Project report / Container Terminal - Wels, Austria Subject to technical changes / 1999

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1 STRAIL Project report / Container Terminal - Wels, Austria Subject to technical changes / 1999 STRAIL level crossing systems & STRAILastic track damping systems Gummiwerk KRAIBURG Elastik GmbH / D Tittmoning Göllstraße 8 Phone +49(0)8683/701-0 Fax +49(0)8683/ info@strail.de

2 Project report Container Terminal Wels page 2/7 last update: # 1 / General The Wels Container Terminal was constructed between 1985 and 1993 to meet the steadily increasing demand for freight traffic handling capacity. Wels is ideally situated at the intersection of major rail and road traffic arteries (A25 motorway - Westbahn). It has now become an important hub of international freight traffic. Wels is not just a ro-ro terminal for eastern European truckers. It is primarily Austria s largest transshipment terminal for unaccompanied rail/road freight traffic. The number of goods vehicles entrained there rose from 22,000 in 1990 to 88,000 in This increase made it essential to enlarge the terminal and the decision to extend was taken by the Austrian Railways management in # 2 / Size of project One of the aims of the enlargement project was to separate the ro-ro traffic from the unaccompanied rail/road traffic. Another objective was to improve access to the rail network by constructing additional sidings and a centralised train control (CTC) switch tower. In the western section of the terminal facilities for arrival and departure of ro-ro goods vehicles are being built at tracks 202, 204, 206 and 208. The decked sections range from 65 to 172 metres in length and their total length at all four tracks is 480 metres.

3 Project report Container Terminal Wels page 3/7 last update: # 3 / Traffic Handling Capacity 1996/2010/2030

4 Project report Container Terminal Wels page 4/7 last update: # 4 / KRAIBURG `s contribution to the project The STRAIL decking panels installed in the first phase of the Wels Container Terminal project have given excellent service and this encouraged Austrian Railways to give us the order for the decking to be installed during enlargement of the terminal. Our improved STRAIL decking system and a kerbstone developed specially for Austria to retain the external panels were used in the enlargement project. The system s main advantages are the ease with which the panels can be installed and removed, their noise-damping properties, their durability and their recyclability. STRAIL is thus helping to save natural resources at a time of high public sensitivity to environmental problems. # 5 / Installation of the STRAIL panels Our products were installed by Austrian Railways own construction gangs between mid-november and mid-december Our service team was present in a consultant capacity. All the installation work was completed on schedule in an exceptionally harmonious atmosphere. # 6 / STRAIL-deckings

5 Project report Container Terminal Wels page 5/7 last update: STRAIL-deckings STRAIL-deckings

6 Project report Container Terminal Wels page 6/7 last update: # 7 / Installation Container Terminal Wels Track ready for decking - the filler blocks have been laid and the sleeper protectors nailed on. Section of rail track with filler blocks installed, right and left side the special 2.4 metres long Austria kerbstones. A partly decked stretch of track - the external STRAIL panels still have to be laid.

7 Project report Container Terminal Wels page 7/7 last update: Austria kerbstones, each 2.4 metres long biggest STRAIL Rail Track decking project in Europe: 1,720 m² of STRAIL installed at Austrian Railways Container Terminal in Wels, Austria (ÖBB - Austrian Railways)