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Foundation Construction Train

New and special civil-engineering technology for railway construction

Highest track availability and short shut-down times, challenging geographies and confined spaces demand know-how, experience and high-performance as well as approved special civil-engineering technology for railway construction. 

The global market leader in railway cranes, Kirow Ardelt, together with RTG Rammtechnik (a specialist in vibration, piling, and pressing works from the BAUER Maschinen Group), has developed the high-performance track foundation train for HERING and the rail market. With its special rigging procedures, tool logistics, high foundation performance, quality, and speed, this rail-mounted carrier adapts special foundation engineering methods to railway applications. It ensures the safe, cost-effective, and project-specific implementation of your requirements.

Track foundations with equipment by HERING

  • Vibration-free drilling of holes with diameters of up to 1350 mm
  • MR 105 V (SilentVibro) vibrator for the high-frequency vibrating of sheet-piling profiles of lengths of up to 15 metres
  • HRS 5 hydraulic hammer for pile driving lengths of up to 12,20 metres
  • MPU 660 sheet-piling press or MPZ for pressing sheet pilings, Z-profiles, U-profiles and light profiles of up to 15 metres in length
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Foundation Construction Train: The Revolution!

FIELDS OF APPLICATION – WITHOUT CONSTRUCTION ROAD

  • Realisation of bored piles using the Kelly drilling method for overhead line masts, signal brackets, noise barriers, etc.
  • Vibrating / pressing of sheet piling for securing excavations and stabilising railway embankments as well as installing girders for Berlin shoring, etc.
  • Driving in of concrete piling and casing pipes using the HRS5 hydraulic hammer
  • Installation of vibro-replacement stone columns for ground improvements in or near tracks (VIPAC method)
     

PERSPECTIVELY:

  • Production of bored piles using the rigid-cast-in-place method
  • Boring of cased and overlapping piles for bridge foundations and overlapping bored pile walls (front-of-wall method)
  • Realisation of single columns / diaphragm walls using the cutter-soil-mixing (CSM) and CSM DH methods as ground-improvement measures
  • Down-the-hole (DTH) hammer for drilling in rock

 

Foundation Construction Train - details:

  • Rail-mounted carrier equipment
  • Leader for use with special civil-engineering tools (vibrator, sheet-piling press, hydraulic hammer, kelly drilling equipment, etc.)
  • Comprehensive system consisting of a carrier unit, flat-bed carriage for storing the leader and additional flat-bed carriage for transporting and setting up attachments
  • Extends up to 9,50 metres from the track axis
  • Use in superelevations of up to 160 mm
  • Hydraulic rams for support distances of up to four metres from the track axis
  • 360° swivelling around the upper carriage axis
  • Operation that keeps the opposite track free: maximum protrusion of upper carriage from the track axis is 1.55 metres
  • High foundation-laying performances, quality and speed

Heavy duty machinery and Foundation Construction Train: News

Four Bored Piles for a Pedestrian overpass in Haan-Gruiten

End of July 2026 – HERING Group’s Foundation Construction Train was deployed in Haan-Gruiten. The task: constructing four bored piles for a new pedestrian overpass– directly from the track.

Specialist deep foundation drilling in Haan-Gruiten

Challenge: Bored Piles in the Platform Area

The particular challenge was the location of the drilling points: The piles had to be constructed in the area of the central platform. Using conventional technology, the work would have been difficult to access. Parts of the platforms would have had to be dismantled first to reach the drilling points.
 

Solution: Foundation Work Directly from the Track

This is where the Foundation Construction Train demonstrated its strengths: The foundation work could be carried out directly from the track. This allowed the four bored piles to be constructed precisely without the need to create additional access routes via the platforms.

The operation in Haan-Gruiten thus demonstrates the capabilities of the Foundation Construction Train for special foundation works in hard-to-access areas of railway infrastructure.

Find our video on YouTube: Rail Foundation Train in Action: 4 Bored Piles Directly from the Track!

Specialist deep foundation drilling in Haan-Gruiten

Exhibitions / Events

Four Bored Piles for a Pedestrian overpass in Haan-Gruiten

End of July 2026 – HERING Group’s Foundation Construction Train was deployed in Haan-Gruiten. The task: constructing four bored piles for a new pedestrian overpass– directly from the track.

Specialist deep foundation drilling in Haan-Gruiten

Challenge: Bored Piles in the Platform Area

The particular challenge was the location of the drilling points: The piles had to be constructed in the area of the central platform. Using conventional technology, the work would have been difficult to access. Parts of the platforms would have had to be dismantled first to reach the drilling points.
 

Solution: Foundation Work Directly from the Track

This is where the Foundation Construction Train demonstrated its strengths: The foundation work could be carried out directly from the track. This allowed the four bored piles to be constructed precisely without the need to create additional access routes via the platforms.

The operation in Haan-Gruiten thus demonstrates the capabilities of the Foundation Construction Train for special foundation works in hard-to-access areas of railway infrastructure.

Find our video on YouTube: Rail Foundation Train in Action: 4 Bored Piles Directly from the Track!

Specialist deep foundation drilling in Haan-Gruiten
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