ENGINEERING company Ricardo has completed the installation of a system to monitor the condition of pantographs on electric trains at several locations of the rail network in Scotland, including the East and West Coast Main Lines, along with the North Clyde, Stranraer and Edinburgh to Glasgow routes.
PanMon is said to operate with an average accuracy of over 99.5%. Its cameras can perform 50,000 scans of pantographs each month. Ricardo says that, collectively, this means images of every single pantograph on the routes where the system is in operation will be taken at least once a day.