Preowned Track Construction and Maintenance Machines
What are we offering ? We find the right machine for your project
but also sell your used machines you dont need anymore
Our range of products and services we are offering
- Preowned Track Construction, Renewal and Maintenance Machines from 1.000 mm to 1.676 mm gauge
- Preowned Overhead Catenary Construction & Maintenance Machines and equipment for all track gauges
- Preowned Locomotives for hauling work trains on construction sites or construction material trains from depots or quarries to work sites
- Preowned, redesigned and new wagons needed for work site logistics in track & catenary construction and maintenance.
- Consulting Services providing work methods for track construction and renewal as well as their implementation
Preowned Track Construction and Maintenance Machines, the sustainable and more efficient solution
Keeping a competitive edge over competition while maintaining the technical and economic standard of plant up to date as it is requested by customers worldwide, this is the big challenge of all railway construction companies competing in the national and international marketplaces. While the prices for track construction plant are raising all the time, the enormous competition in the various markets around the world leads to lower track work prices and thus much reduced profits. Profits however are needed for necessary investments into plant to keep a company competitive, - very much a catch 22 situation for contractors worldwide.
Another problem are the long delivery times nowadays for new on track plant. A lead time of over 2 years for a standard tamping machine or regulator or a 3 – 4 year wait for a ore custom built track renewal or laying train produce other big challenges a contractor must face. With usual mobilization times of only 6 – 9 months, new plant cannot be purchased specifically for a job as there is simply not enough time apart from the also very challenging prices for new plant.
The answer to the problem is to employ preowned rather than new track construction machines. Preowned machines with up to date technology offer similar efficiency and output as brand new machines. We at SK Rail have a lot of experience to provide such preowned machines which provide a similar output, track quality and efficiency at much reduced cost and short delivery times.
Due to over 40 years of work with used on track machines all over the world we are the right people to consult when advice and assistance is needed for choosing the best plant for you for your job.
About SKRail
SK Rail is the specialised supplier of preowned track construction and maintenance machines. We are supported by over 40 years of experience and supplies into over 50 countries on 5 continents. Since the late 1970ies we are supplying mostly Plasser & Theurer as well as Matisa machines to track construction and track renewal sites after having made them fit to perform under the specific and very often challenging conditions in the various climate zones in the world, from deserts in the Middle East, Central Asia and Australia to the very remote tropical places of Africa, Latin America and South East Asia. But we also do have extensive experience to operate on track plant in densly populated areas in Asia and Europe and we have learnt to deal with problems of noise reduction and emission control.Over the last 20 years we also have been able to build a reputation for the supply of construction and maintenance machine for overhead catenary, both, rail bound and road/rail machines.
For construction & maintenance site logistics as well as for railway transport companies, private and industrial railway and work sidings SK Rail supplies preowned locomotives, from shunters and industrial locos from 120 – 1200 hp to mid range and big diesel locos from 1000 – 4000 hp.
Our service for industrial railways and work sidings also covers shunting vehicles and robots both new and second hand, road/rail or rail only, shunting gear and equipment such as scotches, wagon and track locks, re-railers, pushing rods, shunting signals, etc. as well as brake shoes, both metallic as well as composite non-metallic, for locos and wagons and disc brake pads.
Second hand wagons represent a growing share of turnover as well. Apart from typical wagons for construction and maintenance purposes such as ballast hopper wagons, flat wagons for transport of rails, track panels and sleepers, dirt wagons for ballast cleaning machines etc., SK Rail also supplies special purpose wagons for transport of different sorts of freight and goods. Hydraulic and pneumatic tipping wagons for bulk loads of aggregates as well as tank wagons for the chemical and petro-chemical industry are part of the supply programs.
The parent company, SK Consulting GmbH, is proud to have a team of experienced consultants for methodologies of track construction and the machine technology related to track construction and renewal on track plant as well as for Locomotives and wagons. Also SK Consulting’s team for work sidings and industrial railways has an excellent record for modernising installations and shunting hardware in order to achieve the optimum in efficiency.