The way to go

With its innovative products and system solutions for passenger transport, freight, and heavy-haul traffic, RAIL.ONE is one of the leading providers of railway infrastructure technology. On ballast, concrete, and asphalt – and in the deserts of Saudi Arabia, the Great Plains of the USA, and in Europe with its highly diverse topography – we have set new standards in operational safety, line availability, and life-cycle length by end-to-end further development of our track systems.

This all applies to complex solutions for special challenges and extreme requirements – as well as for classical ballasted track: for example, for heavy loads and high speeds, and for harsh climate conditions. We can only advise you – take a look for yourself ...

>> Railways Traffic

As a environmentally friendly medium of transport, railway systems – now as before – assure safety and future-oriented mobility: and not only in Germany, but throughout the world. With its systematic further development of ballastless track, as well as of concrete sleepers for ballasted track, RAIL.ONE is an internationally recognized partner for complex track technology.

The tunnel in Schlüchtern, Germany:
The tunnel in Schlüchtern, Germany:
The Schlüchtern Tunnel
The tunnel in Schlüchtern, Germany: RAIL.ONE Group won the contract for delivery of the ballastless track for the new tunnel in Schlüchtern as well as for restoration of the existing tunnel tubes at Sinntal-Sannerz, in Germany >> more
The tunnel in Schlüchtern, Germany: Installation of RAIL.ONE ballastless track in the tunnel in Schlüchtern, Germany, marks the fifth tunnel in a row that has been executed with the GETRAC® A3 RAIL.ONE system. Earlier GETRAC® projects in Germany were the Kehre Tunnel (2001), the Heiligenberg Tunnel (2001-2002), the Esslingerberg Tunnel (2004), and the Brandleite Tunnel (2005). For RAIL.ONE, this contract is a further milestone for official designation of the system as standard mode of construction for tunnel rehabilitation in the network of Deutsche Bahn AG.
The North-South Line Project in Saudi Arabia:
The North-South Line Project in Saudi Arabia:
The North-South Line Project in Saudi Arabia
The North-South Line Project in Saudi Arabia: For project sections CTW 100 to 300 for the North-South Line, the company will deliver around 850,000 main-track sleepers over the coming years, as well as more than 78,000 liner meters of turnout sleepers >> more
The North-South Line Project in Saudi Arabia: The North-South Line is one of the key projects of the Saudi government. Upon completion, it will connect the plentiful raw-material sources in the north with the Arabian Gulf. RAIL.ONE founded a joint venture with Office 15 of Chinese Railways Construction Corporation (CRCC) to execute this contract. Production of the main-track and turnout sleepers is taking place in the recently constructed RAIL.ONE plant in Hail, about 700 km to the north of Riyad. For RAIL.ONE Group, this contract for project sections CTW 100 to 300 represents entry into the large and growing market in Arabian countries – and a further important step in the globalization of the company.
Projects in Turkey:
Projects in Turkey:
Projects in Turkey
Projects in Turkey: For construction of a rail line in Turkey, RAIL.ONE Group will supply around 400,000 main-track sleepers. Turkish State Railways (TCDD) has additionally ordered an additional 45,000 sleepers for their AFYON project >> more
Projects in Turkey: The production of approx. 445,000 main-track sleepers will take place in the new plant in Polatlı, around 75 km to the west of Ankara, which is being operated together with the Turkish joint-venture partner ILGAZ. Already in 2004-2005, RAIL.ONE delivered more than 600,000 concrete sleepers for modernization of the first project section on the railway line from Ankara to Eskisehir. At that time, delivery of sleepers was still from the RAIL.ONE plants in Romania and Hungary.

>> Urban Traffic

Our needs for mobility have today become taken for granted. Especially in pulsing metropolises, residents expect a well-functioning urban-transit infrastructure. For underground systems, surface commuter lines, and tram networks, RAIL.ONE offers powerful systems that fulfil the strictest demands with respect to technology and ecology.

Rehabilitation of the Hampstead Heath tunnel in London:
Rehabilitation of the Hampstead Heath tunnel in London:
Rehabilitation of the Hampstead Heath tunnel in London
Rehabilitation of the Hampstead Heath tunnel in London: In order to upgrade the tunnel, approx. 1 km in length, between the London regional train stations Hampstead Heath and Frognal to enable their use by modern trains, the extremely constricted tunnel clearance space was expanded by installation of the RHEDA 2000® ballastless track system >> more
Rehabilitation of the Hampstead Heath tunnel in London: On behalf of an English engineering office, RAIL.ONE carried out the entire track planning for this project. Modernization of the old tunnel, built more than 100 years ago, was carried out with the RHEDA 2000® ballastless track system – a solution with which Network Rail had already gained good experience in earlier tunnel projects on the West Coast Main Line. The special challenge for the Hampstead Heath project was the extremely great traffic volume carried by the line, which remained in operation up to the last minute before beginning of construction.
The Edinburgh Tram Link:
The Edinburgh Tram Link:
The Edinburgh Tram Link
The Edinburgh Tram Link:  The Edinburgh Tram Link is currently the largest infrastructure project in Scotland. For the first project section, RAIL.ONE is delivering more than 16 km of RHEDA CITY track, as well as 3 km of track with vegetation covering >> more
The Edinburgh Tram Link: With its 430,000 population, Edinburgh is one of the most important transport nodes in Scotland. A new tram line, 19 km long, is being built there, to connect in the first project section the northern suburbs of Edinburg and the airport 13 km to the west of the city with the city centre. For this section, RAIL.ONE is delivering, on behalf of the Dutch company BAM Rail bv, more than 16 km of RHEDA CITY track, with various covering materials, as well as 3 km of tracks with vegetation covering. RAIL.ONE is furthermore responsible for planning the track systems within the design team of BAM Rail. A total of more than 25,000 of bi-block sleepers will be delivered for the ballasted-track sections, as well as around 18,000 shortened B 70 sleepers for connection of the tram depot to the tram line. Completion of the entire line is planned by spring of 2011.

>> Freight Transportation

As a result of high energy prices, and the increasing demand for raw materials, heavy-haul transport by railway will in future play a key role in intermodal competition.

New heavy-haul sleeper for the USA:
New heavy-haul sleeper for the USA:
New heavy-haul sleeper for the USA
New heavy-haul sleeper for the USA: For the North American rail network – for which the track must be designed for static loads up to 40 metric tonnes – RAIL.ONE developed and successfully tested a new prestressed-concrete sleeper. This concrete sleeper satisfies the strict requirements as set forth in the US AREMA specifications, as well as the stipulations of European standard EN 13230 >> more
New heavy-haul sleeper for the USA: Extensive tests conducted by Munich Technical University have revealed that the new RAIL.ONE sleeper for heavy-haul traffic satisfies all regulations: i.e., in static tests (conducted to determine the concrete cracking and breaking strengths), in dynamic rests (to reveal cracking behaviour during passage of trains), and in fatigue tests (which correspond to long-term behaviour of approx. 30 to 40 years). In September of 2007 all test sleepers were transported to Brady, Nebraska, a small community between Denver and Chicago. According to information from the private US railway company UP RR, the rail line passing through Brady carries the heaviest loads of any freight line in the world: the annual volume of transport on this route is between 225 and 250 million gross tons.