One-Stop-Shop-Maintenance

Successfully maintaining your rolling stock and infrastructure to the highest standard can be a hassle if you have to use multiple companies to get everything taken care of

This makes having a reliable, expert supplier an instrumental pillar to the success of your business. Loram understands the value of having a turnkey approach when it comes to rolling stock, which is why it prides itself on being maintenance experts with an innovative one-stop-shop approach.

With over 50 years of experience in providing services to the rail industry, Loram is continually improving its offering – meaning it delivers cost-effective solutions that keep your assets in optimum condition throughout their operational life.

Loram is proactive and dedicated, incorporating safety and compliance measures into everything it does to ensure that all your rolling stock maintenance needs can be taken care of in the safest way possible.

Rail Grinding

Operating across the entire UK rail network, across Europe and into the Middle East Loram is an industry leader in rail grinding services and bespoke re-engineering projects for heavy haul, high-speed, underground, and metro rail systems.

Loram’s unmatched portfolio consists of numerous services, including production, speciality, and transit rail grinding. These services will significantly reduce wear on your rolling stock, prevent premature rail failures or replacements, and extend your rail and track component life.

Loram’s aim is to maximise your Return on Investment, amplify the value of your rail assets, and ultimately allow you to provide your customers with improved ride quality, comfort and fuel efficiency.

Rail Operations

The unique feature of Loram’s services is that it holds a mainline operating licence, which gives it the ability to operate and move stock, provide drivers to transport trains on the network, and provide a higher level of support to all its customers.

This year, Loram entered into contract with Network Rail for the operation of three trains in their infrastructure monitoring fleet. Delivering this contract requires Loram to hold complex national route knowledge, providing train crew for monitoring trains operating from the depths of Cornwall to northern Scotland and everywhere in between. To achieve this, Loram has invested in its team with planners and control staff. The driver pool also continues to increase with nationally dispersed drivers providing resilience for this contract, and others.

Adhering to strict safety standards, Loram can guarantee that your assets will be handled professionally and with care when moving from one site to another.

Loram’s numerous highly trained crew members can provide you with traction training and route conducting, ad-hoc engineering, and rolling stock movements to and from maintenance facilities.

One fundamental aspect that is needed to keep your rail operations consistent is the capacity of workshop space to undertake repairs. At the Derby RTC Business Park, Loram has an extensive facilities space of 100,000sq ft that provides considerable scope for all fleet sizes and types.

The vast space includes a wash road, fuelling point, pits, workshops and heavy duty craneage which allows Loram to take care of everything in one place without the hassle of moving stock.

Maintenance

Rail vehicle maintenance is crucial for delivering high-quality and high-performing assets to your customers. So, choosing the right maintenance company to invest in can differentiate between fleet failure and optimal operational performance.

As maintenance experts, Loram offers an extensive range of supreme rolling stock engineering and maintenance solutions.

Loram also provides fleet upkeep and repairs out in the field as part of daily routine maintenance, meaning it can attend to your fleet whenever and wherever required.

Ross White, Maintenance and Rail Operations Director said: ‘At Loram, we pride ourselves on the responsiveness and capability of our maintenance staff. We strive for high performance by being intolerant of service failures. We are a customer focussed team which values open and honest communication with the client to deliver an industry-leading service.’

Projects

Loram’s portfolio of resources also includes heavy overhauls and modifications, enhancements, repurposing, and bestin-class refurbishment services. Loram is now six months into a two-year project to repurpose at least 250 side tipper ballast wagons. The work involves removing the tipper element of the wagons to create reusable and far more versatile non-tipping static containers.

Loram UK and Network Rail have worked together on repurposing programmes before, and Andrew Watson, International Business Development Director, said the programme has further strengthened that relationship, adding: ‘The availability of wagons generally is an issue, so to be able to repurpose 250 provides much greater flexibility for Network Rail. It’s a project we’re very excited to be involved in and allows us to expand our horizons. We are always looking at diversifying, and this is allowing us to not only carry out the work but manage the logistics in regards collecting the wagons, the processes around the repurposing and delivering them back to Network Rail.’

The two-year repurposing programme is being done at Loram’s Derby site and is helping secure around 35 jobs for the duration, along with 20 others across the supply chain.

Loram has a superior breadth of experience under its belt, which means it can give you everything you need to consistently optimise operational excellence with minimal downtime.

Whether you are looking to enhance the life of your infrastructure, of your fleet or refurbish rolling stock, you can be assured that Loram’s innovative and specialist services will tick every box.

Get in touch with Loram today via the contact information below to discuss how the team can support your needs.

Tel: 07554 939 396

Email: commerical@loram.co.uk