RSSB 2355 -T1119 Simulating Offset Loading of Container Wagons on Twisted Track
What the buyer wrote
In the last Ten years there have been seventeen GB mainline derailments due to combinations of track geometry faults with offset (uneven) loads and/ or wagon sensitivity to derailment. Seven of these derailments of container wagons have occurred on twisted track where offset loading of containers has been identified by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) as a significant contributory factor. For example, it is this interaction of twisted track and offset loading which played the major role in the derailments at Reading West Junction in 2012 and Camden Road West Junction in 2013 . Whilst no fatalities occurred in these incidents, in the case of Reading West Junction the contain…
Details
- What the buyer calls it
- RSSB 2355 -T1119 Simulating Offset Loading of Container Wagons on Twisted Track
- How they are buying
- Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
- Type
- services
- Work starts
- 6 Feb 2017
- Work ends
- 29 Dec 2017
Who the buyer named
Vikram Singh Gudra was the named contact on this notice.