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Railcraft has been providing innovative solutions to engineering problems since the 1980's. Director Roger Burnley leads a team of highly skilled designers and engineers with specialist skills in locomotive systems - structure, traction, diesel-hydraulic, diesel-electric, air, brake, electrical - together with engineers specialising in mechanical design, materials, computer aided design, engineering (CAD/CAE) and dynamics, experimental stress analysis, fluid dynamics and human factors in engineering. The company has made a significant investment in the latest software and hardware in order to maintain an edge in the field of 3D mechanical design and modeling and utilises a continuous virtual prototyping system in order to reduce costs and minimise the time between concept and reality.

  
   
  Click on an image below to read more about some of our interesting projects.  
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DLR Maintenance Fleet Clip Drill Deadman's Circuit Control Box Class 20 Locomotive
       
Corus 'Trojan' Industrial Locomotive Locomotive Stress Analysis DLR Security Data Protection  
 
   
   
   
For those curious about the origins of the Railcraft logo, the shield represents strength, the dark blue colour : integrity and the sun : energy, and also that we are a Yorkshire company since the "Sunne in Splendour" is an ancient heraldic device of English Kings from the house of York. ("Now is the Winter of our discontent made glorious Summer by this son / sun of York" - Shakespear, Richard III) Railcraft Associates Ltd, Consulting Design Engineers