Flying track

Transportable field railway track of the Decauville type

Flying tracks are temporarily built railway tracks that are laid directly on the ground at the construction site with little or no construction of a substructure . Such tracks can be produced quickly and inexpensively, but they are only suitable for light vehicles or vehicles with a low axle load . No time-consuming assembly and dismantling work is necessary.

In addition to being used on construction sites, flying tracks were often used on light railways of different gauge , e.g. B. in mining, on forest railways or on army field railways .

The tracks are constructed as preassembled track sections in various lengths and can simply be screwed together.

In the Swiss peat mining industry , they were called Auslegegeleise around 1920 .

See also

• Examples of hand-operated Decauville railways

Web links

• The Orenstein & Koppel patent track

Individual evidence

1. ↑ E. Probst: peat fields of the Central Plateau. In: The exploitation of peat in Switzerland from 1917 to 1921. Pages 258–372.