Unique Engineering - Engineering, Fabrication and Material Processing for the Rail Industry

Unique Engineering is an exclusive Australian manufacturer of Schunk Pantographs and a specialist in quality engineering, fabrication, and material processing for the rail industry.

We offer a complete solution with the resources, skill and experience to handle all your enquiries on sheet metal, boiler making, fabrication and fitting and turning across a broad range of industries.

Railway engineering and consulting

Unique Engineering's management and staff have more than 22 years' experience in providing railway engineering and consulting to a broad range of large and small customers.

As specialists in close tolerance production runs and prototype work, we cater for a broad range of engineering fabrication and material processing. With our skills and experience, we can optimise design, in-house manufacturing and assembly of a wide range of products from single, small solutions to large production items.

Unique also has access to a network of specialists to maximise the quality and cost-competitiveness of projects.

Catenary, wheel and track monitoring systems

Unique Engineering is the exclusive Australian distributor of the renowned Dr Wehrhahn laser measuring of rolling stock wheels, tracks and overhead catenary wires.

Possible applications of Dr Wehrhahn's monitoring system include:

• Measurement of rail waviness
• Wheel profile measurement
• Application in wheel-set measurement stations
• Track maintenance
• High-speed track width measurement
• Scanning of the wheel head at high speed
• Scanning of the rail cross-section
• Scanning of the rail longitudinal section
• Ripple measurement
• Measuring of wheel position on track in passing
• Other applications in the R&D area
• RAILMONITOR - a world first in mobile rail measurement
• Mobile measuring system for wheel profile measuring
• Catenary measurement

Carbon monitoring systems for railways

Unique Engineering provides automatic pantograph carbon monitoring systems. We are the exclusive distributor in Australia for the Sensys Automatic Pantograph Monitoring of Carbon Strips (APMS).

Critical to the safe running of tram and train systems, the Sensys APMS constantly monitors carbon collectors and analyses the carbon fibre surface, warning of damage to current collectors and thus eliminating risks leading to power cable failure.

Benefits of APMS include:

• Alarm for a damaged carbon strip within 3min
• Alarm for a worn-down carbon strip (optional)
• Almost weather-independent detection
• Service and maintenance of the detectors without disturbing ongoing traffic
• Storage of the original image of a damaged carbon strip in the detector
• Controlling and upgrading of the detector via the GSM-R phone modem or Ethernet
• Protection against vandalism by compact and robust design
• Reliable and cost-effective detector function

Train and tram roller blind system

We distribute roller blind systems for rail and tramway application exclusively on behalf of Texat décor Engineering Switzerland. The STOROrail roller blind system offers a number of advantages, which include:

• Continuous positioning
• No wearing parts, trouble free use
• Easy service and maintenance
• Fabric under permanent tension
• Absolute stability (stays in position) even with high vibration
• Can be retro-fitted
• UV and blockout fabrics, available in range of quality and colours
• Flame resistant
• Three year warranty

Railway engineering and sheet metal fabrication

Unique's precision engineering and sheet metal fabrication services include stainless steel, mild steel, high-tensile steel and all non-ferrous materials such as copper and aluminum. We can customise existing metal parts to create multi-component parts or develop value-added solutions for clients.

Unique employ precision machinery operated by skilled staff and specialise in high-quality, accurate and on-time CNC machining and steel cutting.

Unique specialises in a range of different welding techniques for both ferrous and non-ferrous materials, including steel, aluminum and stainless steel. From basic arc welding to MIG (gas metal arc welding) semiautomatic high deposition welding or TIG (gas tungsten arc welding) for high-quality and high-precision welding.

Unique's engineering team can also specialise in custom solutions to accommodate your welding engineering problems.