Pickersgill-Kaye - Rail Vehicle Door Locks

Pickersgill-Kaye, a member of the Pickersgill-Kaye Group, is a manufacturer and supplier of door locks for rail vehicles.

Locking products for railway applications

• Carriage door slam locks, striking plates and handles
• Cab door locks
• Internal door locks for toilet, cab/saloon, parcel areas, inter car connecting doors, emergency cupboards and budget locks
• Passenger emergency systems - passenger emergency alarm handles (electric and pneumatic), emergency talkback units, remote public address units, internal/external door releases (electric and pneumatic)
• Water control diaphragm and foot valves

Company profile

Pickersgill-Kaye was formed in 1855 by Joseph Kaye as a small engineering concern involved primarily with the manufacture of oil cans. During the latter part of the 19th century the company continued to diversify and eventually specialised in the design and manufacture of Kaye’s patent door locks supplying the architectural and railway industries throughout the United Kingdom.

These days our primary business focus is the UK railway industry with our biggest customer being Railpart, the UK’s railway vehicle component supplier. Our product range has continued to grow and, as well as door locks, we now design and manufacture:

• Complete door systems (e.g. the interior door for the Strasbourg Tram)
• Electro-mechanical assemblies for audio communication systems (e.g. emergency talkback units and passenger alarm handles)
• Electro-mechanical/pneumatic assemblies for train braking systems (e.g. passenger communication units)
• LED indicator lights

Other capabilities of the Pickersgill group of companies include: metal finishing and painting services, non-ferrous foundry (lost wax and shell moulding), repair and overhaul facilities, engineering and problem solving and reliability and performance improvements.

Recent product development

Pickersgill Kaye’s most recent products for the railway industry include:

• LED cant rail light
• LED indicators
• Secondary locking system
• Strasbourg Tram cab door equipment
• Passenger emergency alarm/talkback units

Product development

Pickersgill-Kaye’s product development benefits from all the latest design tools including CAD, solid modelling and casting solidification simulation. We also specialise in reliability studies covering fault trees, failure mode analysis, failure mode effect criticality analysis and maintainability.

The company also offers project management, project engineering and simultaneous engineering services.

Foundry

• Processes - lost wax investment casting. shell moulding and fettling / finishing
• Materials - copper-based alloys (AB1, HTB1, DCB3), aluminium alloys (LM4, LM5, LM6, LM25, LM31) and zinc alloys (ZA5)
• Capability - Casting sizes from 50g up to 12kg, wax sizes up to 150mm x 200mm x 150mm, shell mould sizes up to 350mm x 550mm x 150mm

Quality

Pickersgill-Kaye operates an ISO 9002 approved quality management system offering confirmation of reliability and quality culture-operator responsibility.

Customers

The company’s extensive list of railway customers includes Alstom Transport, Axion Technologies, BFG, Bode, Bombardier Transportation, Compin, Dalian/Ocean Eagle, EMD, EVAC, Freightliner, Hitachi Rail, Hyundai-Rotem, Iarnród Éireann, Integral Design, Jukova, Margon, Polmor, RIPCO, Romay, Siemens Transportation, Supersteel, TZV, Unipart Rail, Wabtec, and Wissmann.

Pickersgill-Kaye also works with various railway technical consultants and train operating companies.