Railway Depots Are Boring Places
If you thought the title to this post was correct, then read this article in Rail Engineer, which is entitled In case you missed it – Cutting-edge equipment for tomorrow’s depots.
It’s about an innovative company in Sheffield called Mechan, who make specialist mechanical handling equipment for railway depots.
They are not a large company, but their orders include.
- Two large train traversers for Hitachi’s new factory at Newton Aycliffe, that is building the Class 800 trains.
- A mllion pound order for Crossrail’s Old Oak Common Depot.
- A 130-tonne traverser for Bombardier’s Ilford Depot.
Their website also details orders for Alstom, Port of Felixstowe, MTR and Siemens.
A lot of people think heavy engineering is boring. It isn’t, it’s just that the scale is bigger, but the problems remain the same.
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