Continuous eight-hour shifts. A Grove 250 XL. One of the North's biggest rail investments in decades and John Sutch Cranes embedded in the programme at Dewsbury.
When Royal BAM Group need a crane on a Tier 1 rail programme, they call John Sutch Cranes.
The TransPennine Route Upgrade is one of the most significant rail infrastructure investments in the North of England's history. Millions of pounds. Years of programme. Dozens of contractors, subcontractors and specialists all moving in sequence.
BAM are delivering at Dewsbury Train Station. John Sutch Cranes are on site with them.
Running Day and Night
The Grove 250 XL - 53.5m boom, 80 tonnes of ballast — is running continuous eight-hour shifts, day and night.
A programme like TRU doesn't pause. Neither does the lifting requirement.
Platform materials. Concrete support structures. Steelwork. Plant machinery. Excavated spoil. Every lift keeps the station rebuild on programme, and keeps the wider TRU sequence moving with it.
This isn't a one-off lift or a reactive callout. It's a trusted specialist embedded in the programme, with operators and slinging teams who know what's expected on every shift.
Operators: Ian, Tony, Stuart, Chris.
Slinging teams: day shifts on site; night shifts led by Marc Johnson, Nile Harwood-Jenkins and Mark Rodgers.
"Programmes like TRU don't run on one shift a day, and neither do we," says Paul Parry, Sales Director at John Sutch Cranes.
"Dewsbury is a good example of what Tier 1 contractors actually need from a crane partner — not just the machine, but the crew, the continuity and the reliability to keep a sequence like this moving around the clock. That's the standard we hold ourselves to on every shift."
If you're delivering at Tier 1 level, you need a crane partner operating at the same standard.
