Colman Rail Services Ltd · Company 07363501 · Trading heritage since 2010
Active, accounts up to date·main contractor & subcontractor·Head office Chatham
Established in 2010, Colman Rail Services Limited has built a strong reputation in the railway industry through its professional and personal services. The company is committed to upholding industry standards in health, safety, environmental, and quality requirements. They maintain a significant in-house workforce, emphasizing training and staff development to ensure high-quality project delivery.
Colman Rail Services specialises in railway lineside civil engineering and minor building works. Their expertise includes groundwork, drainage, surfacing, fencing, concrete troughing, cable management, and sign installation. They have a proven track record of delivering complex projects, often within operational railway environments, requiring careful planning and execution during restricted access periods.
London
Constructed numerous REB, PSP bases and associated ground works, both on track and at off track locations. Handled trough laying, cable tray/ladder installation, cable recovery and minor building projects such as sub-station buildings.
Client · Network Rail
Watford
Handled all cutting and clearing scrap metal, constructed new access points and walkways as well as other minor civils projects at that site.
London
Carried out building works, constructed three lift motor rooms, brickwork cladding to three lift shafts and the construction of platform buildings. Delivered works around an operational station by working nights, weekends.
London, the South and Home Counties
Involved removing the existing platform surface and re-surfacing whilst replacing tack tiles, copers and lining work.
Carried out the majority of the station upgrades and railway arch redevelopments converting them into shops.
Completed surface water drainage at the base of a railway embankment following embankment re-stabilisation work. Included 900mm and 1050mm diameter pipe runs, six pre cast concrete ring chambers, a bespoke pre-cast concrete chamber and three pre-cast concrete headwalls.
Assisted client to scope locations for required changes to dilapidated and non-compliant railway access points, then constructed new access points based on client's design.
Rochester
Carried out ground work and building work to convert the station, sub-contracting electrical and CCTV requirements. Involved breaking out and resurfacing platform, erection of GRP hand rails, removal of cast iron hand rails, capping stairwells, back filling lift shafts, construction of new stairwell buildings, casting CCTV bases, renovating stairwells and subway, fitting GRP treads and hand rails, resurfacing forecourt, new security fencing and gates, GRP cable tray, and lighting.
Rochester
Constructed a gabion basket wall return adjacent to a concrete retaining wall, near the track. Work was constructed during a weekend 27-hour possession with track monitoring.
Radlett
Installed a 415m walkway route to allow access to points heating equipment, signals, a greasing unit and signal gantries. Included removal of redundant track and debris, ballast board retainment, and nonconductive GRP hand rails on an embankment. Harness and fall arrest was required whilst working on the embankment.
Bermondsey
Installed associated concrete troughing and walkways including hand rails where needed and signal foundations as part of the Thameslink project.
Lewes
Cleared vegetation and rabbits from an embankment containing an HV route, regraded the embankment, laid rabbit netting, installed a new elevated GRC trough route for the HV cable, and slewed the cable into the new route.
Balfour Beatty, Network Rail.
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Colman Rail Services Limited is a railway lineside civil engineering and building works contractor based in Medway, covering London and the South East. Their listed services include Rail infrastructure, Civil engineering, Groundworks, Drainage and Utilities.
Colman Rail Services Ltd is registered at Unit 8, Fort Horsted Business Centre, Primrose Close, Chatham, ME4 6HZ, in South East.
Colman Rail Services Ltd states that it works across London, South East and Home Counties.
Accounts filed for the year to 2025 report 6 employees, which places the company in the 1-9 employees band.
Colman Rail Services Ltd reported turnover of £1.7m in accounts filed for the year to 2025.
Companies House lists Colman Rail Services Ltd as active, with accounts most recently made up to 2025-03-31.
Colman Rail Services Ltd displays RISQS 5 star audit and FORS I.D Number 010538 on its website.
Colman Rail Services Ltd works in Infrastructure.
Colman Rail Services Ltd was incorporated on 2010-09-02.
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