Amsterdam-Antwerp, Netherlands/Belgium: RHEDA 2000® deals with widely varying line characteristics

HSL Zuid is the Dutch portion of the high-speed line linking Amsterdam to Antwerp. On the Dutch side, an 88-kilometer route was built between 2002 and 2006, which was designed by a Dutch-German joint venture.

Engineering expertise for the high-speed line HSL Zuid (Netherlands)
RHEDA 2000® on the high-speed line HSL Zuid (Netherlands)
Turnout sleepers and switches on the high-speed line HSL Zuid (Netherlands)

Project details:

  • RAILONE contributed valuable engineering expertise to implement the track planning and design the installation technology
  • The route crosses different substructures, which necessitated a special construction arrangement to achieve the best possible arrangement using the RHEDA 2000® ballastless track system
  • The line has an operating speed of 300 km/h
  • The journey from Amsterdam to Antwerp now takes only 74 minutes
  • RAILONE supplied 280,000 RHEDA 2000® bi-block sleepers for about 88 kilometers of track on the Dutch part of the line