Railway Impact Test Facility at the Health and Safety Laboratory
TESTING AND TRIALLING FACILITIES
Health and Safety Laboratory
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Capability Statement
Our facility can be used for crashworthiness testing of railway components such as fuel tanks, buffers, energy absorbers, obstacle deflectors, carriages etc, and static tensile and compressive (crush) testing of large components
Capability – Systems
Rolling stock, rolling stock components, permanent way equipment
Capability – Testing
Impact testing, high strain rate testing, drop testing, impact and fire testing combined. Static tensile and compressive (crush) testing
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