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Railway tracks require continuous maintenance including timber sleeper replacement. For over 100 years new railway sleepers have been unloaded manually from flat top wagons. The Techniplan mechanised system not only unloads sleepers from wagons but reduces manpower requirement and costs as well as the incidence of accidents and injuries. At the freight yard, sleepers are loaded into specially designed container sized magazines, each holding up to 1000 sleepers. The magazines are mounted onto standard wagons. The train then travels to the section of track requiring repair and the sleeper unloader is driven from wagon to wagon on the slowly moving train, distributing sleepers as the train travels.
The sleeper unloader has an air conditioned, ergonomically designed operator's cabin. The operator has a good view of all phases of the operation and is able to distribute sleepers accurately to either side of the track by use of a simple two way hand controller. This machine is an ideal example of prototype design, development and construction. Techniplan have taken a basic concept and developed it to an efficient, reliable, modern machine. All design and manufacture was carried out in Brisbane, Australia to strict Quality Assurance procedures.

Capacity
500 sleepers/hour. cont.
1800 sleepers/hour peak
To see footage of the Techniplan Sleeper Unloader in action, click on the link below




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Techniplan - Mechanical and Structural Engineers
Suite 1, 3rd Floor, 49 Sherwood Rd, Toowong, Queensland, Australia 4066
Ph: +617 3859 6800 Fax +617 3859 6899
Last Update 20 August 2007 by Jay Lu