Bogie stacking frames provide heavy duty storage
Mechan has received an order to provide 66 bogie stacking frames that will be used to kit out a new storage facility for Alstom Traincare.
The stacking frames provide secure storage for various bogies, including Alstom’s class 390s, the electric Pendolinos serving the West Coast mainline at the facility. Known as Longsight.
This new order follows a request for a pair of Mechan’s eight-tonne bogie frame rotators and a small knuckle jib crane, required to facilitate the class 334 ScotRail bogie overhaul activity. These were installed in the new Longsight bogie overhaul facility, to give safe and ergonomic access to bogies requiring maintenance and overhaul.
Lee Pitts, Mechan’s sales engineer, said: “Longsight probably has more Mechan equipment than any other depot, including the largest set of synchronised jacks in the UK. The chain of 44 was installed in 2012, following the introduction of 11-car Pendolinos and is still the longest we have ever produced.
Mechan enjoys a 15-year relationship with the Longsight Traincare Centre and equipment supplied during this time has included powered bogie turntables, jib cranes, coupler presses and bogie stacking frames. All products are covered by a number of preventative and reactive maintenance contracts.
