A historical collection of railway memorabilia at the Didcot Railway Centre is being protected with the help of Kentec fire control panels.
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The museum holds Great Western Railway steam engines, coaches, wagons, engine sheds and memorabilia as well as a recreation of Brunel’s broad gauge railway.
The panels are at the heart of a new fire safety system that has been designed and installed by Kingwood Safety Systems.
A spokesman said: “As well as its science, learning and railways training areas housed in two railway coaches, the centre has five carriages specifically for accommodating centre workers, each requiring round-the-clock automatic fire detection as a distinctly independent zone.”
With the purpose of allowing any of the carriages to be safely decoupled and relocated, a linked conventional twin wire fire alarm system has been installed with a Kentec four zone twin wire Sigma CP conventional fire alarm control panel in the 10 berth main carriage that connects to the other four carriages via separate zone connections.
The system includes conventional smoke and heat detectors from the Hochiki CDX range and a series of weatherproof connectors on the outside of the carriages.