New Dimensions 2011 - Rhomberg Bau

Supported by the comprehensive competence
of all track construction companies making up
Rhomberg Bahntechnik, Rhomberg-Kalebozan
sets new benchmarks for maintenance and
repair work in Turkey.
The success story goes on…
Rhomberg-Kalebozan strengthens its market position in Turkey
Flash butt welding
for the TURKISH
state railway (TCDD)
In future, the State Railway will
continue to place its contracts for
flash butt welding with Rhomberg-
Kalebozan. The contract involves flash
butt welding of 3,500 steel components,
including the respective grinding,
clamping and careful ultrasonic
testing. The work will be carried out on
the already upgraded Karalıköy-Sivas-
Tecer main line and will take about
four months. The equipment used for
this EUR 700,000 project (1.4 million
Turkish Lira) is a mobile AMS 60 rail
welding machine.
Repair of high-speed line
Ankara – EskiŞeHIR
In autumn 2010 after a two-months
summer break that included Ramadan,
the month of fasting and related festivities,
the team for machine maintenance
re-started work with fresh
enthusiasm: the 250 km/h high-speed
line between Ankara and Eskişehir
was surveyed and maintenance work
carried out. Since the line opened
eighteen months ago, Rhomberg has
been responsible for the maintenance
of this high-speed line and, with its
work, has set new standards in Turkey.
Initially, all maintenance work was carried
out by staff from Bahnbau Wels,
with support from several Australian
resurfacing professionals. Over this
period, enough Turkish workers have
been trained so that the Rhomberg-
Kalebozan team has been working
exclusively with Turkish members of
staff under the management of
Abdullah Gündogdu since the middle
of May.
Technical difficulties are overcome
through the team that is expertly
supported by Andreas Stoppel. He is
a specialist for the repair of railway
superstructure and is therefore a
welcome visitor with the State Railway
management. With his enormous
specialist knowledge and his straightforward
approach he is able to solve
problems quickly and efficiently.
Tamping new ballast from
the greek/BULGarian
border to Edirne
The line between Edirne and the
Greek/Bulgarian border consists of
125 kilometres of conventional track.
Rhomberg-Kalebozan was given the
contract for tamping the line to the
exact specification, after the superstructure
had already been renewed.
In order to optimally plan the construction
sequence and process, the
first step was to newly survey and
evaluate the entire line. This required
some persuasion of the responsible
people to adequately demonstrate the
merits of the preparatory work for the
overall benefit of the project, with the
final results confirming the Rhomberg
concept.
The team was able to set new standards
for tamping new track ballast.
As a consequence, new minimum
technical requirements for maintenance
and upgrade work are being defined in
cooperation with the TCDD.
Gökhan Ipek
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