RMC Set Up Special Depot for West Coast Mainline
26 September 2003 14:56
RMC have proved that service and flexibility can be as important as product quality, especially when it comes to a project of national importance. RMC Rail Products went the extra mile to help the Network Rail, National Logistics Unit ensure that the West Coast Mainline Blockade progresses smoothly.
The 17-week blockade to upgrade sections of the West Coast Mainline this summer is using a total of 100,000 new concrete sleepers, which are being supplied by RMC and other manufacturers. The high volume required, combined with a rapid turnaround, presented the National Logistics Unit with a considerable problem.
Sufficient rail paths simply could not be found to transport the volumes required from RMC Rail Products’ Factory at Washwood Heath, near Birmingham to the section of West Coast Mainline between Colwich and Cheadle Hulme.
RMC Rail Products provided the solution, in setting up a remote loading facility for the NLU at the old Shelton Steelworks site at Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent. RMC installed a high capacity gantry crane at the site and also took responsibility for taking delivery of sleepers into the depot and stacking them in readiness for despatch.
The total of 100,000 sleepers were loaded from the depot in only 7 weeks, between the 1st June and 21st July. All the sleepers were loaded onto rail wagons for use on the High Output Track Renewals Train. Additionally, RMC will be unloading old sleepers uplifted from the track and sorting them into those that can be reused and those to be sent for crushing.
RMC Rail Products manufacture a complete range of concrete sleepers, turnouts, cable troughing, platform systems and other ancillary products. A full colour catalogue is available on request.
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