Scheuchzer (company)

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Coordinates: 46 ° 32 '41.1 "  N , 6 ° 33' 25.2"  E ; CH1903:  five hundred thirty-two thousand three hundred seventy-eight  /  155210

Scheuchzer
legal form SA
founding 1917
Seat Bussigny VD , SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
Number of employees 390
Branch Rail vehicle construction
Website www.scheuchzer.ch

The Scheuchzer SA is a Swiss track construction companies and manufacturers of railway equipment in Bussigny , Vaud .

The company operates its track construction vehicles mainly in Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, France and Italy.

history

The company's existence dates back to 1917 when Charles-Auguste Scheuchzer (1878–1960) bought a factory in Renens in order to be able to build his developments. August Scheuchzer was a pioneer in the mechanization of railway maintenance and in the 1920s he developed the first machines designed for track maintenance (a weeding machine in 1921, a ballast cleaning machine in 1927 and a tamping machine in 1931 ), which were manufactured and sold by his company. In 1956, August Scheuchzer received an honorary doctorate from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne for his work . In 1934 he sold the factory and the patents, but kept selling his products in Switzerland. The company was re-acquired by his two sons in 1947 and continued as "Les Fils d'Auguste Scheuchzer SA, Lausanne". It was later renamed “Scheuchzer SA” and “Scheuchzer SA”, and in 2003 the company's headquarters were relocated from Lausanne to Bussigny, where the workshops and maintenance facilities had been located for a long time.

Vehicle developments

The company developed track renewal trains at an early stage, which enable work to be carried out without the neighboring track being blocked. These developments continued, so today vehicles are also being developed that allow maintenance to be carried out on high-speed lines without speed restrictions on the neighboring track. This also includes the staging of work that enables the route to be reopened during the day - albeit with a reduction in speed. Intermittent construction work is almost unavoidable today on heavily used track systems. With the track renewal trains “Puscal” and “Puma”, one track yoke can each be lifted out and the entire substructure or superstructure replaced in the relevant section . However, after the track yoke has been reinserted, it is possible that the construction site will be completely cleared and the next track section can only be worked on in the following shift. This without the need for a road or a construction runway next to the track, as all material can be brought in and out of the track.

Another field of activity are grinding trains . This development led to today's self-propelled grinding trains with several grinding heads, which make it possible to machine all sides of the rail head in one operation. With the MRK-W there is a grinding machine that enables turnouts to be ground fully automatically.

In the case of grading and tamping machines, vehicles are generally not developed in-house today; these machine types are obtained from the manufacturers Matisa and Plasser & Theurer .

Own vehicles

Scheuchzer SA only operates standard-gauge vehicles, the majority of which comply with UIC standards.

Traction vehicles

  • Bm 846 601 "Gazelle", 92 85 8 846 601-3, French diesel locomotive from Brissonneau et Lotz to the Houillères du bassin du Nord-Pas-de-Calais (HBNPC), delivered in 1992 as Em 4/4 1110 to the SBB as Rental locomotive in use, bought by Scheuchzer in 1998.
  • Am 847 101 “Bison”, 92 85 8 847 101-3, purchased in 2004 as a new vehicle from CFD , Bagnères de Bigorre
  • Am 840 001–003 “Rhino 1” - “Rhino 3”, the three SBB Am 840 that SBB Cargo took over in 2013
  • Tm 1–4, in 2015 only the Tm 40 85 95 70 001-9 “Husky” (ex No. 3) was still in operation
  • VTm, 40 85 94 81 501-6 + 502-4, built by Plasser & Theurer and taken over by AMEBA AG, were the towing vehicles for the GWM 220 rail grinding train.

Self-propelled construction machinery

Grinding trains

  • "MRK 1" - "MRK 4"; the four five-part rail grinding machines consist of; Grinding machine VTms M 40x - filter trolley - grinding machine VTms M 45x - material trolley - grinding machine VTms M 62x (x according to MRK number 1-4 each)
  • «MRK-W»; the three-part grinding machine is suitable for point grinding and consists of; Grinding machine M 411 - M 202 - M 621
  • «GRIZZLY 101» - «GRIZZLY 106»

Rail maintenance

  • «BOA 811», «BOA 812», rail welding machine
  • «BOA 821», «BOA 822», rail changing machine

Tamping, leveling and straightening machines

  • "DP 951" - "DP 956", continuously operating ballast leveling and compaction machine of the P&T type KVP 2000
  • «DP 521» - «DP 525», ballast leveler
  • "B 203", "B 204", leveling, straightening, tamping machine, 2015 B 204 discarded
  • “B 251”, “B 252”, leveling, straightening, tamping machine, both decommissioned in 2015
  • “B 758” - “B 762”, leveling, straightening and tamping machine were retrofitted with a trailer with a sweeping system.
  • "B 2001" "B 3001", leveling, straightening, tamping machine
  • «BNA 333», «BNA 334», leveling, straightening, tamping machine
  • «BNA 661» - «BNA 665», leveling, straightening, tamping machine
  • «BNA 341», leveling, straightening, tamping machine
  • «C 76» «S 76», ballast cleaning machine
  • "DRL 11", ballast cleaning and track renewal machine
  • "DRL 21", ballast cleaning and track renewal machine
  • «DRL-C», ballast cleaning and track construction machine

Track renewal trains

These are not self-propelled and only have an auxiliary drive.

  • "PUMA 1" - "PUMA 3", track renewal train (superstructure only)
  • "PUMA 901" ("PUMA 90L"), track renewal train (superstructure only)
  • "PUMA S", track renewal train (superstructure only)
  • «PUSCAL 1» - «PUSCAL 3», substructure renovation train
  • «PUSCAL T», substructure renovation train

literature

  • Christian Ochsner The rolling stock of the Swiss railway technology companies 2015, pages 300–371

Web links

Commons : Scheuchzer  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Société ( Memento des Originals from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.scheuchzer.ch
  2. ↑ Christian Ochsner, the rolling stock of the Swiss railway technology company, page 300