CZECH REPUBLIC: Skanska took delivery of the latest design of Desec Tracklayer TL70 Turnout Replacement Machine during October, to support its ambitions to become a major European trackwork contractor.
The machine has light cranes at both ends which can be used to lift sleepers and other materials, and can also lift trolleys from the track. Winches are provided to pull track panels on trolleys.
FINLAND: Desec has supplied contractor VR Track with a Tracklayer TL70VR turnout laying machine. Designed to offer a higher performance than the three similar machines which Desec has supplied to VR Track since 1993, the radio-controlled machine can handle 36 m turnout panels weighing 36 tonnes. It moves on ...
UKRAINIAN Railways took delivery of two Desec TL 70UZ switch and crossing laying machines at the end of 2007. They have been supplied under UZ’s second contract with the Finnish manufacturer, which followed an international tender backed by the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development. The Tracklayers will be ...
DENMARK: Siemens Mobility has been awarded a €270m contract to equip the 170 km S-bane network in København for GoA4 unattended operations. In 2017, the government decided in principle that the standalone suburban network electrified at 1·5 kV DC should transition to unattended driverless operation at ...
