A. Rawie - Track Safety Systems

A. Rawie GmbH & Co. KG based in Osnabrück has been supplying its equipment to the railway industry at home and abroad since 1882. In 1902, after an accident at Frankfurt Main Station, Rawie started developing a mechanical energy-absorbing device to prevent overrunning trains from climbing over the end of the track and ending in the concourse areas. From 1905, Rawie has concentrated on the production and supply of energy absorbing buffer stops and bumping posts.

The designs have developed from a simple sand drag type buffer stop to high tech-units capable of arresting vehicles up to v = 65km/h at m = 250t and v = 15km/h at 5,000t mass. Assuming of course that in these cases enough track length is available.

DS 800 01

In the 1950s, Rawie was invited by the then Federal German Railway to assist in establishing a mandatory standard for track closures. This is now known as the "DS 800 01".

Since then Rawie has often been invited to assist with the planning of track closures both in stations and yards, as well as sensitive areas such as tunnels, etc.

Further railway related products consist of:

• Loading Ramps with or without friction buffer stops
• Wheel holding devices for use as a static brake to hold wagons or cars quite still to enable special operations to be carried out, i.e. top loading wheel turning, inspections, etc
• Kinematic envelope and loading gauges
• Engineering and planning for stations

Other products are car park barrier and ticketing systems plus related products.

CONTROLLED AND SAFE

Our Friction Element Buffer Stops are an indispensable safety equipment feature to counteract human or technical failure. They protect and safeguard passengers, rolling stock and buildings.

CUSTOMISED CONSTRUCTIONS

We design our products individually for special applications and vehicles, which have to be arrested. The size of the buffer stop is dependent upon the kinetic energy to be absorbed.