In 2009 RAIL.ONE Group won the contract for modernizing old rail tunnels in Mainz, Germany. Over a length of 670 metres, the GETRAC® A3 ballastless track system has been installed as a light mass-spring system for the old tunnel at the Main Station. The Mainz South Tunnel has also been equipped over a length of 230 metres with GETRAC® A3 on an asphalt supporting layer. RAIL.ONE delivered a total of approx. 3,000 GETRAC® A3 wide concrete sleepers for the 900 metres of double track in the two tunnels.

After RAIL.ONE’s completion of the Kehretunnel (2001), the Heiligenberg Tunnel (2001-2002), the Esslingerberg Tunnel (2004), the Brandleite Tunnel (2005), and the Schlüchterner Tunnel (2008-2010), upgrading of the old tunnels in Mainz is already the sixth consecutive tunnel system that RAIL.ONE has equipped with the GETRAC® A3 system. For RAIL.ONE, this project is an essential milestone for official designation of the system as standard mode of construction for tunnel modernization in the network of Deutsche Bahn.

In Taiwan, RAIL.ONE will install its RHEDA 2000® ballastless track system to provide the link between Taiwan Taoyyuan International Airport and the metro network of the capital of Taipei. After participating in work for the Taiwan High Speed Rail line, and in the projects of the Taiwan Railway Administration (TRA) for upgrading its existing network, the contract awarded to RAIL.ONE for the Airport Link is an additional major project for the company in Taiwan. Beginning in July of 2010, RAIL.ONE will deliver to Taiwan 40,000 type B 355 modified bi-block concrete sleepers from production in Greece. As part of a contract awarded by Teh Hshin Enterprise Co., Ltd., a licence factory will be built in Taiwan for production of additional 110,000 concrete sleepers. This plant is scheduled to begin operations in March of 2011. The scope of work for this project includes engineering, delivery of materials and equipment, assembly and construction of the production facilities, and supervisory services during actual production.

In February of 2010 RAIL.ONE built a licence factory in Kimberley, South Africa, for production of main-track sleepers. In advance of the World Cup games, the state railway company Transnet Ltd. decided for the extension and upgrading of the 21,000-km railway network in South Africa, and commissioned RAIL.ONE, through its partner RAIL 2 RAIL South Africa Pty Ltd., to build a concrete-sleeper factory. In accordance with the respective agreements, this plant will supply one million concrete sleepers to Transnet over the coming five years. These contracts furthermore include a licence agreement on the transfer of know-how in the areas of materials management, production engineering, quality management, and concrete sleepers.

With the decision for application of the RHEDA 2000® system in the presently most important transport-infrastructure project in central Germany, RAIL.ONE succeeded in achieving an additional success for its ballastless-track technology. The RHEDA 2000® ballastless track system was selected for the permanent way in the Leipzig City Tunnel. In order to satisfy special requirements for protection from vibration and noise in the tunnel under the city, the ballastless track is additionally being executed as a mass-spring system. Beginning in 2013, the tunnel will go into service as a convergence/divergence rail network for all Leipzig heavy-rail commuter lines.

In the city of Dublin the RHEDA CITY system has been installed for extension of the tram network on the Dublin LUAS A1 line, for sections 401 and 402. For this project, RAIL.ONE delivered RHEDA CITY bi-block sleepers for approx. 5.6 km of covered track and 2.5 km of open track, with delivery to the Dutch construction company BAM Ireland. RAIL.ONE likewise supplied turnout sleepers for the planned tram turnouts.

The project Metro Sevilla con Alcalá de Guadaira was for RAIL.ONE Group the first reference project in tram applications on the Iberian Peninsula. For linking of Alcalá to the existing Line 1 of the Metro de Sevilla, RAIL.ONE delivered more than 17 km of RHEDA CITY track. In addition, RAIL.ONE was responsible for system supervision of track installation.

RAIL.ONE Group succeeded in entering the Arabian market in late 2007, when it won the contract for Project Sections CTW 100 to 300 for the North-South Line: a rail line with a total length of 2,400 km, extending from the mining districts in the northwest of Saudi Arabia, south to Dammam. In 2007, RAIL.ONE constructed a concrete-sleeper factory in Hail, around 700 km north of Riyadh, to produce and deliver the 850,000 main-track sleepers and approx. 78,000 linear metres of turnout sleepers needed for this line. The successful execution of this supply contract played a key role for RAIL.ONE in also winning the subsequent tender for Project Section CTW 400 in February of 2010. As contracted by the Saudi construction company Al Ayuni, RAIL.ONE will deliver an additional 850,000 type AR 06 heavy-load concrete sleepers for new construction of the North-South Line. For this line, which is single-track for most of its length, specifications for sleeper design call for ability to handle axle loads of 32.5 metric tonnes. The type AR 06 heavy-load sleeper designed for this project by RAIL.ONE satisfies these strict requirements: not only by its massive concrete body, but also by greater pretensioning in comparison to standard European sleepers.

With high energy prices and increased demand for raw materials, freight and extreme-load railway traffic has assumed a key function in intermodal competition. For these exceptional demands placed on track technology, RAIL.ONE has developed special concrete sleepers designed for static axle loads up to more than 40 metric tonnes. In mid-2007, the first RAIL.ONE concrete sleepers were installed in a sub-section of the North American railway network. For RAIL.ONE, the application of its sleeper technology on a freight line with one of the heaviest loads in the world is an important milestone for entry into markets with great axle loads.