Lee Brothers...................................................................................................... 0870 850 7773 Safe Aid Supplies .......................................................................................... 0239 225 4442 VI Distribution Ltd ........................................................................................... 01270 750520

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CATEGORY LISTINGS Quality & Safety Consultants

Internet Services

Astec Group Ltd .......................................................................................... 01625 590008

Nexus Alpha Limited .................................................................................. 0207 622 6816

LRQA – Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance Ltd ................ 0800 783 2179

Primary Image Limited ................................................................................ 01702 680690

Senator Security Services Ltd .............................................................. 01543 411811

Speedy Rail .......................................................................................................... 01942 277000

Abloy UK ................................................................................................................ 01902 364500

IT Consultancy/Equipment/Maintenance

Arrowvale Electronics .................................................................................. 01527 514151

DeltaRail Group Ltd....................................................................................... 01332 221000

Axis Automatic Entrance Systems Ltd........................................ 0844 504 6545

Detica Ltd .............................................................................................................. 01483 816000

Berry Systems ................................................................................................... 01902 491100

Donseed Ltd ..................................................................................................... 0207 240 3007

Capital Safety ..................................................................................................... 01527 548000

iBlocks Ltd .......................................................................................................... 0207 234 9060

Commend UK Ltd .......................................................................................... 01279 872020

Konica Minolta ................................................................................................... 01268 644416

Donseed Ltd ..................................................................................................... 0207 240 3007

SELEX Elsag........................................................................................................ 01268 823510

Firecrest UK Ltd ............................................................................................... 01623 861331 Rosehill Rail ................................................................................................... 07739 320 924 Safe Aid Supplies .......................................................................................... 0239 225 4442 Senator Security Services Ltd .............................................................. 01543 411811 Techno Rail .......................................................................................................... 01938 555511

Security Personnel

IT Systems/Software/Hardware Achilles Information Ltd.............................................................................. 01235 861118 Advanced New Technology ................................................................... 01825 713058 Assured Facilities........................................................................................... 01903 500 999 BAE Systems...................................................................................................... 01935 443000 Captec Ltd............................................................................................................ 01489 866066

Assured Facilities........................................................................................... 01903 500 999

DeltaRail Group Ltd....................................................................................... 01332 221000

Senator Security Services Ltd .............................................................. 01543 411811

iBlocks Ltd .......................................................................................................... 0207 234 9060

STM Security UK Ltd ................................................................................. 0208 518 9682

IDAC Ltd ............................................................................................................... 0844 212 5900

SIGNAL, TELE-COMMUNICATION & IT Fone-Alarm Installations Ltd .................................................................. 01737 223673 NuAspect Ltd ................................................................................................... 0207 101 0800 Telent......................................................................................................................... 01926 693564

Cable Supply/Jointing/Installation Anixter Ltd............................................................................................................. 01925 848019 AzteQ Solutions Ltd ...................................................................................... 01442 244444

Konica Minolta ................................................................................................... 01268 644416 Nexus Alpha Limited .................................................................................. 0207 622 6816 Steatite Ltd ........................................................................................................... 01527 512400 Zircon Software ................................................................................................ 01225 764444

Journey Planning iBlocks Ltd .......................................................................................................... 0207 234 9060 Intelenet UK Ltd ............................................................................................. 0207 872 5541 Nexus Alpha Limited .................................................................................. 0207 622 6816

B3 Cable Solutions ...................................................................................... 0161 741 2359

Mass Transit Ticketing

Elmbridge Cables Ltd .................................................................................. 01273 391810

Bemrose Booth ................................................................................................ 01482 826343

Express Electrical & Engineering Supplies Ltd ..................... 0141 941 3689 Fone-Alarm Installations Ltd .................................................................. 01737 223673 Select Cables Ltd ........................................................................................... 02392 652552

Miscellaneous & Specialist AMG Systems UK Ltd................................................................................. 01767 600777 Conair (UK) Ltd ................................................................................................. 01702 544344

Customer Information

Convert Ltd .......................................................................................................... 01732 868131

Achilles Information Ltd.............................................................................. 01235 861118

iBlocks Ltd .......................................................................................................... 0207 234 9060

Baldwin Boxall Communications........................................................ 01892 664422

Intelenet UK Ltd ............................................................................................. 0207 872 5541

Captec Ltd............................................................................................................ 01489 866066

NuAspect Ltd ................................................................................................... 0207 101 0800

Hima-Sella Ltd ................................................................................................. 0161 429 4508

Richo UK Ltd .................................................................................................... 0207 253 4545

Infotec Ltd ............................................................................................................. 01530 560600

Techno Rail .......................................................................................................... 01938 555511

Intelenet UK Ltd ............................................................................................. 0207 872 5541 Nexus Alpha Limited .................................................................................. 0207 622 6816

Radio Communications Eurocom Ltd ..................................................................................................... 0207 820 8344

Data Management

SELEX Elsag........................................................................................................ 01268 823510

Achilles Information Ltd.............................................................................. 01235 861118 Captec Ltd............................................................................................................ 01489 866066

Signal Post Telephone Supply/Installation

Intelenet UK Ltd ............................................................................................. 0207 872 5541

DAC ............................................................................................................................ 01282 447000

Konica Minolta ................................................................................................... 01268 644416

Fone-Alarm Installations Ltd .................................................................. 01737 223673

SELEX Elsag........................................................................................................ 01268 823510

Melford Electronics Ltd .............................................................................. 01494 638069

Datacoms AMG Systems UK Ltd................................................................................. 01767 600777 AzteQ Solutions Ltd ...................................................................................... 01442 244444 Captec Ltd............................................................................................................ 01489 866066 SELEX Elsag........................................................................................................ 01268 823510

In-Train Entertainment

Signalling Solutions Ltd............................................................................ 01923 635 135

Signalling Installation/Equipment/Testing Assembly Solutions Ltd ............................................................................. 01204 521999 Eltek Power (UK) Ltd .................................................................................... 01442 219355 NuAspect Ltd ................................................................................................... 0207 101 0800 RT Training Solutions Ltd ......................................................................... 01473 242344 Schroff UK Ltd................................................................................................... 01442 240471

Steatite Ltd ........................................................................................................... 01527 512400

Signalling Solutions Ltd............................................................................ 01923 635 135

Volo TV & Media Limited ........................................................................ 0207 193 0997

STS Rail Ltd (formerly STS Signals) ................................................ 01384 567755

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SIGNAL, TELE-COMMUNICATION & IT SIGNALLING INSTALLATION/EQUIPMENT/TESTING

Steatite Ltd ........................................................................................................... 01527 512400

Safety & Security Equipment

CATEGORY LISTINGS TEW Engineering Ltd ................................................................................. 0115 935 4354

Concrete/Foam Injection

Unipart Rail (Infra) ............................................................................................ 01270 847600

TAM International UK Limited ............................................................. 0333 240 9966

Variable Message Signs Ltd ................................................................ 0191 423 7070

Switching Systems & Equipment Amelec Instruments ...................................................................................... 01908 567003 Colas Rail ............................................................................................................. 0207 593 5350 Signalling Solutions Ltd............................................................................ 01923 635 135

SIGNAL, TELE-COMMUNICATION & IT SIGNALLING INSTALLATION/EQUIPMENT/TESTING

Termate ................................................................................................................. 0115 978 4652

Telecoms Cabling/Engineering

Grouting Barcol........................................................................................................................ 01268 764642 Concrete Repairs Ltd ................................................................................ 0208 288 4848 TAM International UK Limited ............................................................. 0333 240 9966

Manual Tunnelling Tayban Concrete Products Ltd......................................................... 01204 691 313

Assembly Solutions Ltd ............................................................................. 01204 521999

Mechanical Tunnelling

AzteQ Solutions Ltd ...................................................................................... 01442 244444

Barhale ..................................................................................................................... 01922 726731

Cubis Industries................................................................................................ 02838 313100

Herrenknecht International Ltd .......................................................... 0191 548 9191

Elmbridge Cables Ltd .................................................................................. 01273 391810

IDAC Ltd ............................................................................................................... 0844 212 5900

Eltek Power (UK) Ltd .................................................................................... 01442 219355 Eurocom Ltd ..................................................................................................... 0207 820 8344 Fone-Alarm Installations Ltd .................................................................. 01737 223673 RT Training Solutions Ltd ......................................................................... 01473 242344 UK Cables ............................................................................................................. 01708 680786

Telephones & Accessories

Miscellaneous & Specialist Concrete Repairs Ltd ................................................................................ 0208 288 4848 Deepdale Engineering Company Ltd.............................................. 01384 480022 Factair Ltd ............................................................................................................. 01473 746400 SRS Rail System International Limited .......................................... 01246 241312 STRAIL (UK) Ltd ......................................................................................... 01483 222 090

Fone-Alarm Installations Ltd .................................................................. 01737 223673

TAM International UK Limited ............................................................. 0333 240 9966

Ticketing/Validation Systems

Open-face Tunnelling

Bemrose Booth ................................................................................................ 01482 826343

Herrenknecht International Ltd .......................................................... 0191 548 9191

Convert Ltd .......................................................................................................... 01732 868131

Tayban Concrete Products Ltd......................................................... 01204 691 313

iBlocks Ltd .......................................................................................................... 0207 234 9060 Magnadata International Ltd ................................................................ 01205 591 767 Masabi Ltd .......................................................................................................... 0207 089 8860 Novacroft ............................................................................................................. 0845 330 0601

Transmission

Pipejacking/Segmented Tunnelling Barhale ..................................................................................................................... 01922 726731 F.P. McCann Ltd ........................................................................................... 0287 964 2558 HB Tunnelling Ltd ......................................................................................... 0845 388 3325 Herrenknecht International Ltd .......................................................... 0191 548 9191

AMG Systems UK Ltd................................................................................. 01767 600777 Zircon Software ................................................................................................ 01225 764444

Shaft Sinking HB Tunnelling Ltd ......................................................................................... 0845 388 3325

Turnkey IT Solutions

Herrenknecht International Ltd .......................................................... 0191 548 9191

Steatite Ltd ........................................................................................................... 01527 512400

Perco Engineering Services Ltd........................................................ 0115 933 5000

Wireless Technology

Sheet Piling

AMG Systems UK Ltd................................................................................. 01767 600777

Deepdale Engineering Company Ltd.............................................. 01384 480022

Anixter Ltd............................................................................................................. 01925 848019

HB Tunnelling Ltd ......................................................................................... 0845 388 3325

Axell Wireless...................................................................................................... 01494 777000 Donseed Ltd ..................................................................................................... 0207 240 3007 SELEX Elsag........................................................................................................ 01268 823510

TUNNELLING & BRIDGES Amalgamated Construction Co Ltd............................................... 01226 243 413 ASD Metal Services ................................................................................. 01132 540711

Bridge Beams ASD Metal Services ................................................................................. 01132 540711 Dura Composites Ltd .................................................................................. 01255 423601 Sangwin .................................................................................................................. 01482 329921 Tayban Concrete Products Ltd......................................................... 01204 691 313

Bridge Construction & Repair Concrete Repairs Ltd ................................................................................ 0208 288 4848 J Murphy & Sons Ltd................................................................................. 0207 267 4366 Story Contracting Ltd .................................................................................. 01228 590444 TAM International UK Limited ............................................................. 0333 240 9966 Tayban Concrete Products Ltd......................................................... 01204 691 313 Timbmet Ltd ........................................................................................................ 01865 862223 WYG......................................................................................................................... 0113 278 7111 If your entry is incorrect please complete and return the amendment form on page 79â&#x20AC;&#x201C;80

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ALPHABETICAL SUPPLIER LISTINGS 21st Century Technology Solutions Ltd..................................... 0844 871 7990 3D Laser Mapping........................................................................................ 0870 442 9400 3M CPPD............................................................................................................... 01609 780170 3M Rail Solutions ............................................................................................ 01344 858704 A Plant Rail ......................................................................................................... 01925 281 000 AB Hoses & Fittings Ltd ............................................................................ 01246 208831 Abbott Risk Consulting Ltd .................................................................... 0133 2886045 ABC Medical Services Ltd. ................................................................... 08452 300 999 ABET Ltd.............................................................................................................. 0207 473 6910 Abloy UK ................................................................................................................ 01902 364500 ABP Hams Hall Rail Freight Terminal ............................................. 01675 461300 Achilles Information Ltd.............................................................................. 01235 861118 ACO Technologies Plc.................................................................. 01462 816666 (263) Adaptaflex ............................................................................................................. 01675 468222 Adien Ltd................................................................................................................ 01302 802200 Advanced New Technology ................................................................... 01825 713058 Aerco Ltd ............................................................................................................... 01403 260206 Aggregate Industries UK Ltd ................................................................. 01530 510066 Ainscough Crane Hire Ltd ..................................................................... 01257 478 524 Airquick (Newark) Ltd .................................................................................. 01636 640480 Albatros UK.......................................................................................................... 01908 305740 Alexandra Plc.................................................................................................... 0845 155 2288 Alfred Bagnall & Son .................................................................................... 01274 714800 All Clothing & Protection Ltd ............................................................... 023 8042 8003 Allelys Heavy Haulage ................................................................................. 01527 857621 Allen Design Group ..................................................................................... 0114 251 8809 Alltype Fencing Specialists Ltd ............................................................ 01268 545192 Alstom Transport ........................................................................................... 0207 438 9231 Alvey & Towers ................................................................................................. 01949 861894 Amalgamated Construction Co Ltd............................................... 01226 243 413 Amelec Instruments ...................................................................................... 01908 567003 Amey OW Ltd .................................................................................................... 01865 713100 AMG Systems UK Ltd................................................................................. 01767 600777 Amtrain (Midlands) Ltd.............................................................................. 01283 792 633 Ancon Building Products Ltd ................................................................ 0114 2755224 Anderton Concrete Products Limited ............................................... 01606 79436 Andrew Muirhead & Son Limited ..................................................... 0141 554 3724 Angel Trains Ltd ............................................................................................. 0207 592 0500 Anixter Ltd............................................................................................................. 01925 848019 Antagrade Electrical Ltd ............................................................................ 01606 833299 Antal International Network................................................................... 0870 428 1745 APB Group Ltd ................................................................................................. 01538 755377 Application Solutions (Safety and Security) Ltd ................... 01273 405 435 Aqua Geocomposites..................................................................................... 01695 51933 Aquarius Railroad Technologies Ltd ............................................... 01765 635021 Arbil Ltd ................................................................................................................... 01384 424007 Archer Signs & Panels Ltd .................................................................... 0115 927 3100 Arco Ltd .................................................................................................................. 01482 222522 ARM Engineering............................................................................................. 02392 458005 Arriva Trains Wales ...................................................................................... 029 2072 0516 Arrow Cleaning & Hygiene Solutions (Arrow Solutions).... 01283 221044 Arrowvale Electronics .................................................................................. 01527 514151 Asco Extinguishers Ltd............................................................................. 0141 427 1144

ASD METAL SERVICES Valley Farm Road, Stourton, Leeds, LS10 1SD Contact: E: T: F: W:

A B 74

Barrie Salter enquiries@asdmetalservices.co.uk 01132 540711 01132 721689 www.asdmetalservices.co.uk

Assembly Solutions Ltd ............................................................................. 01204 521999 Asset International .......................................................................................... 01633 273081 Associated Train Crew Union ............................................................... 01226 716417

Associated Utility Supplies (AUS) Ltd............................................. 01484 860575 Association for European Transport.............................................. 0207 348 1970 Assured Facilities........................................................................................... 01903 500 999 Astec Group Ltd .......................................................................................... 01625 590008 AST Language Services Ltd ................................................................ 0115 970 5633 Atlas Copco Compressors Ltd ............................................................ 01442 261201 Atmosair Ltd ...................................................................................................... 0208 605 1370 Auckland Construction Ltd ..................................................................... 01462 733755 Augean plc ........................................................................................................... 01780 444900 Austin Reynolds Ltd...................................................................................... 01932 568888 Autodrain.............................................................................................................. 0113 288 0022 Autoglym PSV .................................................................................................... 01462 687416 Avondale Environment Services Ltd ............................................... 01634 823207 Axell Wireless...................................................................................................... 01494 777000 Axis Automatic Entrance Systems Ltd........................................ 0844 504 6545 Axis Communications (UK) Ltd............................................................ 01923 211417 Axminster Carpets Ltd................................................................................ 01297 630686 Aztec Chemicals .............................................................................................. 01270 655500 AzteQ Solutions Ltd ...................................................................................... 01442 244444 B3 Cable Solutions ...................................................................................... 0161 741 2359 Babcock Rail....................................................................................................... 01698 203005 Badgemaster Ltd .......................................................................................... 01623 723 112 BAE Systems...................................................................................................... 01935 443000 Bakerail Services Ltd ................................................................................... 01480 471349 Balcombe Pest Control............................................................................ 01444 811 916 Baldwin Boxall Communications........................................................ 01892 664422 Ballast Tools (UK) Ltd .................................................................................. 01793 697800

BALLYCLARE LIMITED Union House, Hempshaw Lane, Stockport, Cheshire, SK1 4LG Contact: E: T: F: W:

Maggie Shaw maggie.shaw@ballyclarelimited.com 07801 597 802 08444 932 805 www.ballyclarelimited.com

BAM Nuttall Ltd .............................................................................................. 0203 205 1950 Barcol........................................................................................................................ 01268 764642 Bardon Contracting....................................................................................... 01530 510066 Barhale ..................................................................................................................... 01922 726731 BATT CABLES Plc ......................................................................................... 01322 441165 Bauer Springs Ltd .......................................................................................... 01527 594900 BCM Construction Ltd.............................................................................. 0208 640 7887 Bechtel Ltd ......................................................................................................... 0208 846 5111 Beejay Rail Ltd ................................................................................................ 0141 553 1133 Be-Ge Seating UK Ltd................................................................................ 0115 9898750 Belmont International Ltd ......................................................................... 01732 744700 Bemrose Booth ................................................................................................ 01482 826343 Berry Systems ................................................................................................... 01902 491100 Best Impressions........................................................................................... 020 8740 6443 BEW Ltd ................................................................................................................. 01245 496064 Bingham Rail/Bingham Cotech ......................................................... 0870 774 2341 Birse Rail .............................................................................................................. 0121 456 4200 BMT Reliability Consultants .................................................................... 01489 553100 BOC Gases ........................................................................................................... 0800 111 333

BOND DICKINSON LLP 4 More London Riverside, London, SE1 2AU Contact: E: T: F: W:

David Rewcastle david.rewcastle@bonddickinson.com 0345 415 0000 0345 415 6200 www.bonddickinson.com

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ALPHABETICAL SUPPLIER LISTINGS Bosch Rexroth................................................................................................... 01480 223200 Boxwood Ltd .................................................................................................... 0203 170 7240 Bradgate Containers .................................................................................... 01509 508678 Brandpool Ltd .................................................................................................. 0207 467 9717 Brecknell Willis Co ............................................................................................. 01460 64941 Bridgeway Consulting Ltd...................................................................... 0115 919 1111

Cromwell Tools Ltd ..................................................................................... 0116 288 8000 Crossrail ................................................................................................................... 0207 150 845 CSRE Ltd ............................................................................................................. 0207 193 7351 Cubis Industries................................................................................................ 02838 313100 Cundall ................................................................................................................... 0191 213 1515

CUTHBERTSON LAIRD GROUP BRITAX PSV WYPERS LTD Navigation Road, Diglis, Worcester, WR5 3DE Contact: E: T: F: W:

Contact: E: T: W:

Paul Curry paul.curry@psvwypers.com 01905 350500 01905 763928 www.psv-wypers.com

British Transport Police (Crime Reporting).................................. 0800 405 040 Brixwoth Engineering Co Ltd ................................................................ 01604 880338 Buck & Hickman .............................................................................................. 01293 561651 Budenberg Gauge Co Ltd ..................................................................... 0161 777 7300 Building Design Partnership ................................................................. 0161 828 2200 Bureau Veritas UK Ltd .............................................................................. 01279 634 054 Burns Carlton Plc .......................................................................................... 0113 367 2850 Business Systems UK Ltd ..................................................................... 0800 458 2988 Byroc Railway Support............................................................................. 0118 907 1341 C A J Services Ltd ......................................................................................... 01933 355001 C Spencer Ltd ................................................................................................... 01469 532266 C2E Consulting ................................................................................................. 07789 902012 Cabfind .................................................................................................................. 0870 170 0777 Cable Management Products Ltd..................................................... 01675 468200 Cabline UK.......................................................................................................... 0115 922 5229 Cairn Cross Civil Engineering Ltd .................................................... 0113 284 2415 Calco ....................................................................................................................... 0208 655 1600 Calders & Grandidge.................................................................................... 01205 358866 Calibre Search ................................................................................................. 0113 274 3039 Calmet Laboratory Services ................................................................. 0208 977 8455 Camira Fabrics Ltd ........................................................................................ 01924 490591 Camlok Lifting Clamps ............................................................................... 01244 375375 Campaign for Better Transport ......................................................... 0207 566 6480 Camwatch Ltd ................................................................................................. 0114 281 9999 Capita Travel & Events ............................................................................. 0871 521 9800 Capital Safety ..................................................................................................... 01527 548000 Captec Ltd............................................................................................................ 01489 866066 CDI Anders Elite Ltd ................................................................................... 0207 680 3100 Celtic Recycling Ltd ...................................................................................... 01633 274700 Cembre.................................................................................................................... 01675 470440 CF Booth Ltd ...................................................................................................... 01709 559198 Chemsearch ........................................................................................................ 01902 510202 Civils and Lintels (Grafton Merchanting GB)............................. 01865 871700 Clements Technical Recruitment Ltd ........................................... 0845 223 5303 Colas Rail ............................................................................................................. 0207 593 5350 Collis Engineering Ltd.................................................................................. 01773 833255 Commend UK Ltd .......................................................................................... 01279 872020 Commercial Property Maintenance Services (CPMS) ...... 01505 382333 Complete Drain Clearance ...................................................................... 01785 665909 Conair (UK) Ltd ................................................................................................. 01702 544344 Concateno South .......................................................................................... 0207 712 8000 Concept Security (UK) Ltd .................................................................... 0845 061 4613 Concrete Repairs Ltd ................................................................................ 0208 288 4848 Construction Marine Ltd ......................................................................... 0113 262 4444 Construction Team Technologies Ltd.......................................... 0113 248 5650 Convert Ltd .......................................................................................................... 01732 868131 Costain..................................................................................................................... 01628 842444 CPC Project Services ................................................................................ 0207 539 4750 Craig & Derricott Ltd .................................................................................... 01543 375541 Creasefield Ltd – Custom Battery Packs....................................... 01460 54800 Crest Medical 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Parkburn Court, Glasgow Road, Hamilton, ML3 0QQ Peter Greenshields hamilton@cuthbertsonlaird.co.uk 01698 829711 www.cuthbertsonlaird.co.uk

D.R.B Power Transmission Ltd ........................................................... 01244 280280 DAC ............................................................................................................................ 01282 447000 Danfo UK Limited.......................................................................................... 0208 380 7370 Danny Sullivan & Sons Ltd .................................................................... 0208 961 1900 Danzer Ltd .......................................................................................................... 0161 337 3511 Dartford Composites.................................................................................... 01322 350097 Data Display UK Ltd ..................................................................................... 02392 247500 David Stanley Transport ............................................................................ 01530 510550 Deepdale Engineering Company Ltd.............................................. 01384 480022 DeltaRail Group Ltd....................................................................................... 01332 221000 Derby Engineering Unit Ltd..................................................................... 01332 660364 Derma Shield ...................................................................................................... 01633 877569 Detica Ltd .............................................................................................................. 01483 816000 Digital Barriers Plc ........................................................................................ 0207 940 4740 Direct Enquiries Ltd ....................................................................................... 01344 360101 Direct Track Solutions Ltd ....................................................................... 01246 810198 DMS Technologies......................................................................................... 01794 525400 Donseed Ltd ..................................................................................................... 0207 240 3007 Dorman Traffic Products Ltd ................................................................. 01704 518000 Drallim Industries Ltd ................................................................................... 01424 205140 Drilling and Sawing Association ........................................................ 0844 879 3452 Dron & Wright .................................................................................................. 0207 891 2345 Dura Composites Ltd ................................................................................ 01255 687 253 Dynex Semiconductor................................................................................. 01522 502753 E Dyer Engineering Ltd ............................................................................ 0208 681 0588 EAO Ltd .................................................................................................................. 01444 236000 East Midlands Trains .................................................................................... 01332 867026 EDM Ltd................................................................................................................ 0161 203 3150 Edmiston Brown & Co ltd ...................................................................... 0141 554 2891 Edmundson Electrical Ltd - Twickenham ................................. 0208 891 1331 EFG Office Furniture Ltd ......................................................................... 0845 608 4100 Eldapoint Ltd..................................................................................................... 0151 548 9838 Electric Traction Ltd ...................................................................................... 01467 624366 Elmbridge Cables Ltd .................................................................................. 01273 391810 Eltek Power (UK) Ltd .................................................................................... 01442 219355 Emergi-Lite ......................................................................................................... 0113 281 0600 Emerson Network Power ....................................................................... 0114 247 8369 Enersys Ltd ........................................................................................................ 0161 794 4611 Era Technology Ltd ....................................................................................... 01372 367007 Esmerk Ltd ......................................................................................................... 0118 956 5820 Eurocom Ltd ..................................................................................................... 0207 820 8344 European Metal Recycling Ltd, TMA ............................................ 01793 863 202 Evolution Recruitment ............................................................................... 0208 673 2211 Exel Composites.............................................................................................. 01928 701515 Exide Technologies ..................................................................................... 0845 606 4111 Express Electrical & Engineering Supplies Ltd ..................... 0141 941 3689 Express Medicals Ltd ................................................................................ 0207 500 6900 Exterion Media (UK) Limited................................................................. 0207 428 2885 F.P. McCann Ltd ........................................................................................... 0287 964 2558 Factair Ltd ............................................................................................................. 01473 746400 Faiveley Transport Ltd............................................................................... 0151 649 5000 FB Taylor (Cable Contractors) Ltd .................................................... 01765 600261

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ALPHABETICAL SUPPLIER LISTINGS Ferrograph Ltd ................................................................................................ 0191 280 8800 Fiberweb GO Synthetics ......................................................................... 01621 874 200 Fi-Glass Developments .............................................................................. 01732 863465 Firecrest UK Ltd ............................................................................................... 01623 861331 First Aid Services and Training .......................................................... 01405 869 495 First Group.......................................................................................................... 0207 725 2748 Flexicon Ltd ......................................................................................................... 01675 466900 FLI Structures ..................................................................................................... 01452 722200 Flowfront Ltd ....................................................................................................... 01978 355770 Fluke (UK) Ltd .................................................................................................. 0207 942 0700 Fone-Alarm Installations Ltd .................................................................. 01737 223673

FORBO FLOORING SYSTEMS High Holborn Road, Ripley, Derbyshire, DE5 3NT Contact: E: T: F: W:

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Jemma Masters info@forbo-transportflooring.com 01773 744121 01773 744142 www.forbo-flooring.com/transport

Fowler & Holden Ltd..................................................................................... 01472 355316 FPA Consulting ............................................................................................... 01332 604 300 Frankham Consultancy ............................................................................ 0208 309 7777 Fuchs Lubricant (UK) Plc .......................................................................... 01782 203700 Furse ........................................................................................................................ 0115 964 3700 Futurelink.............................................................................................................. 0845 620 9255 G F Gordon (Plant Hire) Ltd ................................................................... 01245 471917 Gable (UK) Ltd ................................................................................................... 02392 466416 Garic Ltd................................................................................................................. 01206 233720 Garrandale Ltd .................................................................................................. 01332 291100 GD Rectifiers Ltd ............................................................................................. 01444 243452 Gedore ..................................................................................................................... 01756 798625 General Information Systems Ltd ...................................................... 01223 873333 Glasgow Freight Park ................................................................................ 0141 810 8200 Gleeds Cost Management Ltd .......................................................... 0117 317 3200 Glentworth Rail Ltd ........................................................................................ 01628 639823 GMT Manufacturing Ltd .......................................................................... 0151 630 1545 GMT Rubber-Metal-Technic Ltd ........................................................ 01943 870670 Grayson Thermal Systems .................................................................... 0121 700 5610 Groeneveld UK Ltd ........................................................................................ 01509 600033 GVA Grimley Ltd ............................................................................................ 0844 902 0304 Habia Cable ......................................................................................................... 01454 412522 Hambleton Risk Management Ltd .................................................... 01904 728995 Hardy Aggregates........................................................................................... 01749 880735 Harmill Systems Ltd ...................................................................................... 01525 851133 Harp Visual Communications Ltd ...................................................... 01329 844005 Harting Ltd ............................................................................................................ 01604 827500 Hawker Siddeley Switchgear ................................................................ 01495 223001 Hayley Group Plc .......................................................................................... 0870 850 3526 HB Tunnelling Ltd ......................................................................................... 0845 388 3325 Henkel Ltd – Loctite...................................................................................... 01442 278000 Herrenknecht International Ltd .......................................................... 0191 548 9191 Hima-Sella Ltd ................................................................................................. 0161 429 4508 Hitachi Rail Europe Ltd ............................................................................ 0207 970 2700 Homegrown Timber (Rail) Ltd............................................................. 01293 821 321 Hoppecke Industrial Batteries Limited......................................... 01782 667 305 Houghton International ............................................................................. 0191 234 3000 Huber & Suhner (UK) Ltd........................................................................ 01869 364 100 Hy-Ram Engineering Ltd .......................................................................... 01623 422982 Hy-Ten Ltd.......................................................................................................... 0800 037 1507 iBlocks Ltd .......................................................................................................... 0207 234 9060 ICEE ........................................................................................................................... 02392 230604 IDAC Ltd ............................................................................................................... 0844 212 5900 Ilecsys ....................................................................................................................... 01442 828387 ILME UK Ltd...................................................................................................... 0151 336 9321

IMS (Impact Marketing Solutions Ltd)............................................ 01923 277828 Infotec Ltd ............................................................................................................. 01530 560600 Inntel ........................................................................................................................ 0844 847 5533 Intec (UK) Ltd ..................................................................................................... 01524 865555 Intelenet UK Ltd ............................................................................................. 0207 872 5541 Interfleet Technology Ltd .......................................................................... 01332 223000 Intertrain .................................................................................................................. 01302 815530 Invest In Cumbria ............................................................................................ 01768 895350 ITT Interconnect Solutions – Cannon & Veam........................ 01256 311200 J B Corrie & Co Ltd ...................................................................................... 01730 237100 J Murphy & Sons Ltd................................................................................. 0207 267 4366 Jacobs ..................................................................................................................... 0141 2438000 Jermyn Street Design ................................................................................ 0208 563 5000 Jewers Doors Ltd ........................................................................................... 01767 317090 Jobson James Insurance Brokers Limited .............................. 0121 452 8717 John Sisk Rail Ltd t/a Sisk Rail ......................................................... 0117 916 3800 Jones Lang LaSalle Ltd ........................................................................... 0207 399 5864 Keighley Laboratories Ltd ........................................................................ 01535 664211 Keltbray Aspire Rail Ltd ........................................................................... 0207 643 1000 Keyline Nationals .............................................................................................. 0800 833 375 Keytech Systems Ltd .................................................................................. 01772 706330 Kier Construction Ltd................................................................................... 01767 355000 Kobelco Cranes Europe Ltd .................................................................. 01342 301122 KONE Plc............................................................................................................... 01535 662841 Konica Minolta ................................................................................................... 01268 644416 Kraus Elektrotechnik..................................................................................... 01749 840889 Kroy (Europe) Ltd .......................................................................................... 01189 865 200 L&W Contractors............................................................................................. 01403 784286 Lanes Group PLC Rail Division ........................................................... 01708 528770 LB Foster Rail Technologies (UK) Limited ................................ 0114 256 2225 Lee Brothers...................................................................................................... 0870 850 7773 Lend Lease......................................................................................................... 0208 271 8000 Leyland and Birmingham Rubber Ltd .......................................... 0161 655 0300 Lindapter International ................................................................................ 01274 521444 Lloyds Somers................................................................................................... 01792 656951 LML Products Ltd .......................................................................................... 01249 814271 Local Transport Today ............................................................................... 0845 2707861 Lochrin Steel Palisade Fencing ........................................................... 01236 457333 Lokring Central (UK)...................................................................................... 01928 564640 LRQA – Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance Ltd ................ 0800 783 2179 Lucchini UK Ltd .............................................................................................. 0161 886 0300 Lundy Projects Ltd....................................................................................... 0161 476 2996 M.A.C Solutions (UK) Ltd ....................................................................... 01527 838 138 Magnadata International Ltd ................................................................ 01205 591 767 Mainframe Communications Ltd ........................................................ 01702 443800 Mainline Resourcing Ltd .......................................................................... 0845 083 0245 Mallatite ................................................................................................................. 01246 593 280 Mansell Construction Services........................................................... 0207 490 1220 Market Force Business Media.............................................................. 0207 7608699 Martek ...................................................................................................................... 01954 267726 Masabi Ltd .......................................................................................................... 0207 089 8860 Mass Contracts Ltd .................................................................................... 07956 246 843 Maxim Power Tools Ltd .......................................................................... 0141 552 5591 McGinley Support Services Limited .............................................. 0845 543 5953

MECHAN LTD Sir John Brown Building, Davy Industrial Park, Prince of Wales Road, Sheffield, Yorkshire, S9 4EX Contact: E: T: W:

Lee Pitts info@mechan.co.uk 0114 257 0563 www.mechan.co.uk

Melford Electronics Ltd .............................................................................. 01494 638069 Merson Signs Ltd............................................................................................ 01355 243021 Met Systems Ltd ........................................................................................... 0203 246 1000

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ALPHABETICAL SUPPLIER LISTINGS MGS Demco ....................................................................................................... 02476 602323 Mike Worby Survey Consultancy ....................................................... 01707 333677 Momentum Services Ltd......................................................................... 0207 843 5619 Morgan Hunt ..................................................................................................... 0207 419 8968 Morgan Sindall Plc ......................................................................................... 01788 534500 Morgan Vincroft .............................................................................................. 0208 127 1441 Morganite Electrical Carbon Ltd ......................................................... 01792 763000 Morris Site Machinery................................................................................ 0845 409 0280 Nelson Stud Welding UK .......................................................................... 01296 435092 Nexus Alpha Limited .................................................................................. 0207 622 6816 Norgren Ltd.......................................................................................................... 01543 265000 Novacroft ............................................................................................................. 0845 330 0601 NSG UK Ltd ........................................................................................................ 01244 833100 NuAspect Ltd ................................................................................................... 0207 101 0800 OCÉ (UK) Ltd ...................................................................................................... 01277 846120 Oil Analysis Services..................................................................................... 01474 854450 Omega Red Group Limited .................................................................. 0115 877 6666 Optimedia ............................................................................................................ 0207 961 1000 Optyma Security Systems Ltd ........................................................... 0208 304 8635 Oxford Hydrotechnics Ltd ....................................................................... 01869 346001 Parex ....................................................................................................................... 01827 711 755 Parkeon Ltd ....................................................................................................... 01202 339 494 Parkeon Transit Ltd..................................................................................... 01202 339 404 Partex Marking Systems (UK) Ltd ..................................................... 01675 463670 Passengerfocus .............................................................................................. 0300 123 2140 Peak Oil ................................................................................................................... 01246 450242 PEI Genesis UK Ltd .................................................................................... 0844 871 6060 Peli Products (UK) Ltd................................................................................. 01457 869999 Perco Engineering Services Ltd........................................................ 0115 933 5000 Personal Group of Companies ............................................................ 01908 605000 Petards .................................................................................................................. 0845 002 0123 Pitchmastic ASL Contracts (Visul Systems).............................. 0191 4021912 Plascoat Systems Ltd ................................................................................. 01252 733777

PMA UK LTD Unit 4, Imperial Court, Magellan Close, Walworth Industrial Estate, Andover, Hampshire, SP10 5NT Contact: E: T: F: W:

Donna Clash donna.clash@tnb.com 01264 333527 01264 333643 www.pma-uk.com

Polydeck Ltd ....................................................................................................... 01934 863678 Polypipe Civils Ltd .......................................................................................... 01509 615100 PPG Protective & Marine Coatings .................................................. 01773 814520 PPIY Chartered Architects Ltd............................................................. 01904 623034 Precise Media .................................................................................................. 0207 264 4731 Premier Medical Group ............................................................................ 0844 5611 681 Premier Pits.......................................................................................................... 01775 821222 Prestige Couriers ........................................................................................... 0207 384 2300

Risktec Solutions Ltd ................................................................................... 01925 611200 Rittal Ltd ................................................................................................................. 01709 704000 Robinson Kenning & Gallagher.......................................................... 0208 684 8125

ROSEHILL RAIL Watson Mill Lane, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 3BW Contact: E: T: W:

Peter Anderson peter.anderson@rosehillrail.com 07739 320 924 www.rosehillrail.com

Rowe Hankins Ltd........................................................................................ 0161 765 3000 RT Training Solutions Ltd ......................................................................... 01473 242344 Russell Railfreight Terminal – Barking .......................................... 0208 517 6490 Sabre Rail Services Ltd.............................................................................. 01325 300505 Safe Aid Supplies .......................................................................................... 0239 225 4442 Safeguard Pest Control ............................................................................. 01959 565777 Sangwin .................................................................................................................. 01482 329921 Sasse Ltd............................................................................................................... 01332 362425 Schenck Process UK Limited ............................................................... 01302 321313 Schneider Electric Ltd ................................................................................. 01628 741050 Schroff UK Ltd................................................................................................... 01442 240471 Scientifics Ltd ................................................................................................... 0845 603 2112 ScreenSafe UK Ltd........................................................................................ 08450 505590 ScrewFast Foundations ............................................................................. 01727 821282 SCS Group ......................................................................................................... 0141 429 6769 Select Cables Ltd ........................................................................................... 02392 652552 Selectequip Ltd................................................................................................. 01543 416641 SELEX Elsag........................................................................................................ 01268 823510 Semmco Ltd ..................................................................................................... 01483 757 200 Semperit ................................................................................................................. 01327 313140 Senator Security Services Ltd .............................................................. 01543 411811 SGS CORREL Rail Ltd ............................................................................. 0121 326 3672 Signalling Solutions Ltd............................................................................ 01923 635 135 Sitec ........................................................................................................................... 01252 341999 Smith Bros & Webb Ltd ............................................................................ 01789 400096 Solo Fabrications Ltd ................................................................................. 0121 327 3378 Speedy Hire Ltd ............................................................................................... 01942 720000 Speedy Rail .......................................................................................................... 01942 277000 SPL Powerlines UK Ltd ............................................................................. 01236 424666 SRS Rail System International Limited .......................................... 01246 241312 St. Leonards Railway Engineering Ltd .......................................... 01233 617001 Stamps Direct .................................................................................................... 01603 624407 Stanton Bonna Concrete Ltd .............................................................. 0115 944 1448 Steatite Ltd ........................................................................................................... 01527 512400 Steelway ................................................................................................................. 01902 834911 Steer Davies Gleave.................................................................................... 0207 910 5000 STM Security UK Ltd ................................................................................. 0208 518 9682 Stokes Associates Ltd ................................................................................ 07846 561370 Story Contracting Ltd .................................................................................. 01228 590444 Story Rail Ltd ...................................................................................................... 01228 640880

Primary Image Limited ................................................................................ 01702 680690 Primat Recruitment ...................................................................................... 0161 975 4332 Probst Handling & Laying Systems ................................................. 01939 235325 Quattro Group ................................................................................................. 0845 900 2999 R S Clare & Co Ltd...................................................................................... 0151 702 5262 Radius Systems Ltd...................................................................................... 01773 582312 Rail Images ........................................................................................................... 01702 525059 Railcare Ltd .......................................................................................................... 01908 574400

STRAIL (UK) LTD 3 Tannery House, Tannery Lane, Woking, Surrey, GU23 7EF Contact: E: T: W:

Richard Whatley richard@srsrailuk.co.uk 01483 222 090 www.strail.com

Renishaw Plc .................................................................................................... 01904 736 736 Replin Fabrics Ltd........................................................................................... 01721 724311 Rex Bousfield Ltd............................................................................................ 01883 717033 Richo UK Ltd .................................................................................................... 0207 253 4545 Riker Ltd ................................................................................................................. 01249 814271 WWW.THECONNECTSERIES.CO.UK

Strand 7 UK Ltd ............................................................................................... 01480 211011 STS Rail Ltd (formerly STS Signals) ................................................ 01384 567755 Stuart Slatter Training.................................................................................. 01565 750557 Suretrack Rail Services Limited......................................................... 0208 519 9142

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ALPHABETICAL SUPPLIER LISTINGS TT UK Ltd .............................................................................................................. 01234 342566

SW GLOBAL RESOURCING

TTI Inc ....................................................................................................................... 01438 794170

270 Petershill Road, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G21 4AY

Tuffa UK Ltd ........................................................................................................ 01889 567700

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Tüv Süd ................................................................................................................... 01489 558100

Turner & Townsend..................................................................................... 0207 544 4000

admin@sw-gr.com 0844 692 0692 0844 692 0693 www.sw-gr.com

UK Cables ............................................................................................................. 01708 680786 UNIC Cranes ..................................................................................................... 01844 202 071 Unipart Rail (T & RS)..................................................................................... 01302 731628 Unipart Rail (Infra) ............................................................................................ 01270 847600

SWEETT GROUP

United Eco Services ................................................................................... 0845 450 2024

60 Gray’s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8AQ

United Hygiene Services ......................................................................... 0845 450 2024

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Universal Boltforgers Ltd ........................................................................ 0121 522 5950

Eryl Evans – Director of Transport eryl.evans@sweettgroup.com 0207 061 9016 / 07765 021957 0207 430 0603 www.sweettgroup.com

System Store Solutions Ltd.................................................................... 01622 859522 T P Bennett ........................................................................................................ 0207 208 2000 TAM International UK Limited ............................................................. 0333 240 9966 Tata Steel............................................................................................................... 01724 403398 Tayban Concrete Products Ltd......................................................... 01204 691 313 Taylor Maxwell ................................................................................................... 07774 900170 Taylor Technology Systems ................................................................. 0208 331 5888 Techno Rail .......................................................................................................... 01938 555511 Technology Resourcing ............................................................................. 01483 302211 Telent......................................................................................................................... 01926 693564 Telford International Railfreight Park.............................................. 01952 608 410 Ten 47 Ltd ............................................................................................................ 01592 655725 Termate ................................................................................................................. 0115 978 4652 TES 2000 Ltd ..................................................................................................... 01206 799111 TEW Engineering Ltd ................................................................................. 0115 935 4354 The Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport................ 01536 740 100 The Clancy Group ........................................................................................ 01895 823 711 The Institution of Engineering and Technology ...................... 01438 767224 The Institution of Railway Operators ............................................... 01444 248931 The Russell Group........................................................................................ 0141 810 8200 The Trevor Patrick Partnership .......................................................... 0207 940 6500 Thetford International ................................................................................... 01842 890500 Thomson Ecology........................................................................................... 01462 675559 Thorntask Ltd ................................................................................................... 0208 801 1203 Timbmet Ltd ........................................................................................................ 01865 862223 TNE Ltd ................................................................................................................... 01388 451111 TNT UK Ltd .......................................................................................................... 01827 303030 TopDeck Parking............................................................................................. 01902 499400 Torrent Trackside Limited ........................................................................ 01543 421900 Townscape Products Limited ............................................................. 01623 513 355 TRAC ......................................................................................................................... 01698 831111 Trackline Training Limited ...................................................................... 0161 872 2400 Trackwork Ltd.................................................................................................... 01302 888666 Traction & Rolling Stock Advertiser ................................................. 01379 651683 Train Chartering Company Ltd, The................................................ 01249 890176 Trane UK Ltd ...................................................................................................... 08457 165162 Transcal Ltd ....................................................................................................... 01506 440 111 Transec (UK) Ltd.............................................................................................. 01306 743355 Translec Ltd ......................................................................................................... 01457 878888 Travelers Insurance Company Ltd.................................................... 01737 787787 TravelMaster ........................................................................................................ 01795 660066

Universal Sealants (UK) Ltd .................................................................. 0191 416 1530 Universal Services Ltd................................................................................. 01594 560555 Urban Initiatives .............................................................................................. 0207 843 3165 Variable Message Signs Ltd ................................................................ 0191 423 7070 VI Distribution Ltd ........................................................................................... 01270 750520 Visul Systems ................................................................................................... 0191 416 1530 Volo TV & Media Limited ........................................................................ 0207 193 0997 Voucher Systems Ltd ................................................................................ 0845 601 6020 WA Products ...................................................................................................... 01621 786654 Wabtec .................................................................................................................... 01302 340700 Wago Ltd ............................................................................................................... 01788 568008 Walker Construction ................................................................................... 01303 851 111 Waterflow ............................................................................................................... 01753 810999 Watermark Ltd................................................................................................. 0208 606 2000 Watmores Solicitors .................................................................................... 0207 430 1512 Weidmuller Ltd .................................................................................................. 01732 877000 Weighwell Engineering Ltd .................................................................... 0114 269 9955 Welding Alloys Ltd.......................................................................................... 01763 207568 West Coast Training ................................................................................... 0208 834 9151 Westcode (UK) Ltd ........................................................................................ 01249 822283 Westermo Data Communications ..................................................... 01489 580585 Wetton Cleaning Services Ltd ............................................................ 0207 237 2007 Whitford Ltd ....................................................................................................... 01928 571 000 Witherby’s ........................................................................................................... 0207 253 5413 Wolseley UK ........................................................................................................ 01926 705000 Wood & Wood Signs ................................................................................... 01392 444501 WORLifts – Rail ............................................................................................... 0121 460 1113 WYG......................................................................................................................... 0113 278 7111 Yellow Rail Ltd ................................................................................................... 01332 258865 YJL Infrastructure.......................................................................................... 0207 522 3220 York EMC Services ....................................................................................... 01904 324440 Zarges (UK) Ltd ................................................................................................ 01908 641118

ZAUN LTD Steel Drive, Wolverhampton, WV10 9ED Contact: E: T: F: W:

Steve Roberts steve.roberts@zaun.co.uk 01902 796 699 01902 796 698 www.zaun.co.uk

ZF Great Britain .............................................................................................. 0333 240 1123 Zircon Software ................................................................................................ 01225 764444 Zoeftig Ltd ........................................................................................................... 01288 354 512 Zyda Law Solicitors ....................................................................................... 01789 413949

Treadmaster Transport Flooring ....................................................... 01579 321 984 Trox (UK) Ltd....................................................................................................... 01842 754545

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