Dresden, Germany: customized quality with RHEDA CITY

RAILONE has been supplying concrete sleepers to Dresden's municipal transport authority (DVB) since 1996. Two years later it began a collaboration whose positive effects are still being felt today: in close cooperation with DVB, it developed a 100% customized rail system that is perfectly coordinated with the transport authority's overall conditions and requirements.

82 Kilometer of RHEDA CITY for Dresden’s urban transit routes
82 Kilometer of RHEDA CITY for Dresden’s urban transit routes

 

Project details:

  • The project took account of rail type, elastic rail support, rail deflection, system structure, height of track concrete layer plate and covering
  • The DVB version of the RHEDA CITY ballastless track system now provides the superstructure of the Dresden tramway, with discrete elastic supports for the rails
  • The combination of elastic supports and the soft Ri 53 rail provided substantial benefits in terms of vibration and structure-borne noise
  • The first segment was installed on June 16, 1998, with 60 meters of double track on a section of Reicker Strasse, which served as a pilot project. The positive experience with this segment led to an equally successful second pilot project
  • Now, the Dresden-type superstructure is installed as standard solution with covered, grooved rail tracks. The entire rail system now has a length of about 82 km.