January News!

Happy New Year and welcome back to all our clients, collaborators and colleagues who have managed to survive the festive season.  The holidays are now a fading memory but the team at SVM is stronger than ever and eager to tackle an already packed 2026. 

The New Year has seen many new projects arriving at SVM, getting 2026 off to an excellent start.  We have been asked to look at Avanti toilet and waiting room facilities at multiple locations across England; welfare facilities at Haymarket Depot; and a station rewiring project in Cambuslang.  We have also become involved with design for 3 EV Chargers at railway sites; some design at Bowland Junction; and Sudbrook pumping Station (serving the Severn Tunnel).  Meanwhile, Hunterston has been a popular location this month with requests for works associate with a vehicle shelter and 11kV design. 

Big projects for the beginning of 2026 include UPS surveys at multiple railway sites; design at Ayr Station; Inverness Sleeper servicing; Megastream surveys and design; shore supplies in Scarborough, Stourbridge and Banbury; South Gyle Station footbridge design; and design for building services at various stations.  Many other projects also continue to keep up busy across the country starting in snowy Inverness with cabin power design, TMD design; CSMD sump pump works, replacement control panels, Motorail buffer stop lighting; and train crew accommodation.  Moving South, we continue to be involved with AFA schemes at Inverurie and Nairn; provision of design advice for a pumping station and signalling power works in Dundee; and EP design at a yard in Perth.  Things really get exciting heading into the central belt with DNO migration at West Calder; a second phase of Shields feasibility; rectification works at pantograph monitoring sites; and stabling works at Dundee.  We are also making good progress with an active travel path at Dunbar; level crossings at Oyne and Gartley; Motherwell PSP design; Perth Modernisation; Millerhill Depot stabling roads; Yoker Bridge Deck; and Balgray Station AFA.  In the Glasgow area we remain involved with solar EV works at a Railway location on Glasgow’s South Side; further load monitoring and reporting at Corkerhill; MELF works at Yoker; CETs at Craigentinny; Access For All works at Dumbarton Central and Bellgrove Stations; and electrical design at Mossend Rail Terminal.  AFA works at Falkirk Grahamston are getting underway, as are WCML works at Law and Newton; and a rectifier survey at Greenhill.  Meanwhile Edinburgh has seen further AFA works at Cardenden Station; and LV design on the Haymarket to Dalmeny route.  As always, the main Glasgow and Edinburgh stations are heavy hitters with retail design, HV Arch ventilation, design for the Caledonia Sleeper lounge and Caledonia Chambers, UPS works for the CCTV, and PSP/compressor works at Glasgow Central; while Edinburgh Waverley is home to design for lighting control, ventilation refurbishment, advertising boards, calorifiers; and distribution.  Projects that are scattered over multiple sites across the country also remain strong in January with auxiliary signalling power; LV AC/DC power and Telecoms surveys; works on the Aberdeen to Central Belt and Blair Atholl to Dalwhinnie routes; heritage migration works; and ESD design between Glasgow and Edinburgh.  We’re celebrating New Year in England too with design for a railway training facility at Warrington; some further station loading assessments at Hull; Clacton wheel lathe works; and FTN FGI renewals at Stoke and Didcot.  CCTV design in Allerton is awaiting the green light while we have made excellent headway with toilet refurbishments in Scunthorpe and Cleethorpes; Darlington resignalling and Station Car Park CCTV; Transpennine Express premises in Hull, Newcastle and York; Ravensthorpe SFC; and works on the Ferrybridge to Goole route. 

The large scale Stranraer Marina expansion continues to be our largest commercial project and we continue to carry out works for upgrades to a materials shed at one of our client’s premises; a Dentist surgery in Glasgow and electrical design for a workshop near Larbert.  We are also nearing completion on a B&B in pretty Ballater; office refurbishments in Annan and Garscadden; and two recycling plants in the Glasgow area. 

We hope everybody had a lovely time over the holidays.  SVM started in style with a Christmas lunch at Chaophraya followed by the Howlin’ Wolf, which was enough for many to start the Christmas holidays right there! This has left us raring to go with 2026, which is already looking full of new challenges and opportunities right from the beginning.  So if you are interested in the above and looking for a new challenge for 2026, SVM could be the right choice!  Send your CV and covering letter to elise.mclean@svm-glasgow.co.uk and it could make your year!