Mechan Delivers Fleet of Jacks to Capital

Rail depot equipment specialist, Mechan, is giving a busy London maintenance depot the lifting power to tackle a new heavy overhaul programme.

The Sheffield-based manufacturers have supplied 20 of their flagship lifting jacks to GTR’s Selhurst Depot in Croydon, enabling five-car trains to be overhauled.

Mechan’s jacks in action at the Selhurst Depot in London.

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Mechan has worked with Govia Thameslink for almost 20 years and the new jacks join a raft of other equipment that has been supplied during this time, including a bogie press, bogie rotator and wheelset drop.

The 15-tonne mobile jacks are designed to operate as a set of eight, 12 or 20, giving Selhurst maximum flexibility when servicing different vehicle types. Mechan worked with the Fleet Infrastructure Team and depot to install a combination of floor and wall-mounted socket boxes along its allocated lifting road, enabling trains to be split either side of the existing wheel drop for maintenance.

This set of jacks is one of the first to be supplied with the latest version of Mechan’s control system, which has been developed to include input/output (I/O) technology, reducing the size of cables and 4G connectivity, allowing for remote diagnostics.

Mechan will continue to visit Selhurst to maintain the new jacks, alongside the wheel drop and bogie rotator it supplied previously.

For further information about Mechan’s jacks, or its portfolio of rail depot maintenance products, telephone (0114) 257 0563, visit www.mechan.co.uk or follow the firm on Twitter, @mechanuk.

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