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News Release from: Clyde Materials Handling
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 11 September 2002
MP checks up on novel sand handling
system
Rosie Winterton, MP for Doncaster Central visited Doncaster based Clyde Materials Handling at its Shaw Lane site recently to view the innovative train sand handling system, a railway safety product.
Rosie Winterton, MP for Doncaster Central visited Doncaster based Clyde Materials Handling at its Shaw Lane site recently to view the innovative train sand handling system, a railway safety product Clyde Materials Handling leads the world in the design and manufacture of pneumatic conveying systems for a wide range of products and materials
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 6 Nov 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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The sand filling system for trains and trams has been specially designed by Clyde Materials Handling to provide an extremely efficient way of loading sand to train sand boxes.
The system uses petrol pump style filler nozzles dispensing with the need for manual loading of the sand in buckets.
The sand can be loaded by non specialist staff into sand boxes ready to automatically dispense dry sand onto tracks in slippery and wet weather conditions ensuring improved traction.
The system has already been successfully installed at the Sheffield Supertram maintenance depot and Rotterdam Tram depot and more recently in now in use on the Nottingham Tram system.
Richard Sims, Joint Managing Director at Clyde Materials Handling said: "We have heard many times excuses such as 'leaves on the track' or 'wrong type of snow' causing havoc with timetables and inevitable delays and frustration for the general public.
We were able to demonstrate to Ms Winterton how Clyde's sand handling system is able to help overcome these problems in a simple, safe and efficient way".
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