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March 19, 2026 | Track

Cleaning up rail grinding

Traditional rail grinding can be messy and require large volumes of water. Maurice Verheijen, CEO of RailTechnology, explains to Mark Simmons how his company developed a new type of grinding machine that is particularly suited to track maintenance in confined spaces such as tunnels.

September 16, 2022 | Infrastructure

DB awards Vossloh contract for rail grinding on 12,000km of track

Vossloh will deploy its high-speed grinding technology on core network.

May 26, 2021 | Track

Atmo brings rail grinding to tight urban tracks

One of the practical achievements stemming from Europe’s Shift2Rail research project is a new trailer vehicle designed to overcome the challenges faced in grinding tram and light rail tracks in densely-populated urban areas. David Briginshaw reports on the development of the new grinder.

February 17, 2021 | Infrastructure

Automatic Track Machine Oscillator track maintenance unit unveiled

The Plasser & Theurer machine was developed through Shift2Rail.

March 12, 2020 | Infrastructure

Tampere Tramway takes delivery of Vossloh grinder

TAMPERE Tramway, which is preparing to commission a 15km light rail line due to open in 2021, has taken delivery of an HSG-city rail grinder from Vossloh.

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