Recommendations for strategic rail maintenance in Europe: the application of anti-headcheck profiles and cyclic grinding

摘要

In Europe, rail maintenance is about to change, as new recommendations, entailing the application of anti-headcheck profiles and cyclic grinding, which result from the European research project INNOTRACK, are about to be implemented. This article summarises the work undertaken by the WP 4.5 working group of the INNOTRACK project. In this respect, it first looks at the current rail maintenance practices adopted by a number of European rail infrastructure managers and then addresses the proposed recommendations.