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Assenta Rail has become an established name within the rail industry. The business has been in operation since 2001 and during this time has become a specialist in developing bespoke engineering solutions for the rail industry. The company has extensive experience in the delivery of:
- Maintenance Services
- Overhaul & Refurbishment
- Repairs & Modifications
- Engineering Change Process & Delivery
- Project Management
- Design & Consultancy
Our expertise covers a wide variety of vehicle types (both passenger stock and freight wagons) and projects ranging from small modification projects on individual vehicles to large fleet refurbishment and replacement projects.
Our depot located in Hamilton, Scotland is connected to the rail network and is just 3 miles from Motherwell and the West Coast mainline. By road we are 5 miles from the M8 and M74. The depot is Level 4 maintenance approved and carries out most Heavy Maintenance tasks. We are also approved and listed by the ORR as Light Maintenance Depot.
Maintenance
Assenta Rail has extensive experience in providing maintenance technicians to carry out regular maintenance and safety examinations on a range of carriage and wagons in line with clients VMOI. Our depot based technicians are supported by a mobile technical support squad, providing clients with a local solution when required.
Our team of maintenance technicians can provide a range of Maintenance and Servicing services to our clients including:
- Periodic Maintenance Exams
- Safety Inspections
- Maintenance Repairs
- FTR & RTS
- NIR Checks & Reports
- Train Preparation, Cleaning
- Tanking & Waste Disposal
Overhaul & Refurbishment
Assenta Rail has been undertaking overhaul and refurbishment projects on an extensive variety of railway vehicles since our inception in 2001. Our Hamilton Light Maintenance Depot allows us to offer a complete overhaul package to our clients including:
- Painting & Re-Livery
• Bogie Overhauls
• Heavy Maintenance & C-Exams
• Bogie overhauls
• Bogie and wheelset changes including removal and fitting of bearings, wheelset swaps and NDT testing
• Interior Refurbishment
Assenta Rail is well placed to assist clients with a variety of modification projects. We have worked on a large variety of modifications for our clients from simple LED lighting modification projects to more complex brake modification projects on fleets of vehicles. Our in-house Engineering team is adept at problem solving and working through technical challenges to provide cost effective solutions to our clients.
Repairs
Assenta Rail has been carrying out repairs to vehicles since 2001. We have worked on a variety of repair projects from small repair projects requiring works to be completed within a short time frame to to large collision or corrosion damage repairs requiring an adaptable solution and utilizing our expertise on repairs to find a suitable solution.
- Vehicle repairs from minor repair works to more significant collision repairs and full body repairs
- Painting & Re-Livery
- Structural repairs.
- Damage repairs
- Undertaking repairs & overhaul works since 2001
- In-house paint shop facilities for full vehicle painting & re-livery