AN Anglo-French consortium building a key section of the channel tunnel rail link has chosen Toyota Hilux pick-ups for use by surveyors, engineers and other site staff.

Morgan-Vinci has ordered 49 vehicles to be supplied over the next 12 months, in a deal worth £500,000, to be used on the site of a nine-mile raised rail section over Essex marshland between Dagenham and Thurrock.

The vehicles are being bought outright in a solus deal with Toyota Fleet and dealership McCarthy Maidstone.