Every year, an average of 500 turnouts need to be replaced in Austria—and currently up to 1,500 on the German market. The conventional method often involves transporting the individual turnout components to the assembly site, where they are then put together. However, this often takes place under difficult conditions. In

Modern railways are increasingly turning to intelligent infrastructure monitoring to understand asset condition in real time, link sensor data with ground truth and integrate insights into maintenance planning, writes Dino Velic, R&D Project Manager Intelligent Turnout at voestalpine Signaling Austria GmbH. Figure 1: High speed turnout with integrated point machine, ballast

With a steadily growing fleet of currently 45 turnout transport wagons, voestalpine Railway Systems operates the largest turnout transport fleet in Europe — making it the leading provider of logistics services for completely pre-assembled turnout systems. The combination of global turnout construction expertise, decades of know-how, and integrated logistics results in

More traffic on existing railway lines and ever shorter maintenance windows: Operators are facing growing challenges in ensuring safety, availability, and efficiency in the long term, while at the same time dealing with increasingly complex systems. The zentrak Object Controller Point from voestalpine Railway Systems is a certified tool that