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SWAP BODIES FOR FLEXIBLE WORKING
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The Cartwright Group recently supplied Malcolm Logistics Services, part of The Malcolm Group, with 70 intermodal swap bodies, working to a bespoke design from fleet engineer Steve Sugden.
The design gives Malcolm the ability to carry a payload of 27t of gypsum product in each trailer. Each body is being used as part of the contract Malcolm has with British Gypsum Plasterboard to transfer gypsum products from services at Kirkby Thore, Cumbria, to Glasgow.
Empty swap bodies are taken by rail back into the Kirkby Thore works, filled with gypsum products then transferred by rail to Glasgow. At Glasgow the swap bodies are lifted on to skeletal road trailers for road distribution.
By creating a tapered design for the pioneering intermodal Swap Body 025, Cartwright has ensured it can utilise the maximum possible height for the rail loading gauge. This is classed as W6A (W7) gauge lines running between Kirkby Thore and Glasgow.
The base of the swap bodies is, according to Cartwright, slimmer than those used on the Conti-lent being designed and constructed to the maximum possible side aperture of 2,330mm operated with the IKA Megafret rail wagon.
Network Rail and UIC have approved this intermodal concept. Cartwright has also supplied 25 skeletal trailers to transport the swap bodies by road.
Sugden says this is its first purpose-built kit — and with the trains up and running and a guaranteed regular service in place, it is testimony that moving freight by rail is the way forward.
The Malcolm Group also has rail links at Daventry, Grangemouth, Linwood, Aberdeen and Mossend sew icing key customers to achieve an optimum balance of road and rail freight, taking the cost out of distribution while achieving environmental benefits.