Gemco Rail - Rail Infrastructure and Locomotive Engineering and Maintenance

Gemco Rail is a leading manufacturer of rail products and provider of maintenance services to national rail operators. The company provides wheel-sets, bogies and in-field wagon maintenance, and manufactures new and refurbished wagons, bogie component parts, rail track maintenance equipment, and customised, remote-controlled ballast car discharge gates, as well as repair, maintenance and refurbishment services for locomotives.

Railway engineering specialists

Gemco Rail's engineering team has more than 60 years of proven railway engineering skills to produce effective, efficient, practical and ‘fit for purpose’ solutions for all of our engineering challenges.

Using the SolidWORKS 3D modelling and FEA package, Gemco Rail quickly creates and verifies designs to customers’ standards and requirements, incorporating planning, management and total control of projects. The best solution is found by open communication with customers, clientele and staff.

Some projects include stand-alone, one-off builds, field-proven track maintenance machines, through to production line wagon builds. Our qualified workshop staff manufactures the build within our four large railway workshops.

With two purpose-built on-site abrasive blasting and spray painting facilities, all manufactured equipment and machinery is painted on-site.

Rail infrastructure maintenance, modifications, retrofits and upgrades

Gemco Rail also provides a custom maintenance, modification, retrofit and upgrade facility for all types of railway wagons and rail-associated equipment.

Projects include custom bottom discharge doors, constant contact side bearer conversion, rail gauge conversion and general upgrade / overhaul of wagons.

The aim of the Gemco Rail engineering team is to provide the best solution for the problem through continual technical upgrade and optimisation without jeopardising our grass roots railway engineering skills.

Locomotive manufacture and maintenance services

Gemco has a wide range of expertise and operations specialising in the manufacture, repair, maintenance and refurbishment of heavy haulage locomotives across Australia.

Our people are passionate and committed to providing quality solutions that are tailored to our clients' needs. Gemco can provide you with a range of options to choose from, including a variety of modular locomotive components, engine comparisons, servicing options, full micro-processing and pricing ranges.

Rail freightage in Australia provides the bulk of heavy haulage transport across the country, and is the safest and most economical form of goods transportation. Protecting your locomotive assets to keep them running efficiently, free from breakdowns and accidents, is vital to the smooth operation of the country's heavy haulage industry.

Our goals for our clients include:

• Ensuring locomotives operate reliably
• Achieving fuel savings
• Lowering maintenance costs
• Reducing waste disposal
• Re-using current locomotive assets

Wagons, track maintenance equipment, and custom rail equipment

Gemco Rail can manufacture wagons and track maintenance equipment, and can custom-build other rail equipment to suit our clients' needs. Our workshops and staff across Australia provide specialist skills in the rail industry to cater for a wide range of equipment requirements.

Gemco Rail can quickly create and verify designs to customers’ standards and requirements, incorporating planning, management and total control of projects, using the SolidWORKS 3D modelling and FEA package.

Gemco Rail also provides a custom maintenance, modification, retrofit and upgrade facility for all types of railway wagons and rail-associated equipment. Projects include custom bottom discharge doors, constant contact side bearer conversion, derailment repair, rail gauge conversion and general upgrade / overhaul of wagons.

Railway bearing refurbishment

Rail Bearing Refurbishment Services (RBRS) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Gemco Rail. Although RBRS is a separate entity, it operates within the administrative business functions of Gemco Rail.

RBRS utilises equipment specifically manufactured to cater for the overhaul of railway-related bearings in its state-of-the-art and multiple customer-accredited refurbishment facility. We are also certified to AS/NZS ISO 9001:2000 Certificate Number QEC 23164 and are a Timken-certified repairer.

The RBRS workshop has been specially built to certify against dust and other airborne waste negatively impacting on the refurbishment of railway bearings. Services that are provided by RBRS include:

• All aspects of bearing maintenance
• Investigative reports for incident management
• Refurbishment of package unit bearings for 'C' class through to loco bearing class 'GG'
• All sizes of spherical bearings can be refurbished

Rail bearing inspectors

Bearings are overhauled by specially trained bearing inspectors to stringent customer and AAR specifications. Our processes include:

• Stripping bearings
• Wash tank immersion
• Bearing inspection report
• Refurbishing based on bearing inspection report and customer specifications

Talk to RBRS's highly skilled and experienced staff about how we can add value to your organisation in the field of railway bearing refurbishment.