Technology developed by Sheffield-based Zonegreen has been chosen from a worldwide field of suppliers to protect workers at Australia’s newest rail depot.

The safety specialists have joined forces with antipodean partner, Andrew Engineering, to install protective equipment at the new Mindyarra Maintenance Centre in Dubbo, New South Wales.

Zonegreen’s DPPS control unit installed at the Minyarra Maintenance Centre in Dubbo, Australia.

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Three tracks at the entrance to the A$2.8 billion purpose-built facility, have been fitted with Zonegreen’s road end panels (REPs), allowing personnel to prevent train movements on the road in which they are working via the firm’s datakeys. They are programmed with various authorisation levels to give supervisors greater control of vehicles coming in and out of the shed. Once a member of staff has logged onto a road, it is blocked by derailers until they log off again.

Zonegreen has also supplied derailer control panels that will allow personnel to operate the Crowder derailers already installed on site and its Depot Manager software, to provide a graphical overview of the protection system and a permanent log of activity for complete traceability.

Andrew Engineering has worked closely with both Zonegreen’s engineers and main contractor, CPB Constructors, to install the equipment as part of the final stage of the depot’s development. It is set to open later this year and will be run by UGL who will maintain the new 29-strong Region Rail fleet there (117 carriages) for at least the next 15 years.

Christian Fletcher, Zonegreen’s head of engineering, said:

We have worked with Andrew Engineering for more than a decade on a number of key Australian depots and it has been a pleasure to combine our expertise once again on the Mindyarra project. The firm’s continued commitment to us demonstrates its faith in our ability to deliver the very best modular technology to automate safety procedures in rail facilities, eliminating the margin for human error.

This article was originally published by Zonegreen.

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