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Landquart: Protection system for timber loading station

Impact Protection - Landquart: Protection system for timber loading station 2018

A ten meter-high fence made of high-tensile steel mesh separates the wood loading area from the railway line

Impact Protection - Landquart: Protection system for timber loading station 2018

Thanks to simple and quick installation, there were hardly any restraints during the construction period

Impact Protection - Landquart: Protection system for timber loading station 2018

SBB's Intercity trains and the wood loading station are safely separated

Impact Protection - Landquart: Protection system for timber loading station 2018

The transparent fence, despite its height of 10 meters, appears considerably lighter than a wall

 

Year of installation

2018

Initial situation

At Landquart, Switzerland, the Rhaetian Railway (RhB) operates a wood loading station.

Parallel to this loading station runs one of the central north-south traffic axes of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). This SBB line had to be protected  from falling logs or small parts.

Description

Today, a fence prevents logs from falling onto the SBB line.

Geobrugg supplied and installed the complete system: the net, ropes, and all fastening components.

Our client, TOLDO AG, constructed the steel supports including the foundations.  Geobrugg then fastened the ropes and mounted the high-strength Geobrugg braid on these ropes with a mobile lifting platform.

A second layer with a conventional wire mesh fence prevents smaller pieces of wood from falling onto the SBB line.

Advantages of the solution

  •     compact design
  •     quickly installed
  •     high-tensile
  •     transparent

Technical details

  • Post spacing: 5 m
  • Ropes: 12 mm
  • Boundary rope: 8mm
  • System length: 105 m

Customer

RhB (Rhätische Bahn)

Contractor

TOLDO Strassen und Tiefbau AG

Protected object

Railway

Engineering

ewp AG Chur

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Your local contact

Ivo Naef
 

Ivo Naef

Sales Manager Safety Solutions

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Geobrugg AG,Aachstrasse 11,8590 Romanshorn / Switzerland Sales Manager Safety Solutions

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