.For many years, the cable-driven
suspended monorail was the primary
personnel haulage system in mines
worldwide. Over 500 KSP monorail
transport units were delivered to the
mines. They operate in Poland,
Romania, Russia, Spain, Ukraine and
Colombia, as well as previously
working in Bulgaria. The
aforementioned monorails were
delivered as complete transport
systems, including rail route, drive
winch, pulling rope tensioning stations,
sets of rope pulleys and cabins or
benches for transporting people, as well
as braking cars, protecting the haulage
sets. FAMUR’s range still includes the
monorails, although their market share
has systematically dropped in favour of
more versatile diesel-powered
monorails.
In addition to the monorails,
rope‑driven coolie cars have been
manufactured since 1993. The first
coolie cars – the KS 650/900/63/100
– were offered with rope force of 63 kN
or 100 kN, depending on the drive
applied. Since 1996, the SKS‑100/900NL
coolie car has been offered. Rope‑driven
floor locomotives work in Poland,
Vietnam and Bosnia‑Herzegovina. In
addition to personnel transport, they
also enable haulage of materials with
weight exceeding 30 t.
Based on experience gained over the
years in the production of rope-driven
suspended monorail systems, since
1996 the offer has been extended by
diesel‑powered monorail systems,
which now constitute the basis for the
man and material haulage systems
offered by FAMUR.
Personnel cabins
Regardless of drive type, the primary
equipment for personnel haulage by
suspended monorails are cabins. Several
or dozens of cabins are combined into
one set pulled e.g. by a diesel
locomotive. The number of cabins can
be adapted to the transportation needs.
The most popular are the eight-person
cabins, but cabins for transport of four,
six, ten, sixteen or even twenty people
are also offered. The PIOMAKO series
of cabins are FAMUR’s primary offering
here (Figure 3).
In addition to the basic variants of
cabins for personnel haulage, special
versions are available: e.g. the
PIOMAKO-4/MP-T cabin, designed to
transport four people, tools and
materials, weighing up to 300 kg; the
PIOMAKO-8/R cabin, which can be
adopted from a standard cabin in a few
minutes to transport a stretcher; or the
PIOMAKO-1/4S cabin, which is a
typical sanitary cabin.
Since 2013, the offer has also been
extended by the FTC cabin series, which
is characterised by a reinforced
structure and ensures greater comfort
for the travelling personnel.
The number of cabins in the set
results mainly from the user’s needs
and requirements, but it also depends
on the conditions the transport is
carried in. The length of the cabin sets
may exceed 50 m and such a long unit
may not enter all galleries, thus the
haulage of personnel is limited only to
indicated stop stations. The weight of
the whole train can reach up to 20 t,
which, on a road with an inclination of
25,˚ requires a pulling force of about
100 kN. Practically, the maximum
number of cabins in the set is about 12
units, which enables the transportation
of about 100 people at the same time at
a maximum speed of about 2 m/sec.
Figure 4. Famur Monorail Standard (FMS) diesel locomotive operating with a set of
man cabins.
Figure 3. Set of PIOMA KO man cabins at the ZG Sobieski mine.
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