Pickie Fun Park gets a face lift
2nd February 2012
Pickie Fun Park at Bangor, Northern Ireland is geting a magor face lift. Cromar White are producing replacement track for the sation area and have developed a new track crossing gate system.
Sheffield SMEE upgrade raised track
14th June 2011
Sheffield SMEE has been working hard this winter replacing their raised track. SSMEE have used Cromar White 27mm steel rail, Cromar White plastic sleepers and Cromar White track fixings. The replacement track gives a smother ride and will give longer life to the train wheels.
Picture by courtesy of Pete Nash
Battery and settings Genius
7th March 2011
Cromar White Ltd have recently become the UK distributor for settingsGENIUS! and Battery Genius (details below) These are useful for all types of vehicles that have a 12v battery and a cigar lighter. These will retail as a bundle at £15. settings allows a battery to be removed from a car without losing all the car settings, clock, radio, alarm etc. BatteryGenius shows the state of a 12v battery. See Genius pages for more details.
November 2010
15th November 2010
CW are pleased to announce the first UK designed and built Road train. The first of which is in use inr the historic Welsh City of Caernarfon. More information on the train in Caernarfon is available at http://www.clacityclac.co.uk
Now the science bit!
The locomotive is3 tonnes width 1289mm length 3000mm height 2019mm turning circle is 4000mm all steel construction two person cab front and rear wipers front disc brakes oil immersed multi plate rear dice brakes transmission is fully automatic with three forward gears and one reverse full digital sound system full instrumentation
The locomotive is exempt MOT and is environmentally friendly.
Taxation class if used on public roads is general haulage
Nottingham University GRACE project
11th November 2009
Roof laboratory and test track
Cromar White Ltd won the prestigious contract to install a 'dog-bone' shaped seven and a quarter inch gauge railway on the roof of the new GRACE building, Nottingham University which has been designed to create a state of the art laboratory. It has a series of stable monuments which are supported through the whole of the building and into the foundations. These will provide high tolerance platforms for continuously operating GNSS receivers used for both earth movement research and to provide support to the RTK Network project. The roof will be surfaced with a multipath reducing surface and obstructions have been designed to be at a minimum.
A unique facility of the "roof lab" will be a stable track system which will allow experiments of a kinematic nature over a know trajectory. This will be a wireless controlled system with high precision repeatability.
For more information on the GRACE department, please visit http://www.grace.ac.uk/
Rother Valley Country Park
6th October 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsAQRU4F8EI&feature=player_embedded
On 15th August 2009 the Rother Valley Steam Railway(RVSR) opened to the public at the Rother Valley Country Park, Sheffield. This followed an intense four week installation from start to finish. The track is 7¼" gauge, 800 metres long with a loop at each end(70-75' radius). the track is made from Cromar White(CW) 4lb a yard, 27mm, steel rail and re-cycled plastic sleepers. CW won the contract to install and supply the railway, from marking out, to ground work, to track laying, to carriage supply to installing electrics, to building station platforms, to supplying locomotives and rolling stock. The locos will consist of one steam engine and one diesel engine. The rolling stock consists of seven CW sit astride carriages and one CW invalid coach and there are plans to add a wagon for transporting child buggies. The bogies are of a new design which all have vacuum braking. The engine shed consists of one 40' container and one 20' container joined together. There are three lines running into the shed. This has been a very ambitious project and much midnight oil has been burned and many miles done between CW HQ in Angelsey and Sheffield. The whole installation has been project managed by Tony Martin(Technical Director CW), as well as him being very much hands on. There are currently three sets of sprung points installed.