As the English saying goes: Never change a winning team. But what if you could enhance that team with a small innovation? One of our clients needed a solution to replace the current EKOS-V systems with in the nine 1:9 NP46 turnouts near Amsterdam Westhaven. With just a small adjustment to our DeltaSwitch, we were able to offer our client the perfect solution they were looking for.
The DeltaSwitch was originally designed for the Dutch standard 54E1 turnouts. This type of turnout contains low slide chairs. Many of the NP46 turnouts, however, contain high slide chairs. The challenge was innovating the DeltaSwitch in such a way, that it could be applied to this type of turnout as well. And with this enhanced product, our Mobile Track Services team headed over to Amsterdam Westhaven for the installation:
The biggest advantage the DeltaSwitch provides is an improvement of the free wheel passage. In addition, the setting force is reduced, it doesn’t need frequent adjustments, and it causes less wear and tear to the point and slide chairs. Furthermore, the DeltaSwitch requires less maintenance. Due to all these qualities, the DeltaSwitch secures a safer turnout.
The DeltaSwitch can now be applied to turnouts with and without a roller at the nose of the point (a typical Dutch construction) in the following configurations: 54E1 concrete, 54E1 wood/synthetic, the 50E2 (recently installed in Gent, Belgium) and the 46E3 (NP46) wood/synthetic with high slide chairs.
Are you interested in this product? Feel free to visit our web shop. If you would like to apply the DeltaSwitch to a different type of turnout, feel free to contact one of our Product Managers Sjors van de Vecht or Daniël Poll Jonker.