Jumpers and Looms

Rolling stock jumpers

Jumpers are used to connect power or communications and signal circuits between carriages.

There are heavy duty inter-car power jumpers, communications cable assemblies and shore supplies jumpers. Hybrid jumpers include a combination of power and communications arrangements.

Jumpers are used in harsh environments including water, dust, saline conditions and acid washes.

 

Solutions for new trains and refurbishment 

Australian Rail Technology specialises in the design of one-off solutions for new trains and the refurbishing of old jumpers for existing carriages. We have the engineering capabilities to design from ‘scratch’ or manufacture to ‘build-to-print’.

Our key component suppliers are Schaltbau, Harting, Huber+Suhner and Weiland

 

Standard and custom products

Our in-house design, assembly and testing to customers requirements can accommodate:

• Wide range of voltages to 3kV DC
• Customer specifications and lengths
• Power and control circuit connections
• Ingress protection to IP65
• Custom pin out
• Heavy duty insulation (Radox)
• IP rated connectors
• Halogen free multi-core cable
• In-house testing such as Hi-pot and Megger

 

Examples of installations

 

XPT – CountryLink service introduced in 1982
ART manufactured all communications jumpers for whole rail fleet and recently replaced all jumpers due to the ongoing refurbishment.

 

XPLORER – CountryLink service since 1993
ART manufactured all communications jumpers for whole fleet and currently ART carries out refurbishment of old or broken jumpers.

 

COMENG train – suburban train in Melbourne, Victoria; in service since 1981.
ART manufactured inter-car jumpers for A and B carriages and currently does refurbishment only of old and broken jumpers.

 

Locos
ART supplied jumper leads for Cv40-9i and C43aci locomotive series.