Work train

A work train is a train that is used in the construction and maintenance of railway systems.

Function

A construction train belongs to the data maintained for internal use web service vehicles. These features allow the transport of material for construction or rehabilitation of railway lines and from the site, or serve as a working tool on a railway construction site.

Types

In the area of ​​surface works there are the trains as UM or high-speed track, with those on an existing line, the superstructure can be maintained, including the exchange of the tracks. Further, there are work trains which - without exchange of the tracks - the ballast is only cleaned and recycled, the improved Schienenbettung serves. A rail crane comes, as it can only be driven with a protective car, always as a work train and not a single vehicle to the site. For overhead line work come in building usually work trains used, while in repair and maintenance and tower blocks are used.

Construction train for overhead line work

750mm - Train Repair

750mm - Train Repair

Worth knowing

Bauzug also refers to a military small unit, a division of a company, with the Pioneers and also has the meaning of Eisenbahnbaubrigade, so in both cases, a person squads.