Case Study
Thurso
Trusted to deliver Case study // Thurso CLIENT CONTRACT VALUE DATE COMPLETE Network Rail £700k (part of a £12m contract) June 2017 THE CHALLENGE To deliver an innovative new approach to track maintenance across 300 route miles, in some of the most challenging access and environmental conditions in Scotland. Our challenge was to re-rail more than six miles of track during a twelve-week period, without disrupting normal passenger train operations. WHAT WE DID This project required more than one thousand new sixty-foot long rails. Traditionally, wagons would deliver these rails by road - needing more than one hundred journeys. In a U.K first, we worked together with Network Rail to develop a logistics solution that transported the rails by sea to the nearby harbour at Scrabster. On