Rail infrastructure contractor · Bootle, Merseyside
Rail infrastructure services, delivered safely.
Unity Rail Services is a rail engineering contractor based in Bootle, Liverpool City Region. Civils, cable routes and telecoms, utility connections and track-side works for the UK network, across the North West and nationally.
Ferazzi House, Bootle L30 4UA
What we do
Five service lines for the operational railway
The work that keeps infrastructure projects moving: groundworks, cabling, utility interfaces, station and depot works, and the people and plant to deliver them in a possession.
Rail civils and groundworks
Excavation, foundations, troughing routes, drainage and small structures on and around the operational railway.
Detail 02Cable routes, telecoms and power
Ducting and troughing, cable pulling and laying, fibre and copper telecoms, lineside power and equipment housings.
Detail 03Utility connections and diversions
Gas, water, electricity and telecoms assets where they meet the railway: diversions, new connections and protection of services.
Detail 04Track-side, station and depot works
Platform, compound, hardstanding, walkway, fencing and minor structural works at stations, depots and lineside sites.
Detail 05Skilled labour and plant
Competent track-side operatives, supervisors, machine operators and plant to support contractors' programmes and possessions.
DetailWho we work with
Set up for the organisations that build and run the railway
Unity Rail Services is a business-to-business contractor. We take on packages of work as a subcontractor or directly, and we size our teams to the programme in front of us.
Discuss a project- 01Principal contractors delivering rail enhancement and renewal programmes
- 02Network Rail route and capital delivery teams
- 03Train and freight operating companies with stations and depots to maintain
- 04Utility and telecoms network owners with assets at the rail interface
- 05Developers and landowners with sites beside the railway
How we work
Planned, briefed, safe, finished properly
Rail work happens in short windows with no room for improvisation. These are the commitments we make on every job.
Planned before it starts
Every job is planned around the possession, isolation or line blockage it needs, with method, access, plant and logistics agreed before anyone goes track-side.
Competent, briefed people
We put on site only people who hold the competencies their role requires, and every shift begins with a briefing on the task, the hazards and the protection in place.
Safe by default
Risk assessments and method statements are prepared for the work, reviewed with the client and followed on site. If conditions change, the work stops until the plan is revised.
Finished properly
Work is handed back on time and tidy, with the photographs, test results and as-built records the client needs to close the job out.
Where we work
North West base, national reach
We are based in Bootle, minutes from the Liverpool docks and the Merseyside network, and work across the North West. Teams can be mobilised for programmes anywhere in Great Britain.
About the companyOur group
The rail company of an established Merseyside utilities group
Unity Rail Services shares its ownership and its Bootle base with two utility contracting businesses. It brings that background in groundworks, cabling and network construction to the railway.
National Utilities Ltd
Multi-utility connections contractor: gas, water, electricity and associated groundworks for developments.
NU Networks Ltd
Construction of electricity and telecommunications networks.
Next step
Have a package of rail work to price?
Tell us about the scope, the location and the dates. We will come back to you to discuss how we can support it.
Ferazzi House
Bridle Way
Bootle L30 4UA
Company number 16536392