Rails are rolled at Bruckhausen since 1894. Today an ultra modern production plant for rolling rails is located here. The blooms are heated in a walking beam furnace and then de-scaled. In the section rolling mill the blocks are roughed down to a size suitable for the finishing mill, a four stand tandem reversing mill. Two ultra modern quick-changing devices allow production of rails in lengths of up to 120m. One of the two stands from the 20ies is used to roll grooved rails by means of a traverse rolling technique. Finally the rails are straightened and undergo quality control.

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walking beam furnace	roughing stand	rolling mill	narrow gauge locomotives

I would like to express my gratitude to TSTG Schienen Technik GmbH for permission to take photographs. http://www.tstg.de/eng/c_home.cfm