Contact lines
Precision: Always hooked up
Never loosing its focus on the project at hand and its solution, Balfour Beatty Rail plans and assembles turnkey contact line systems. They fulfil their customers most demanding requirements.
Balfour Beatty Rail supplies standard contact line systems as well as tailor-made systems. Its applications range from city and local traffic to long-distance and high-speed traffic. Depending on the traffic system, local conditions and the requirements of customers, Balfour Beatty Rail builds the contact line systems as an overhead-line or current-rail system.
The customer is provided with tested, seasoned and reliable systems requiring little maintenance due to their standardised components. They comply with the EU standards for railway applications.
Mainline
Overhead Contact Line Systems
- up to 100 kph for main and secondary tracks, aluminium cantilevers, without stitch wire
- up to 160 kph for main tracks, aluminium cantilevers, with or without stitch wire
- up to 230 km/h for main tracks, aluminium cantilevers, with or without stitch wire
- up to 360 kph, approved for rail lines of the European high-speed network, aluminium cantilevers, with stitch wire
Light rail and tram systems
Overhead Contact Line Systems
- up to 60 kph for streetcars, plain overhead without carrier cable with tunnel solutions
- up to 100 kph for light rail, aluminium brackets, with tunnel solutions
- up to 160 kph for light rail, aluminium brackets, with tunnel solutions
Special Solutions for Overhead Contact Line Systems: Catenary Lifts
Field of application: level crossing, lift bridges, container terminals, depots
Without influence on the catenary's geometry the catenary is lifted upwards to either allow loading or unloading or passing of oversized vehicles.
Underground transit
- Up to 80 kph, third rail painted from below, made of aluminium with stainless steel surface
- Current rail carrier made of steel and insulating glass-fibre-reinforced plastic
Overhead conductor rail
- up to 25 kph, for maintenance workshops, profile made of aluminium with grooved cupper contact wire
- up to 140 kph, for tunnel equipment suspended on hinged or drop supports