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Lanes Group PlcMarketing Department
Building 1, 300 Lansdowne Road, Monton, Eccles, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M30 9PJ.
Tel: 0161 788 2266Email: [email protected]
Lanes Group is the largest independent supplier of specialist underground pipeline and utility services in the UK. We have a national network of 23 depots providing a comprehensive range of high quality, innovative utility, drainage and maintenance services for domestic, commercial and public-sector customers.
Lanes Group Case Study
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Challenges and achievements• Demonstrates the benefits of Lanes’ off-road jet vac tankers in working on remote rail drainage assets
• Also shows how cost-effective this equipment is compared with road rail jet vac units, which would require expensive line closures• Joint Lanes and Amco team cleared more than 500 tonnes of rubble and silt from the culvert over 20 working days.
OverviewNetwork Rail was keen to clear a large culvert under the famous Settle to Carlisle rail line. The badly blocked culvert was contributing to frequent localised flooding and deterioration of farm land. Lanes deployed one of its off-road jet vac tankers, demonstrating the approach was the most effective and cost-efficient way to get the job done.
The projectLanes Group was commissioned to clear a 50 metre long and 3 metre wide stone culvert under the Settle to Carlisle rail line. It channels water from a nearby hillside, as well as a large area of farmland, under the railway line.
The culvert contained silt and rubble up to a metre deep. Network Rail was keen to clear the culvert because its reduced capacity was contributing to localised flooding of farm land.
The culvert was 2,000 metres from the nearest road. Conventional jet vac tankers could not cross what was boggy and unstable land, even in the summer. The distance was too great to consider the option of an extended jet vac hose run.
Off road rail culvert clean
Project: Off road rail culvert clean
Client:Amco (for Network Rail)
Sector:Rail
Location:Settle, Yorkshire
www.lanesfordrains.co.ukRef: Lanes case study 054
Big jobOverpumping lines in place as 500 tonnes of debris is removed from the culvert.
Call 24/7 0800 526 488
Lanes Group PlcMarketing Department
Building 1, 300 Lansdowne Road, Monton, Eccles, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M30 9PJ.
Tel: 0161 788 2266Email: [email protected]
Project: Off road rail culvert clean
Client:Amco (for Network Rail)
Sector:Rail
Location:Settle, Yorkshire
www.lanesfordrains.co.uk
The project continued
Lanes off-road jet vacs provide solutionTherefore, Lanes deployed one of its trailer-mounted off-road jet vac units, which is towed by a large agricultural tractor.
The unit has a 3,000 gallon tank, 75 gallons per minute jetting capacity and 1,200 cubic feet per minute suction power. Water can be syphoned off, and the tank tipped to dispose of vacuumed material.
A full risk assessment and methodology was agreed, and robust health and safety measures put in place, including a system of over-pumping to control water levels in the culvert while work was in progress.
A two-man Lanes team worked with three Amco personnel on the job – using the jet vac to remove silt from the culvert, and then hand-digging heavier debris, including rocks and bricks.
A pump, fitted to the jet vac tanker by Lanes, was used to draw water from a nearby brook to allow continuous jetting.
Over a 20-day period, an estimated 500 tonnes of material was removed from the culvert.
Clear cost and time-saving benefitsThe work demonstrated the real benefits of using off-road jet vac assets Lanes can deploy. The only alternative would be to use a road / rail jet vac.
This approach would not have been viable, due to the cost of rail closures (around £5,000 per shift) and the shortened working time per shift, which would have extended the time taken to complete the work still further.
Note: Lanes Group also has a smaller off-road jet vac tanker, which has a 2,000 gallon tank, 55 gallons per minute jetting and 600 cubic feet per minute suction.
Lanes Group Case Study
Ref: Lanes case study 054
Lanes Group is the largest independent supplier of specialist underground pipeline and utility services in the UK. We have a national network of 23 depots providing a comprehensive range of high quality, innovative utility, drainage and maintenance services for domestic, commercial and public-sector customers.
Call 24/7 0800 526 488
Lanes Group PlcMarketing Department
Building 1, 300 Lansdowne Road, Monton, Eccles, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M30 9PJ.
Tel: 0161 788 2266Email: [email protected]
Project: Off road rail culvert clean
Client:Amco (for Network Rail)
Sector:Rail
Location:Settle, Yorkshire
www.lanesfordrains.co.uk
Lanes Group Case Study
Ref: Lanes case study 054
Lanes Group is the largest independent supplier of specialist underground pipeline and utility services in the UK. We have a national network of 23 depots providing a comprehensive range of high quality, innovative utility, drainage and maintenance services for domestic, commercial and public-sector customers.
Silt tipThe landowner agreed to allow debris to be tipped on a field.
Water supplyA pump on the jet vac tanker is used to obtain water from a nearby source.
