Tube contract Wabtec subsidiary Brush Traction of Loughborough has won a contract worth up to £6.5 million from Transport for London to refurbish the motors on the Piccadilly Line fleet, which is to continue for at least another five years until it can be replaced by new trains in the 2020s as part of the New Tube for London programme.
Wagons deal VTG Rail UK has signed an agreement with Mendip Rail Limited for the hire of 130 new aggregate wagons. Theywill be a mixture of hoppers and boxes, and used to move stone from the Aggregate Industries and Hanson ‘super quarries’ in Somerset to various destinations, many in London and the south east. Delivery is due to start next summer.
Cutting costs Consultancy Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has been awarded a contract by Network Rail to help the company reduce its costs by introducing ‘lean’ methods. A similar contract with Highways England has helped save over £90 million since 2010, Jacobs said. The company’s experience with Network Rail includes HS2, Crossrail, Blackfriars station and the former international terminal at Waterloo.