Network Rail select Stannah once again as their lift service partner

Stannah is delighted to announce its successful bid for the Network Rail lift and escalator tender.

Stannah has worked with Network Rail over two decades and has now won a new five-year contract. Alongside the lift maintenance contract, Stannah has won the contract to maintain escalators for the first time, a significant addition to the Stannah portfolio. The company has also been appointed to both the lift and escalator renewal and replacement frameworks, allowing their Major Projects Division, which specialises in technically complex special lifts, lifts within infrastructure projects and escalators, to bid for the replacement of current lift and escalator assets.

Winning this tender, potentially worth over £50million over the five-year period, is a huge testament to the incredibly hard work that the Stannah team have put in. Stannah’s Network Rail Department, Maintenance and Repair division and Major Projects Team have all worked diligently throughout the current 10-year contract to build an extensive and responsive support capability for Network Rail.

During that period, Stannah engineers have serviced almost 1500 lifts across 554 stations from Penzance to Inverness. Each year, the teams clock up around 35,000 visits, totalling around 67,000 hours of service of full and preventative maintenance. Stannah’s Major Projects Division has also completed over 130 new lift installation, lift modernisation and replacement projects just in the last three years. With 1.6 billion train journeys made by rail passengers in the last year, keeping lifts fully functioning is vital to support Network Rail in “putting passengers first”.

To have won this contract again demonstrates just how compelling the Stannah offer and service delivery is. The Network Rail contract has some demanding targets that Stannah is regularly benchmarked against. Stannah’s hardworking engineers deliver against these targets time and time again with a high level of dedication and expertise.

Alastair Stannah, Managing Director of Stannah Lifts Distribution & Service, explains: “Our work within the rail sector has grown significantly in the last ten years. Our renewed contract with Network Rail will mean we can build on the excellence our teams and processes bring, working day and night, in order to prevent downtime for the thousands of railway travellers who rely on the network every day.”

“On behalf of all the family, I’d like to congratulate all our teams working on the Network Rail contract for this fantastic win and send our sincere thanks to them for their dedication, commitment and skill. We are truly delighted that we have retained this flagship contract and rightly proud of our fantastic teams for securing it.”

Network Rail work is undertaken via the Stannah nationwide network of eleven local service branches from which more than 360 highly-trained lift engineers provide local service. The whole contract is managed centrally by a dedicated rail department that meets regularly with Network Rail managers and key decision-makers within routes and train operating companies.