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Cartwright Takes The Load Off WH Malcolms
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The Cartwright Group has supplied WH Malcolm with 70 specially-designed intermodal swap bodies.
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Working to a brief from WH Malcolm, Cartwright devised a special tapered swap body on a unique slim base for use on the railways.
The design gives Malcolm’s the ability to carry a design payload of 27,000kg of gypsum in each trailer. Each body is being used as part of the contract Malcolm’s has with British Plasterboard to transfer gypsum from a mine at Kirkby Thore, Cumbria, up to Glasgow.
Empty swap bodies are taken by rail into the Kirkby Thore mine, filled with gypsum and then taken by rail at Glasgow. At Glasgow, these swap bodies are then lifted onto skeletal road trailers for road distribution.
By creating a tapered design for the pioneering intermodal Swap Body C25, Cartwright has ensured that they can utilise the maximum possible height for rail tunnels on W6A (W7) gauge lines running between Kirkby Thore and Glasgow.
The base of the swap bodies is slimmer than anything produced by Cartwright’s Continental rivals. It has also been designed and constructed to the maximum side aperture possible of 2330mm operated with the IKA Megafret rail wagon.
Cartwright spent almost a year devising, designing and testing the intermodal trailer, which has been given formal approval by Network Rail and UIC It has also supplied 25 skeletal trailers to transport them by road.
The design gives Malcolm’s the ability to carry a design payload of 27,000kg of gypsum in each trailer. Each body is being used as part of the contract Malcolm’s has with British Plasterboard to transfer gypsum from a mine at Kirkby Thore, Cumbria, up to Glasgow.
Empty swap bodies are taken by rail into the Kirkby Thore mine, filled with gypsum and then taken by rail at Glasgow. At Glasgow, these swap bodies are then lifted onto skeletal road trailers for road distribution.
By creating a tapered design for the pioneering intermodal Swap Body C25, Cartwright has ensured that they can utilise the maximum possible height for rail tunnels on W6A (W7) gauge lines running between Kirkby Thore and Glasgow.
The base of the swap bodies is slimmer than anything produced by Cartwright’s Continental rivals. It has also been designed and constructed to the maximum side aperture possible of 2330mm operated with the IKA Megafret rail wagon.
Cartwright spent almost a year devising, designing and testing the intermodal trailer, which has been given formal approval by Network Rail and UIC It has also supplied 25 skeletal trailers to transport them by road.
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