Turnouts - Transit Systems

voestalpine Railway Sytems Nortrak has the experience to design and manufacture special trackwork for Light Rapid Transit (LRT) and streetcar-type operations in accordance with international standards, AREMA or specific customer requirements.

This application includes turnouts, diamond crossings and complex layouts such as Grand Unions using grooved rail or tee rail sections and in all required gauges. voestalpine Nortrak's "Meter Design" family of turnouts directly addresses requirements for standard European turnout geometries having a radius of 20, 25, 50, 75, 100 and 150 metres. This general design concept development by Nortrak is also compatible with turnout geometries with 100, 150, 190, and 200 foot radii.

Turnout designs include switches with AREMA-style tongue and mates, double tongues and European-style double flexive tongues and SGM, RBM or WBM (Welded Boltless Manganese) frogs. Frogs may be tread or flangebearing. Guarding varies from standard, single or double guarding. Nortrak also manufactures leveling beams for setting the trackwork before embedding it.

Nortrak can provide wheel/rail interface analyses to confirm trackwork designs that will perform optimally with the wide variation in vehicle wheel profiles, truck configurations, track gauge and flangeway widths.

Various turnout designs available in AREMA or European-style
Standard Designs to minimize lead times
Available in various rail weights
Leveling beams
Low maintenance designs
Buy American compliant, if necessary.
Wheel/Rail interface analyses
Large customer base