Unipart Rail Limited

Rail infrastructure operators globally have begun moves towards smart intelligent network infrastructure built upon the placement of hundreds of thousands of various sensors/device types on and along tracks as required for predictive/preventative maintenance. Deployment is currently significantly hampered by affordability and maintenance liability of suit...

An innovative, universal handling solution, for both plain line and large switch and crossing panels, with an interchangeable power module (ICE engine or electric motor and batteries) to create a future proof design. The novel arrangement of the machines allows their use in confined areas such as viaducts, stations and small-bore tunnels making the system...

Project CODD-P seeks to deploy for the first time a COmmercial version of a Digital Displacement Pump and its electronic controller in place of a traditional hydraulic pump with a swashplate design. This revolutionary technology is highly efficient with minimal part load losses such that a significant saving in fuel consumption (and hence carbon emissions...

CloseRFIT is a first in-service trial of the technology developed as part of the CloseR project funded by RSSB and Innovate UK. The CloseR system allows operators to engage with each customer individually, enhancing and rewarding the customer’s travelling experience, whilst improving the efficiency of on-train operations. In-seat technology identifies ind...

The majority of electric trains are fitted with a pantograph that transmits power from overhead lines to the locomotive. The pantograph is in constant contact with the overhead lines. The guide horns are fitted with a carbon contact strip which is a sacrificial component that is a consumable. Damage to overhead lines due to worn pantograph carbon contact ...

Project Smart Oil Plug aims to provide real-time data analysis and reporting, to enable Train Operating Companies to move away from excessive precautionary gearbox maintenance regimes and instead schedule informed predictive/preventative gearbox maintenance, reducing costs and increasing the reliability of railway operations nationally and globally.

Customer experience is enhanced it two ways, either improving services or resolving problems well. Either case cannot be achieved without engaging customers in innovation. However, for each customer-facing organisation (CFO) the cost and risks of building the necessary IT innovation infrastructure, individually, are considerable barriers. Worse still, suc...

Awaiting Public Project Summary

To develop a new generation of self-powered track side sensors for the rail industry, using state of the art 4G wireless communications for monitoring remote locations.