 the winners of the annual modern railways golden spanner awards were announced at the fourth friday club meeting on friday 28th november 2014 the awards based on statistical data produced by atoc rewards excellence in rolling stock maintenance porterbrook picked up 5 of the 6 available gold awards as well as 2 silver and 1 bronze a total of 50% of the available awards the table below shows porterbrooks winning fleets these results underpin porterbrooks reputation of leading the industry on fleet performance and we would like to thank our partners for their contribution in achieving this success gold most reliable fleetex br dmu class 159 1 south west trains ex br emu class 455 south west trains new dmu class 170 cross country new emu class 458 1 south west trains pacer class 144 northern silver most improved ex br dmu class 153 london midland new dmu class 170 london midland bronze fastest incident recovery new dmu class 171 southern 