Industries Served
Rail runs on standardisation and traceability. Depots, maintenance facilities and infrastructure contractors handle components that are heavy, awkward and expensive to replace, across sites that need to hold the same specification as each other.
Lowe engineers stillages, cages and certified lifting frames around the component and the handling method — built in Staffordshire, load-tested to your specification, with certified lifting points where units are craned.
How Lowe helps
Made to order
Tell us what you handle and how it moves — we'll scope a load-tested, UK-manufactured solution and quote it, usually the same working day.
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The cost in rail is rarely the storage itself — it is what happens when each site buys its own. Units that do not stack together, do not fit the same vehicle and cannot be swapped between depots turn a shared pool of equipment into a set of isolated ones.
Engineering one specification and repeating it removes that. The unit is sized around the component it carries and the vehicle it travels in, then built the same way every time — so a frame from one depot is interchangeable with the next, and replacements match what is already in service years later.
Where a unit is lifted rather than driven, the lifting arrangement is the part that has to be right. Lowe builds certified lifting frames with proof-tested lifting points, marked with their working load limit so the person attaching the chains can see what they are working to.
That documentation travels with the unit. For anyone working to LOLER, the paperwork is not an extra — it is the reason the equipment can be used at all.
Every unit is manufactured at our own works in Uttoxeter rather than bought in, which is what makes a repeat order genuinely repeatable and a modification possible at all.
Where a specification calls for it, units are load-tested and released with their own documentation, and UKCA certification is available on custom builds. If a standard applies to your contract, tell us which one and we will build and evidence to it.
Our capability
Send a drawing, a sample or a photograph of the part. Our engineers size the unit around what it carries and how it is handled, then build it in Staffordshire to a specification you sign off before a single length of steel is cut.
Load-tested · UK-manufactured · certified where required
Talk to an engineer →Why Lowe
Designed and manufactured around your components, handling equipment and floor layout — made to order or fully bespoke.
Engineered and load-tested for safe stacking, forklift handling and demanding industrial duty cycles.
UK-manufactured to recognised standards, with certification available on custom builds and repeatable weld and build quality.
Manufactured in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire — short lead times and a direct line to the people building your kit.
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