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Consulting and Inspection

Vossloh Rail Services has over 60 years of company history working with all aspects of rails. Together with the expertise of our skilled engineers and technicians, this experience forms the foundation of our wide range of inspection and consulting services.


Inspection and Testing Services

Rail surface inspection
  • Corrugation inspection
  • Eddy current inspection (to detect head checks and other cracks)
  • Hardness gauging
  • Roughness gauging

Internal rail flaw detection
  • Manual ultrasonic inspection

Inspection of rail geometry
  • Rail height measurement
  • Cross profile assessment

In addition to the raw measurement data, we also provide detailed analyses and assessments of the gathered information.

Long-Term Diagnostics and Degradation Assessments
  • Evaluation of wear characteristics
  • Projection of defect development

Consulting Services
  • Identification of optimisation potential in rail care strategy
  • Elaboration of cost-effective maintenance schemes
  • Solutions for elimination of nonstandard or isolated rail defects
  • Special requests (individual and stand-alone solutions)
  • Training sessions

Further information