Rail Shortlisted In National Rail Awards 2016
National Rail Awards announce the shortlist for this year awards ceremony with AMCO Rail being shortlisted for the Innovation of the Year Award 2016.
The ceremony to be held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London on Thursday 22nd September recognises achievements across the rail industry. Innovation of the Year is aimed at highlighting innovation whether that involves radical changes in engineering or technology or to the business process or customer service.
The innovation has to be a new way or technology of doing a job which will change the railways, no size restrictions but it has to be an imaginative solution which brings about a better way of undertaking work.
Rail tunnels across the UK network suffer from a steam age legacy of significant coatings of soot on the tunnel brickwork. This soot coating makes it extremely difficult for engineers to undertake complaint structural examinations and can hide brickwork defects. Previous soot removal solutions proved to be ineffective, inefficient and environmentally unacceptable. Network Rail East Midlands had four tunnels with high levels of soot accumulations preventing tunnel examinations and conventional soot removal methods were deemed inappropriate.
Network Rail approached AMCO Rail to come up with a design and develop a solution. AMCO Rail inconjuction with Chris Scott of Foulstone Forge accepted the challenge and developed the Soot Scabbler within the extremely tight 5 month timescale given.
This machine has proved to be most effective both in terms of reducing timescales, cost and environmental benefits.
