Select your region eltherm Railway Heating Systems 1 2 3 4 5 The company eltherm worldwide Engineering/R&D Trace heat applications Products Enquiries eltherm designer eltherm Railway Heating Systems Point heating system EL-Point Rail heating system EL-Rail Building construction News Contact eltherm Channel eltherm Railway Heating Systems The past winters have shown: For a proper and secure railway transportation and a reliable point switching, frost protection and therefore heating plays a more and more important role. The eltherm GmbH took the challenge to find the best solution for each frost problem within the railway transportation area. No matter if its rail heating, point heating or any other heating challenge in the field of railway transportation, the eltherm engineers have developed the most suitable solution. In areas with frequent and long frost periods, any surface exposed to open air is likely to be covered by snow and / or ice. For example with the metrosystems of Lausanne and Marseille, ice or snow covered track running surfaces reducing the friction between the rubber wheels and the track and thus restricting control over the train. Moreover, ice covered third rails are compromising the reliability of train detection systems – a major safety issue. Manually recovering frozen or snow covered points can present a severe danger to the track maintenance personnel involved. For trouble free train operation during winter conditions, rail and point heating is recommended to ensure the track surface remains free of ice and snow and keeps the points moving. Point Heating System EL-Point El-Point is a new, innovative point heating system, developed by eltherm engineers. It is very efficient in comparision to conventional point heating systems. Rail Heating System EL-Rail eltherm has developed the perfect system for ensuring safe and smooth rail traffic even when there is snow and ice. The specially developed EL-Rail heating cable and its assembly system offer efficient and economical heating. eltherm Railway Heating Systems Brochure Railway Heating Sophisticated controls are recommended in order to conserve as much energy as possible: The control and monitoring concept starts with placing one or more cubicles at the remote site, each having an intelligent controller, responsible for driving the local heating elements. The heating control is based upon actual measurements of weather parameters via one or more weather stations. The weather station(s) measure temperature, wind speed and detect rain or snow. It is possible to connect multiple weather stations or rail sensors on a complete system. The cubicles do more than just trigger heating. They also monitor the complete system and detect errors – if any. Although our control cubicles are designed to runautonomously with a minimum of service and maintenance, it is sometimes necessary or just convenient to be able to dial the remote site for status updates or to upgrade software. For this reason, we prefer to deliver master cubicles with a built-in modem or GSM modem. Server based control system The central server offers several benefits: Central Modem pool. All alarms are sent to one place. All alarms are stored in the same database. Alarms can be rerouted into E-mails, SMS messages via server. All software is stored in one place, which means easy maintenance, upgrades and back-up routines. Customised user rights management. (click to enlarge) Phone: +44 1635 255280 Quicksearch eltherm® Channel on YouTube Here you will find easy and intuitively explained tutorials to our products. Learn from the eltherm® experts! Visit the eltherm-Channel News Energy saving point heating system Safety in winter conditions with innovative and energy saving point heating system To... more eltherm® specialized in electrical heat tracing of cryogenic storage tanks bases The importance of natural gas has gained an ever increasing role in recent years as a major... more innovations in heat tracing Home Sitemap Imprint AGB Search eltherm UK Ltd · 1 Woolton Hill Business Centre, Trade St, Newbury Berkshire, RG20 9UJ · Phone: +44 1635 255280, Fax: +44 1635 253571 · E-Mail: sales@eltherm.uk.com · © Copyright 2015