Method for renewing rails of a railway track with new long rails, and associated work train
AssigneeMatisa Materiel Industriel S.A.
InventorsMarco PILLER, Jacques PILET, Marc-Antoine SAVOYAT, Milan STUPAR, Alain MUNDT
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method for renewing old rails of a railway track in which, during a first phase, new long rails are unloaded along the railway track from a set of transport wagons of a work train travelling in a first direction of travel and, during a second phase, the work train travels in a second direction of travel opposite the first direction of travel, the new long rails being placed on then fastened to a fixed structure of the railway track during the second phase; and a work train designed to implement the method for renewing old rails.
Claims15
A method for renewing old rails of a railway track, the method comprising:
- a first phase comprising unloading new long rails along the railway track from a transport wagon of a work train travelling in a first direction of travel;
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- a second phase comprising placing the new long rails on a fixed structure of the railway track and fastening the new long rails to the fixed structure, wherein during the second phase the work train travels in a second direction of travel opposite the first direction of travel.
A work train configured to renew old rails, the work train comprising at least one transport wagon designed to ensure the transport of new long rails to be transported on a works zone, and at least one work wagon, the work train being designed for unloading the new long rails along a railway track from the transport wagon, while moving in a first direction of travel, the work train comprising a work station for fastening new long rails located in a zone downstream of a placement zone of said new long rails on a fixed structure of the railway track with respect to a second direction of travel opposite the first direction of travel, such that the work train is configured to place and fasten the new long rails on the fixed structure of the railway track when the work train travels in the second direction of travel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.