About Us

Birse Rail is one of the UK’s most experienced specialist railway civil engineering and building contractors.

We provide a full multi-disciplinary engineering service combining design, implementation and commissioning on a full spectrum of projects ranging from minor structural repairs through to complex multi-million pound projects.

Our diverse portfolio of works covers:

• Redevelopment, remodelling and improvements to existing station and depot facilities.
• Design and construction of new stations and depot facilities.
• Structures maintenance and renewal (bridges, tunnels, embankments, cuttings).
• Property maintenance.
• Design and construction of major new structures including overbridges, underbridges and platform extensions.
• Signalling and telecommunications routeworks.

A Balfour Beatty Company

Birse Rail is part of the world-class engineering, construction, services and investment group, Balfour Beatty, which employs nearly 50,000 people worldwide.

Birse Rail operates as part of Balfour Beatty Rail, the leading international rail engineering, design and construction business, employing around 3,000 people with operations throughout the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe, South America, Australia, New Zealand and the Far East.

As a Balfour Beatty company, we benefit from being able to draw on the extensive skills of the Group to enhance the service we provide to our clients. This means we are able to offer our clients a ‘one stop shop’ supplying the many specialist skills required for rail infrastructure engineering.