The RailStaff Awards 2024

Andy Frost

Said the following about PPS Rail:

“PPS Rail are an integrated planning company that provide excellent planning at a competitive rate, where they excel is that clients do not get one planner they get a team of rail professionals that have varying skill sets including haulage, possession planning, SSOW planning, health , Safety & Environment, S&T, Electrification, Project Management to assist all projects large and small.

Winners of this category in 2015 they have further excelled in the service they deliver to more clients and projects in the UK rail industry than ever before

PPS actively assist armed forces staff to seek employment after a career in the forces comes to an end and also try and assist young people to start on the road to a career with an opportunity to join a fantastic industry joining a team that everyone has a voice and feels like a valued member of the team“

Andy Frost

Said the following about PPS Rail:

“PPS Rail have established themselves as the market leaders as a possession planning company and won this award in 2015.

They have helped deliver some of the biggest projects in the UK working tirelessly behind the scenes and very seldom taking any credit for the success of the scheme.

From working on the winner of major project of the year at Huyton to Roby to assisting with the rationalisation of access for Crossrail Anglia the team deliver results from safety critical resource to project planning.

The company is going from strength to strength and has the right business ethic not putting profit before customer satisfaction and trying to give something back to the rail industry.“

Andy Frost

Said the following about PPS Rail:

“Mark joined PPS from NWR last year after a long career, in many ways this must have been a difficult decision joining a newly established company after a long time in a job that had real stability.

Mark has been a major asset to PPS and never complains when asked to do things outside his comfort zone and has made a real impact within all aspects of assisting to build a company that delivers a quality product to all our customers and boosting business.

Mark has a very good reputation within the UK rail industry for delivering exactly what he says, his knowledge of planning on all routes within the UK are quite frankly the best i have ever witnessed and he is by a very long way the best all round planner i have ever had the good fortune to work with.“

Andy Frost

Said the following about PPS Rail:

“Marks team on Crossrail Anglia for Costain have delivered all targets set for them in a very high pressure environment.

Last year the existing Crossrail possession team left the project and PPS Rail became involved within very tight timescales to set up the access strategy whilst maintaining flawless access on a weekly basis for a live project stretching from Bow Jn to beyond Shenfield.

Initially a 2 man team stepped in and assisted the 1 remaining planner and implemented access strategies, spread sheets and planning systems whilst recruiting the wider team to plug the holes in the org chart

This lead to some frustration in the short term but eventually with the never give up spirit a solution was found and the planning is now on course

So thank you to Mark Reynolds, Eddie Boatang, Rob Cockerton, Steve Jones, Tony Gibson, Emma Reyes & Sunday for all their hard work and dedication“