Exhibition preview
New Vossloh road-rail vehicle for flash-butt welding.
Vossloh’s Flexis grinding machine in action.
deliver the first six transport units to Germany fitted with a semi-automatic clamping system. The Rail Train can also be used to transport the old rails away from the track laying site. Finally, Robel will unveil two new battery-powered tools - a wrench and a core- hole driller - as part of a new range of modular designs. Robel is keen to offer customers a choice of using machines powered by either petrol or diesel engines or fitted with a battery which has the advantage of reducing noise and eliminating fumes. The wrench has three power levels and can do 400 cycles per charge depending on the size of the screw and how much torque is required. The
battery core hole driller is much stronger than the petrol version and twice as fast and can drill between 30 and 40 holes per charge.
Several rail grinding trains will be on show in Münster. Speno will present a driving and control wagon and a self- contained grinding wagon from its latest generation train the RR 64 M. This features 64 electrically-powered grinding units designed to remove large amounts of metal and rectify the rail accurately. It has a real-time longitudinal-profile measuring system which can record long, medium, short and very short waves separately. There is also a real-time transverse profile measuring system together with an HC grinding scanner
which can report the depth and density of rolling contact fatigue. Speno will also display a grinding trolley for reprofiling switches. Loram, United States, will exhibit the first of two 60-stone RGI series grinding machines for a European customer at the IAF, while at the same demonstrating its range of track maintenance products through a series of videos. Vossloh will display its HSG-City, a compact version of its HSG high-speed grinding train designed for use on urban railways. This will be joined outside by the company’s new Flexis range of mobile machines for lateral and longitudinal machining of rails and switches to remove a wide range of defects, along with its new road-rail vehicle for flash-butt welding. Vossloh Cogifer says it will
unveil what it claims to be the world’s first complete monitoring system designed to prevent cable theft. With the rising price of copper and other metals, cable theft has become a major problem for railways. In Germany last year, 17,000 trains were delayed for a total of 4000 hours due to cable theft which cost about ƒ17m to resolve. At the heart of Vossloh Cogifer’s Automatic Break Transmission in Electrical Wire (BTW) system is a sensor which can remotely locate in real-time the exact position and length of any severed cable, while at the same time alerting the police. Clearly there will be a lot of innovative equipment on show to interest even the most experienced track engineer during the three days of the IAF, which runs from May 28 to 30. IRJ
Speno’s RR 64 M modular rail grinding train will be on show.
Loram’s new 60-stone grinding machine. 50
IRJ May 2013
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