A drill station for a rail loading and unloading machine. The drill station is provided between primary and secondary drive units to enable adjacent ends of a pair of sections of rail to be driven independently by a respective drive unit to position the ends on the drill station for drilling. The drill station is raised from a stowed position below a walkway to conduct a drilling operation and retracted to provide workspace for an operator to install joining plates on segments of rail.
Rail drilling station for a rail loading and unloading machine
2016-08-02
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
Rail guide apparatus for a rail loading and unloading machine
European Patent Office | 2016
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