Business profile
Master of all trades S
hannon Rail Services was founded by managing director Pat McAnulty in 2002, initially to provide a mobile site access control solution for track renewals and enhancement projects across the industry.
The company’s main depot is at
Watford Junction, adjacent to the Network Rail yard. Operating from this central location Shannon Rail Services has developed into a comprehensive railway business providing site access control facilities and staff, training and medical services, haulage and logistics support, and labour supply to contractors on Network Rail and Transport for London infrastructure.
Additional satellite depots and stabling points for the company’s growing fleet of vehicles are located at Peterborough, Doncaster and Sandiacre .
One of the biggest challenges has been to keep abreast of the frequent changes affecting the company’s customer base
as contracts and territories within the privatised railway industry have changed hands at regular intervals. Another problem that affected Shannon Rail in line with many companies was the demise of Jarvis, one of its major clients. ‘It was a difficult time but we came through it,’ said Pat McAnulty.
But while Shannon Rail has managed to grow steadily in the last few years McAnulty stressed that more investment in new vehicles and technology is dependent on contractors taking a longer-term view of their operational requirements and the structure of the industry has not always encouraged this.
Industry leading However, things may be about to change as Shannon Rail has recently embarked on a development programme working with Amey COLAS JV to provide bespoke mobile site access control/site support offices to support high-output track
Shannon Rail Services is excited at the prospect of creating an industry leading solution to transient worksites
renewals. McAnulty is excited at the prospect of creating an industry leading solution to transient worksites. ‘The problem with high-output was that a traditional static compound was set up which, as the train moved on night after night and week after week in each campaign, became progressively more isolated from the worksite. So much so that site facilities were at times
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