 porterbrook continued its successful track record at the modern railways golden spanner awards this year taking home four gold awards and four silver awards as a result of these latest wins porterbrook now has a total of 64 golden spanners in the years since they commenced the annual spanners event celebrates improvements in train maintenance practices and reliability this year porterbrooks winning fleets are golden spanners ex br emu south western railway class 455 ex br dmu south western railway class 159 0 first gen new dmu govia thameslink railway class 171 first gen new emu govia thameslink railway class 387 1 silver spanners ex br emu west midlands trains class 323 ex br dmu east midlands railway class 158 first gen new dmu east midlands railway class 170 first gen new emu c2c class 357 