VGF Frankfurt/Main Reversing loop

In addition to the track construction work on the line Waldfriedhof - Rheinlandstraße (Lots 1+2), HERING also realised the reversing loop project (Lot 3) for VGF in September and October 2017. The installation of a reversing loop with a radius of 22 meters is considered a special challenge and a central achievement of this project. In addition, for example, 165 m of grooved track were renewed and over 1,000 tons of frost protection material was installed.

Further details can be found on the construction site sign.

Construction panel

VGF reversing loop (Lot 3)

Client:

Stadtwerke Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt a.M. mbH

Completion period:

25/09/2017– 28/10/2017

Order volume:

Approx. € 570,000

Scope of services:

Renewal of four grooved rail switches EW-60R1-50-RSP
Renewal of 165 m of grooved rail
Installation of 1,050 t antifreeze material
Supply and installation of 165 m Rheda-City-D ballastless track system for track 60R1

Features:

Installation of a turning loop with a radius of 22 meters
Installation of a concrete base plate C30/37 in a thickness of 30 cm
270 m³ concrete
Poured in 290 m track and points bottom sections
Various civil engineering works
Several hundred meters of cable conduit systems with shafts and a new drainage system

HERING reference projects:

Galluswarte and Frankfurt main railway station

Conversion at Galluswarte and the north side of the main railway station.

Niederrad junction in Frankfurt am Main

Preparatory measure for the second construction stage at the Niederrad junction in Frankfurt am Main.

Intersection structure in Neu-Isenburg

Dismantling of individual track sections and installation and conversion of auxiliary bridges.

ICE works in Cologne

One CO2-neutral ICE maintenance works, double crossing switches, 16,500 metres of different types of sleepers, elevated tracks

VGF Ffm Waldfriedhof – Rheinlandstraße

One conservation area, renewal of more than two kilometres of track, more than 3,000 concrete sleepers, 300 rails

Track construction at Würzburg main station

Two lines, three tracks and 11 switches

Gladbeck station

Renewal of 3,280 metres of track, two switches and deep drainage complications

Gießen station

Thirteen switches, two tracks, complex construction work conditions and technical material-conveying silo equipment

Bad Homburg station

Reconstruction of 750 metres of track, two switches, ballast replacement, track-side paths and one locomotive

VGF Frankfurt / main turning loop

Realisation of a turning loop with a 22-metre radius

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HERING sustainability

At HERING, we see ourselves as pioneers in the field of sustainability. As early as 1996, we were the first construction company in Germany to obtain EMAS certification. Every three years, we publish an environmental statement documenting our goals and how we have achieved them. Actually, for the first time, we published a sustainability report with an integrated environmental statement in accordance with EMAS - a logical next step in view of our ecological and social responsibility. It documents how we deal internally and externally with the issues that are essential to our future viability.

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