RAIL.ONE
RAIL.ONE

Chronology

As one of the leading manufacturers of concrete sleepers in Europe , RAIL.ONE has been closely connected to the railway market for almost 100 years. Over the past decade, RAIL.ONE has employed intensified development activities to expand its portfolio of services, and to realize key innovations and system developments for the railways of the future. Today, the comprehensive spectrum of innovative track systems for mainline and urban rail traffic represents the basis of success for RAIL.ONE.

 

2008 

  • Netherlands
    • Signing of a cooperation agreement with BAM Rail bv for development and construction of advanced railway track systems for the Netherlands

2007

  • Ghana:
    • Contract with the KAMPAC Oil Group, of Dubai/United Arab Emirates, for production and delivery of 2 millionen concrete sleepers for a railway project in the Republic of Ghana  
  • Saudi Arabia:
    • Signing of a joint-venture agreement with Bureau 15 of the Chinese Railways Construction Corporation (CRCC)
    • Contract for delivery of 850,000 main-track sleepers, as well as 35,000 linear meters of turnout sleepers of the North-South Line
    • Construction of production plant in Hail for manufacture of concrete sleepers for axle loads of 32.5 tonnes 
  • South Korea:
    • Contract for the delivery of approx. 150,000 bi-block sleepers for the RHEDA 2000® ballastless track system, for the second section of the high-speed line from Seoul to Busan, known as Kyungbu-Line
    • Construction of a construction sleeper plant in Sangju in Gyeongsangbuk-do Province in the southern half of Korea
  • Founding of the Taiwanese subsidiary: RAIL.ONE Taiwan Ltd.
  • Founding of the Turkish joint-venture company: RAIL.ONE ILGAZ Demiryolu Sistemleri Üretim İthalat İhracat Limited Şirketi
  • Founding of the Chinese subsidiary: Beijing RAIL.ONE Pfleiderer track systems Technology Company Ltd.
  • Founding of the Korean subsidiary: RAIL.ONE Korea Ltd.

2006

  • The corporate name has changed to RAIL.ONE GmbH
  • A contract for know-how-transfer to China is signed

2005

  • The Madrid Metro: new construction of a test section, 190 m long, with the RHEDA MRT ballastless track system
  • Trial rail section from Třebovice to Rudoltice, in the Czech Republic: delivery of bi-block sleepers from the RHEDA 2000® ballastless track system, including supervision of construction work and granting of a licence agreement

2004

  • Contract for the delivery of 680,000 concrete sleepers for the first section of the line from Ankara to Istanbul, Turkey
  • New high-speed line Nuremberg-Ingolstadt-Munich: approx. 71.5 km in RHEDA 2000® and approx. 180.000 concrete sleepers on ballasted track
  • Berlin North-South Link: approx. 9 km of track, executed as RHEDA 2000®, with support on a spring-mass system
  • The Brandleite Tunnel: upgrading of the track system, with 6.3 km of track as GETRAC® A3 (wide concrete sleepers on an asphalt supporting layer)
  • Organization and start-up of the Second Competence Centre for the German High-Speed Initiative in Beijing, China
  • Together with the Patil Group of Industries, founding of a joint-venture company in India

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2003

  • Taiwan High Speed Rail:
    • Engineering services and design for construction of key sections of rail line
    • Production of more than 125,000 sleepers for main-track installation in Taiwan
    • Delivery of more than 65,000 linear metres of turnout sleepers
    • Quality and construction supervision
  • Extension and new construction of the rail line from Nuremberg, via Ingolstadt, to Munich:
    • RHEDA 2000® installed over 71.5 km of line
    • Delivery of 180,000 concrete sleepers for ballasted track
  • Contract for delivery of 20,000 linear metres of turnout sleepers, from the RHEDA MRT ballastless track system, for construction of the Circle Line (CCL) underground mass-transit system in Singapore
  • Contract for upgrading of the Prestbury and Hibel Road tunnels (part of the West Coast Main Line, in England), with installation of the RHEDA 2000® ballastless track system
  • Founding of the BahnCompetenceCentrum (BCC) in Brandenburg-Kirchmoeser, in Germany, for strengthening competitiveness of the steel-wheel / steel-rail system
  • Founding of the German High-Speed Initiative - with organization and start-up of the first Competence Centre, in Guangzhou, China
  • Launching of production for turnout sleepers in Brandenburg-Kirchmoeser, in Germany
  • Relocation of the Brasov, Romania, production plant to Buzau, Romania, and beginning of production of turnout sleepers

2002

  • Dutch high-speed line HSL ZUID:
    • 54 km on engineering structures
    • 13 km in tunnels
    • 13 km on earth subgrade
    • 11,500 linear metres of turnout sleepers
    • Project design, engineering, and quality management within the context of RHEDA 2000 vof
  • Contract for the delivery and installation of production-plant facilities for the manufacture of B70 sleepers in Athens, Greece (licence production)

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2001

  • First installation of the RHEDA 2000® ballastless track system, on the line from Erfurt-Halle to Leipzig, Germany
  • Commencement of production of sleepers for main tracks, in Brasov, Romania
  • Launching of production of turnout sleepers at the plant in Travipos, Spain
  • Relocation of the Frankfurt, Germany, production plant, with construction of a new plant for production of sleepers for main tracks, in Langen, Germany

1999

  • Approval of the ballastless track system RHEDA 2000®
  • Contract for the delivery of more than 180,000 special patented sleepers for the new rail line from Cologne, to the Rhine-Main (Frankfurt) complex

1998

  • Acquisition of concrete-sleeper activities from the company Wayss & Freytag AG, with takeover of the production plant for main-track sleepers in Frankfurt am Main, and of the turnout-sleeper plant in Langen, Germany

1994

  • Decision by Deutsche Bahn AG to employ the RHEDA-BERLIN ballastless track system on the most heavily frequented rail line in the world: the Berlin S-Bahn MRT network
  • Commencement of concrete sleeper production in the factory in Travipos, Spain

1993

  • Market introduction for ballastless track systems on asphalt - first rail line project, from Würzbach to Frankfurt am Main, Germany, at the Nantenbach Curve section
  • Acquisition of the concrete plant in Lábatlan, Hungary, as production facility for concrete sleepers for turnouts and main tracks

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1992

Start-up of production of concrete sleepers for turnouts and main tracks, in Coswig, near Dresden, Germany

1990

Acquisition of the concrete mast and pole plant in Coswig, near Dresden, Germany, with expansion of production capacities

1981

Acquisition of controlling interest in the company Katz-Werke AG, a factory in Gernsbach, Germany, for the production of concrete sleepers

1969

Launching of production of pre-stressed spun-concrete poles and masts

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1956

Construction of a plant for the manufacture of concrete poles and masts, followed by expansion of production facilities

1954

Commencement of production of pre-stressed concrete railway sleepers

1944

Relocation of company headquarters to Neumarkt, Germany, with production of sawn timber, wooden railway sleepers, and masts and poles

1919

Acquisition and expansion of a sawmill in Neumarkt (Oberpfalz), in Germany, with launching of protective impregnation of wooden railway sleepers, masts, and poles

1894

Founding of the Pfleiderer company by Gustav Adolf Pfleiderer, as a wood business and timber-rafting operation, in Heilbronn am Neckar, Germany

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