Railway
Holden’s CVE Limited offers a variety of structures to suit all requirements.
Holden’s CVE Limited is renowned for its innovative design ideas and a design team committed to staying at the forefront of the rail industry. This expert team, coupled with access to Holden’s CVE Limited manufacturing facility allows entire projects to be managed from one site. The added bonus of an experienced internal fabrication and PTS trained installation team ensure that Holden’s CVE Limited is a ‘one-stop-shop’ for any rail related requirement.
We have a highly experienced team of fitters, welders and fabricators, including PTS/ICI accredited staff, slingers-banks men and IPAF accredited, MEWP, PASMA, Confined space operatives, Coded welders, CSCS, SSSTS.
Due to the critical nature of the products we manufacture, we are accredited to BS EN-1090-2 : 2008 + A1 2011, which allows us to build structures currently up to and including Execution class 3.

Our range of services include:
- Bridge Building
- Bridge Repairs
- Electrification Support
- Gantries, cantilevers, platforms extensions
- Access for all bridges, pedestrian footbridges & cable bridges, Over bridges
- Structure and bridge repairs, on-site steel repairs and more
- Structural metalwork, under frames and body end cubicles
- GRP Fabrication’s
- Station and signalling refurbishment
- Woodwork, including roof refurbishment
- Staircase renovation and rebuild
- Minor Civil works
- Parapet works including extensions
- Ladders
- Fencing and Gates
- Surveys
- Fabrication Drawings
Holden’s CVE Limited has a dedicated PTS Skilled rail repair team which carries out a number of on-site repair operations, including:
- Structure and Bridge repairs
- Station and Canopy repair/refurbishments
- Signalling
- Access steps
- Parapet works
- Hand-railing
- Crash Barriers
- Ballast retention systems
- On-site steel repairs
- Mechanical prep
- Rivet Busting
- Steelwork and GRP Installation
Holden’s CVE Limited is a leading force in providing innovative design, fabrication and installation services to the rail industry for products including bridges, signal structures & gantries, rolling stock metalwork, electrical enclosures and CCTV products.
In addition, Holden’s CVE Limited has a dedicated steelwork repair team, which also extends to woodwork, GRP, Minor Civils. This has proved a popular service with many of our customers, of whom we carry out many re-active works.
To operate so competently, Holden’s CVE Limited keeps as much work in-house as possible, and employs a dedicated design team, expert fabrication and PTS trained installation team, eliminating the need for external contractors.
Holden’s CVE Limited has specialist facilities at its disposal enabling an impressive in-house capacity which includes heavy and light fabrication, machining, forming and coded welding.
The combination of these expert employees and on-site specialist facilities enables Holden’s CVE Limited to provide a design to installation service carried out at one site at a consistently high standard, with reliable lead times and at competitive prices.
Holden’s CVE Limited success in the industry has led to contracts with the likes of The Murphy Group, Alan Griffiths, Grahams Construction, Wescott Coatings, Neary Rail to name but a few. Many of these contract’s have been high profile schemes as part of Network Rail’s portfolio.
We have in house craneage facilities of up to 30 tonnes, allowing us to offer an unrivaled rail repair service, whilst we have heavy plant including crawler crane’s, iron fairy cranes for on-site remedial and installation works.
Holden’s CVE Limited success in the rail industry over the past few years has led to an increased demand of work for many large, ongoing contracts across England and Wales.
Our team of designers and engineers are able to manufacture even the most complex bespoke bridges including foot and vehicle bridges. We also support the Access for All scheme, installing new footbridges with lowered hand rails, ramps and easy accessible lifts at train stations across the country.
