Rail Technology
Serco Rail Technology originated in September 1994 from the elements of the British Railways Board’s Technical Services Business and was subsequently privatised when purchased by Serco in February 1997. It is a licensed train operator with a railway safety case, track access and nationwide depot access agreements.
Raildata
Raildata provides documentation, parts, drawings and Computer Aided Engineering services with responsibility for the PADS 2000 system (Parts and Drawing Systems). PADS is a key tool utilised by Raildata with over 100 user sites throughout the UK rail industry. It allows for access to 650,000 components, 350,000 drawings and 20,000 document records. RDDS contract (Railway Documentation and Drawing Services), provides a digital printing service specialising in large format colour and monochrome prints.
Vehicle acceptance & engineering services
Testing services undertakes independent rail vehicle acceptance testing and supports the railway industry both nationally and internationally with investigations, analysis and solving vehicle/infrastructure related problems.
Materials evaluation
The materials evaluation section provides expertise in the fields of non-destructive and metallurgical testing, investigation and consultancy.
Technical development
The technical development department specialise in the provision of measurement systems for the rail industry. The department provides for project and technical management, software and hardware engineering, instrumentation and system integration, data analysis and validation.
Services
- Vehicle Testing
- Development support
- Metallurgy
- NDT training and inspection
- Instrumentation/measurement/calibration
Technical Development Group
- Asset condition measurement systems
- Evaluation tools
- Software development
- Electronics/instrumentation development
- Systems integration
Serco now maintain and operate 5 mainline railgrinders. They re-profile the railhead throughout the entire UK rail network. The fleet has increased in size from a single 32 stone railgrinder in 2001 to 5 machines totalling 240 stones and currently plan to grind 10,000 miles of track annually.
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