About Quattro Group

Quattro Plant is the largest infrastructure specialist across Rail, Road and Construction in the UK. We operate across four trading divisions including Rail Plant Hire, Mobile Crane Hire, Environmental Road Sweepers and Transportation Vehicles. 

We own a professional Occupational Training Academy (QOTA), headquartered from a purpose built training centre in Lichfield, Staffordshire and four other locations giving national coverage. QOTA provides a comprehensive range of courses specially designed for every sector of our industry, including but not limited to: Plant Handling, Health & Safety and On-site Mentoring.

Quattro Europe BV is one of Europe's leading Rail Specialist Sub-Contractors, based out of our depot in Rotterdam, Holland. We offer a Rail Suction Excavator Service, supplying the very popular "MadVax" Rail Suction Excavation machines across the Continent, Scandinavia, the UK and Republic of Ireland.

The AB2K division supplements the Quattro Group fleet, with an experienced regional team located in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Inverness. AB2K incorporates four primary trading divisions, including the core construction plant and equipment, a significant mobile crane hire division (including test weights and equipment moving), rail, and Northern – Phoenix Weights and Phoenix Marine.

Quattro Group RRV White Papers

The Quattro Group works extensively throughout the rail industry and closely with partners in other fields, and understand many issues facing the vehicle market.

Based on this sector knowledge, Quattro Group has published two white papers focussing on issues impacting the RRV market.

These are available to download here:

Quattro Group RRV White Paper 2016

Quattro Group RRV White Paper 2017

2024 sees Quattro Group celebrating 35 years of success. The organisation has flourished from the early days of small-time sweeper hire, and has grown into one of the UK’s leading cross-sector plant hire organisations. 

Quattro Group was established in 1989 by John Murphy, who still leads the organisation today, his passion for innovation and expansion continuing to drive the organisation forwards. His first purchase was a sweeper, run out of an East London depot, leading to a firm foothold in the environmental plant hire sector. (environmental)

With a sweeper fleet cleaning up, Quattro Group saw an opportunity to grow, and the company took a first foray into the rail industry in 1992, undertaking work with LUL Ruislip. This blossoming relationship eventually saw the team provide initial infrastructure and track plant to LUL in 1997. 

In 2001, initial investments were made into the organisations first road rail vehicle, and it only took two short years for the Quattro Group to become one of the rail industry’s go-to plant suppliers, providing equipment to both LUL and Network Rail (rail). By 2005, Quattro Group’s first tracked machines were purchased to work with the then First Engineering, now Babcock Rail. 

In order to keep up with rapid demand, Quattro Group acquired BCL in 2008, opening eight new depots across the UK and seeing the organisation boosted to the second largest RRV supplier in the UK, and Network Rail’s largest maintenance supplier. Further acquisition of Kent Sweepers and Map Sweepers followed in 2009 and 2012, seeing the depot network (depots) swell to eleven nationwide. 

More recently, Quattro Group expanded operations in Scotland, with the purchase of well-known Glasgow-based form AB2000 (Trading under AB2K), including the acquisition of all trading divisions of the company including Ellon Plant Hire Limited, Phoenix Weights and Phoenix Marine. This purchase added a significant amount of assets to the Quattro Group fleet, including excavators, and mobile cranes.  

With undeniable success in the UK, in September 2018 Quattro Group took the first step towards expanding the operation into Europe, with the purchase of Vroom Bros (Rail), a suction excavation service provider based in Dordrecht, in the Netherlands. Quattro B.V. (Quattro B.V website), now based near Rotterdam, oversees European operations has seen the hugely popular ‘Mad Vax’ rail suction system excavator move to Quattro Group in the UK.