Rail company wins its own Olympics

DONCASTER company Lakeside-based Grant Rail has struck gold by winning two contracts linked to the 2012 London Olympic Games and is now setting up an office in the capital to help carry out the work.
By The Newsroom
Published 10th Oct 2007, 11:23 BST
Updated 12th Oct 2007, 15:59 BST

They will work on the 238m Docklands Light Railway and Stratford International extension, as part of a joint venture with engineering company Skanska.

Doncaster Central MP Rosie Winterton, also minister of state for transport, officially opened the company’s new base: “It is fantastic to see a Doncaster company doing so well. I wish them every future success.”

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The company provides a range of services to the rail industry from major projects to track renewal, signalling, welding, on-track plant and machinery and overhead power supply.

Work on the contracts starts immediately. The project is scheduled for completion by February 2009.

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