12th September 2024- Keltbray Infrastructure Services Limited (KISL) is pleased to announce that it has received the Infrastructure Achievement of the Year Award at the National Rail Awards 2024, alongside our clients Network Rail.
Almost 1,100 people representing all parts of the railway industry convened at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on September 12 to celebrate excellence and innovation at the National Rail Awards 2024.
The winning LTS MK1 OLE Replacement project upgraded the London, Tilbury, and Southend (LTS) railway electrification to enhance OLE performance on the London to Southend routes. It included refurbishment to renew Wire Runs from Fenchurch Street to Barking, Hornchurch (FSS2 route), and Pitsea on the Tilbury Loop route.
KISL’s integrated self-delivery approach successfully completed the works. Our directly employed OLE technicians and specialist rail plant provided the certainty to meet the challenge of delivering electrification above industry standards, significantly reducing the overall project costs by circa 35%.
KISL’s winning rail project team was recognised for successfully eliminating defects within the 35-wire run footprint, removing 150 known issues, and improving asset resilience to weather events, resulting in fewer incidents.
Key benefits included the elimination of 82 full 24-hour road closures, removing over two million vehicle route diversion journeys and over one million pedestrian journey diversions.
The innovative approach removed 984 local authority applications and £247k in traffic management costs, with overall cost savings against the original project benchmark exceeding £7m.
The judges’ citation, read out on the night, said “This impressive approach to a bread-and-butter renewal challenges norms and standards, and in short brings overhead line fitment and renewal into the 21st century.”
Collecting the award on behalf of KISL’s rail business, Neil Lindley said “This is a fantastic achievement on a complex OLE scheme, showcasing KISL’s capabilities in driving innovation onto projects to support the decarbonisation of the UK’s rail network.
Everyone connected with this project from inception to completion was instrumental in tonight’s success and should be extremely proud of their contribution.”
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Philip Pashley
Group Director, Corporate Communications
Email: philip.pashley@keltbrayinfrastructureservices.com
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About Keltbray Infrastructure Services Limited (KISL)
KISL is a leading specialist infrastructure services provider, applying its proactive relationship management approach with customer teams, supply chain partners and regulatory bodies. This promotes early dialogue and proactive design evaluation, facilitating effective communication and identifying key project risks with defined delivery requirements.
Our direct-delivery philosophy in design, project management, engineering, construction and maintenance services, and plant supply allows us to control all aspects of a project, minimising delivery risk and providing greater certainty for our clients.
Our detailed understanding of working in complex, highly regulated infrastructure environments, and the effectiveness of our innovative engineering solutions enables the most complex and technically challenging projects to be delivered to the required specification standards. Our clients benefit from our expert knowledge, best practices, and forward thinking, partnership approach to design and programme opportunities, driving excellence and efficiency in delivery.
Our unique strength is our people, their willingness to identify and overcome problems on a daily basis and their collaborative attitude to deliver projects to the highest possible standard.
About National Rail Awards 2024
The National Rail Awards celebrate achievements and excellence across every aspect of the railway, from senior management to individuals on the front line, as well as safety triumphs, major engineering successes, and environmental sustainability. They recognise outstanding accomplishments over the past year, but particularly look to highlight initiatives which deliver measurable improvements in performance.
By doing so, the rail industry ‘Oscars’ seek to promote the industry’s longer-term success and sustainability, which relies on a highly skilled, diverse, motivated and engaged workforce, and exceptional leaders.