Rail is the most tightly gated sector Thurrock Engineering Supplies works in. On most infrastructure and renewals work a quotation is not looked at until the supplier is qualified on the Railway Industry Supplier Qualification Scheme. TES is a RISQS-registered supplier, ID 10079, first registered in January 2024, and the registration is verifiable on the RISQS register rather than taken on trust.
From West Thurrock in Essex, TES supplies hi-vis, workwear, PPE, hand and power tools, fixings and site consumables to rail projects and rail engineering stores across the UK — on one account, one delivery and one invoice.
Rail buying tends to split between the personal protective equipment a workforce has to be issued with and the consumables a site or a stores function gets through. TES covers both.
Orange hi-vis for work on or near the line is specified differently from general construction hi-vis — against the Railway Group Standard RIS-3279-TOM rather than EN ISO 20471 alone. Tell us which one the specification calls for and we will quote against it, branded in our own facility if the garments need your logo on them.
Safety helmets, Bollé and Uvex eye protection, hearing defenders and disposable and reusable respiratory protection from 3M. Specified as a set rather than line by line, so the combination actually works worn together.
Cut, impact and thermal gloves rated to EN 388, and Rockfall and Roots safety footwear rated to EN ISO 20345. Both are consumables in rail rather than one-off issues, and both are worth holding on a call-off rather than a purchase order.
Bahco, Knipex, Facom and Stanley hand tools; DeWalt, Makita, Milwaukee and Bosch power tools and accessories. Stocked for rail engineering stores and possession work, where a missing consumable costs a shift rather than an hour.
Standard fixings and fasteners from stock, and non-standard or made-to-drawing items through TES bespoke components — one-offs through to repeat production runs, sourced and managed through a single point of contact.
Abrasives, tapes, sealants, marking and general site consumables, plus welfare and hygiene products including SC Johnson professional ranges. The unglamorous half of the order that stops work when it is missing.
Client names are not the evidence TES publishes — accreditation is. Each of these is third-party issued and independently checkable, which is what a pre-qualification questionnaire is actually asking for.
AUVA is a UKAS-accredited certification body, and it is worth saying so explicitly: RISQS, Constructionline and Tier 1 pre-qualification all distinguish UKAS-accredited certification from certification that is not. The full accreditation list, with certificate numbers, is on the about page.
Named schemes, not named clients. The dates below are each project’s own construction timeline — they are not the period over which TES was supplying it.
Station work is the most demanding rail supply there is — confined sites, night and weekend possessions, and a live railway a few metres away throughout. All three projects appear again on the tunnelling page, for a different reason.
Rail work is scheduled around possessions and access windows, so the supply problem is usually availability at a particular hour rather than price on a particular line. Four things TES runs address that directly:
Trade customers order through the TES B2B portal, which carries the full catalogue and account pricing.
Very little rail infrastructure work is only rail infrastructure work. Underground running tunnels, station boxes and shafts bring a different PPE profile — wet, abrasive and hard on gloves and footwear — and possessions on urban routes usually involve road closures and traffic management alongside them. TES supplies all three from the same account:
Send us the PPE schedule or the consumables list and we will come back on availability, the standards each item is certified to, and delivery — not a generic catalogue.
