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Rail Infrastructure

We are helping to answer the major challenges facing Britain’s railway network.

Industry Leading Solutions.

We offer complete end-to-end delivery, from fully insured project design and unique product supply, to full turnkey installation using our specialist partner contractors.

If you’re a designer in transport infrastructure, we can help support your design services across all phases of the project lifecycle by providing detailed technical specifications for our award-winning product range. We have an extensive library of previous projects approved and installed throughout the rail and highways network.

Our industry leading solutions are made from high-strength and low weight Glass Reinforced Polymer, (also sometimes known as fibreglass, GRP or FRP) and help solve the key challenges of capacity, reliability and efficiency faced by everyday rail and transport businesses.

Dura Composites is proud of the diverse clients we work with in both the Railway Infrastructure, Highways and Transport Industries, including Network Rail, London Underground, Crossrail and major rail and highways contractors.

We are members of RISQS  – the rail industry’s supplier registration and qualification scheme, so you can buy from us with confidence. Dura Composites are also members of the Railway Industry Association (RIA), Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) and the UPCRII industry steering group.

Key products include our Queen’s Award Winning composite train station platform Dura Platform, GRP flooring, handrails, trench covers and structures, as well as low maintenance GRP Ballast Retention systems, trackside walkways, pedestrian footbridges and bridge walkways. All our products for infrastructure and civil works offer a fantastic lifecycle cost and are suitable for a wide range of new build and refurbishment projects.

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Rail Products & Applications

Station Platforms & Accessories

A range of solutions for rail stations including platforms, footbridges, daggerboards, end of platform gates & fencing.

External Trackside Solutions

GRP product solutions for external infrastructure such a walkways, fencing, staircases, bridges and elevated platforms

Internal Depot Solutions

GRP product solutions for internal depot buildings, storage facilities and railway maintenance facilities.

Structural Beam Sections

Our GRP structural beam sections offer excellent strength to weight ratio, corrosion resistance, thermal and electric non-conductivity.

Case Studies

Our composite products are ideally suited to the Rail & Transport Industries.

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Our Rail Team

We are helping to answer the major challenges facing Britain’s railway network such as capacity, reliability and efficiency. Composite materials are a realistic long term alternative across a wide range of applications within the Rail Industry in replacing traditional materials. Get in touch on 01255 440291

Richard Palmer

Sales Manager | Rail

Martin​ Strawford

Technical Solutions Manager | Rail

Victoria Lockyear

Account & Vested Stock Manager | Rail

Nithin Karin

Key Account Manager | Rail

Melissa Warren Rail

Melissa Warren

Key Account Manager | Rail

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Dura Composites Are Winners Of The Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation

In 2020, Dura Composites was honoured with its second Queen’s Award for Enterprise, presented by The Lord-Lieutenant of Essex Mrs Jennifer Tolhurst at the company’s Operations Centre in Clacton-on-Sea.

Having previously won a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade in 2017, this time we have been recognised for outstanding Innovation – thanks largely to the success of the rapid-deployment composite train station platform and its ability to improve overall safety for passengers.

With many of the UK’s train station platforms requiring repairs and replacement after decades of rising commuter levels and heavy use, the award-winning Dura Platform has been designed to provide easier access for passengers as well as saving labour costs and reducing installation times for rail contractors who can manoeuvre Dura’s modular platform sections easily without the need for expensive lifting equipment and additional labour that traditional concrete platforms require.

Composite materials are playing an increasingly prominent role in the Rail, Highways and Transport industries thanks to their lightweight nature, durability and fire performance qualities.

Composites offer significant improvements over traditional materials and are providing innovative and sustainable solutions for a range of key infrastructure projects.

Take a look at the highlights of the Queen’s Award presentation – December 2020. Dura Platform, the Queen’s Award-Winning Composite Station Platform, is a breakthrough composite product made from Glass Reinforced Polymer (GRP) which complies with Network Rail specifications and is suitable for both new build and refurbishment projects as a low maintenance and cost-saving alternative to traditional materials such as concrete.
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