Rolling-stock movements
Safe, reliable movement of passenger and freight rolling stock throughout the UK rail network.
- New fleet deliveries, lease hand backs and fleet cascades / redelivery
- Loco hauled unit movements with full brake translation to minimise train length, shunting requirement, and depot disruption
- Depot and works transfers
- Movements for maintenance, refurbishment and overhaul
- Vehicles entering storage or disposal
- Complex and non-standard operations
- Pathing, planning, traction, traincrew and operational delivery as one package
Traction services
Flexible locomotive and traincrew solutions for planned short-notice and specialist operations.
- Flexible locomotive and traincrew solutions for planned short-notice and specialist operations.
- Electric, diesel and bi-mode locomotive fleet providing low carbon and low emissions operations
- Locomotive and traincrew (drivers, shunters) hire
- Route, traction and operational planning
- Short-term and project-specific traction support
- Vehicles entering storage or disposal
- Traction Training including First In Class
Testing and commissioning
Flexible locomotive and traincrew solutions for planned short-notice and specialist operations.
- Mainline testing and commissioning
- Test-train operation
- New traction and fleet introduction
- Mileage accumulation and fault-free running
- Brake, performance and compatibility testing
- Test planning, traincrew and operational management
- Interface with manufacturers, owners, maintainers and infrastructure partners
- Operational safety plans
Passenger and freight operational support
Additional operational capability for train operators, manufacturers, and rolling-stock owners.
- Driver and operational personnel provision
- Competent-person and guard support
- Depot, yard and shunting operations
- Service introduction and mobilisation
- Short-term and project-specific traction support
- Contingency and disruption support
- Temporary and transitional operating arrangements
Rescue, recovery and contingency
Responsive traction and operational support when fleets or services need assistance.
- Failed-train rescue and recovery
- Thunderbird loco provision and blockade support
- Emergency and short-notice rolling-stock movements
- Contingency traction and traincrew provision
- Planned resilience during engineering works and diversions
- Incident support and investigation
Operational consultancy and managed services
Practical railway expertise, delivered by experienced operational professionals.
- Operational readiness and mobilisation
- Safety and operational management support
- Operating instructions and risk assessments
- NRSC/SoCat submission
- Platform–train interface assessments
- Competence-management solutions
- Route and traction introduction
- Operational assurance and compliance reviews
- Interim operational-management resources
ETCS and railway systems projects
Operational expertise supporting the industry’s transition to digital signalling.
- ETCS testing and implementation support
- Driver and operational input
- Trial and commissioning operations
- Training support
- Operational-readiness assessment
- Integration of new systems into existing operations
Storage, fleet transition and disposal
End-to-end support for rolling stock moving between service, storage, reuse and disposal.
- Storage facilities for your rolling-stock
- Transfer into and out of storage
- Storage-site operational support
- Fleet cascade and handback programmes
- Movements to repair or refurbishment facilities
- Delivery to disposal locations
- Coordination of complex multi-vehicle programmes
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Since its establishment, Rail Operations Group has built strong relationships with a wide range of industry partners and customers. We are proud to be trusted by leading organisations across the rail industry.
