ArcelorMittal Rails & Special Sections

Transport rail
Brochure and technical manual
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Introduction
ArcelorMittal is the world’s leading steel and mining company, With production sites in Gijón (Spain), Dabrowa Górnicza and
with over 158.000 employees in more than 60 countries, and Chorzów (Poland), Rodange (Luxembourg), ArcelorMittal is
annual steel capacity production of 82.7 million tonnes. part of a small group of rail manufacturers whose production
has developed notably in the specialised high-speed and
ArcelorMittal is the leader in all major global steel markets, heavy transport sectors.
including automotive, construction, household appliances,
packaging and rails, with leading R&D and technology, ArcelorMittal has implemented and keeps updated a quality
as well as sizeable captive supplies of raw materials and assurance system that complies with the requirements
outstanding distribution networks. With an industrial of the international standard ISO 9001, and is certified by
presence in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, the Company AENOR, the Spanish Association for Standardisation and
covers all of the key steel markets, from emerging to mature. Certification, a member of IQNet, the international network of
organisations for the evaluation and certification of quality
systems. ArcelorMittal Poland and ArcelorMittal Rodange are
both ISO 9001 certified.

Leadership

Rails are a steel product of a high complexity, both as

regards its technical design and manufacturing process,
and the ever greater demands made on them in their
service conditions. Rails must be capable of responding
satisfactorily to the increase in the loads hauled, increases
in speed, a higher train frequency, a higher level of comfort
(on passenger lines) and, above all, to railroad safety
requirements.

Today, only a very small group of rail manufacturers combine

long experience with a dynamic of continuous improvement
to their facilities and processes. The factor that differentiates
this select group of manufacturers from their competitors is
their high technological level, which allows them to supply a
rail of excellent quality, capable of meeting the present and
future needs of the most demanding users.
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R&D Laboratory

In ArcelorMittal we are permanently committed to improving The mechanical test laboratory carries out the mechanical
rail steel quality, production and new developments. The and metallographic tests required to guarantee the quality of
development of new materials starts with a design of new the final product.
material, which includes both chemical composition and
heat treatment, continues with the fabrication and testing The following stand out among the number of tests
of the prototypes and ends with real test track. To carry out performed in these facilities:
such process, ArcelorMittal Global R&D designs and builds • Tensile test at ambient temperature
different equipment, such as for advanced testing and in-
use properties control (twin-disk and real size Rolling Contact • Hardness test (Brinell, Vickers and Rockwell)
Fatigue Bench). • Impact / crash test
• Heat treatments (specimen ageing)
In addition, there is a pilot welding plant with: aluminothermic
welding equipment, heat treatment furnaces and specific Analyses are also made of the chemical composition (of heat
repair welding equipment, among others. The rail welding and/or product) together with metallographic analyses.
research line has extensive experience in finite element
simulation of rail joining processes, which allows us to advance • Bauman prints
on specific procedures adapted to the new rail grades. • Micrographs
• Macroetching
Once the rail is installed on track, a monitoring of the most
relevant parameters is carried out. This monitoring of the • Inclusions rate
performance may include hardness, wear, rolling contact • Decarburisation
fatigue or corrosion evolution.
ArcelorMittal performs the suitability tests required in the
European standard EN 13674-1. Moreover, ArcelorMittal issues
certificates of all its products in accordance with EN 10204,
AREMA and others.

Development of new products

ArcelorMittal to continuously improve rail steel by

harmonising the set of characteristics that determine the
rails’ performance on the track, such as hardness, dry wear
resistance or fatigue resistance and weldability.

In this area, ArcelorMittal research and carrying out tests,

requirements of the European standard, particularly:

• Oligocyclic fatigue test

• Fatigue crack growth test

• Fracture toughness test

• Weldability test

• Residual stress test

ArcelorMittal produces rails to the following standards:

Euronorm (EN), ASCE standard, American Standard (AREMA),
Australian standard (AS), British standard (BS), Russian
standard (GOST), Indian standard (IRST), and to the particular
specifications of its customers. ArcelorMittal is homologated
in the main Railway Administrations.
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Applications
The rails and track fittings manufactured by ArcelorMittal are not only supplied to the European
market, but exported throughout the world for high speed tracks, heavy haul tracks, urban transport
systems, etc.

The quality of the products developed by ArcelorMittal has earned us the full confidence of our
customers, to whom we are able to offer the highest level of reliability to be found today on the market.

This is why our rails are used on both railway and urban underground lines in Europe, Asia, Africa,
Oceania and America.

The experience, technology and guaranteed quality

of the rails manufactured by ArcelorMittal allow us to
offer:

• A variety of sizes from 40 kg/m to 80 kg/m.

• A wide range of steel grades to international

standards or to the customers’ own technical
specifications, both for the construction of
newtracks and for revamping existing ones.

• Possibility to manufacture any new type of rail

(4,000 tonnes minimum)

• Rails with very strict dimensional tolerances for high

speed tracks.

• One-piece rails up to 120 metres long.

• Long welded rails (up to 288 metres)

• Asymmetric rails.
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Public and urban transport lines

This market is expanding rapidly throughout

the world, due to urban growth and the
saturation that it originates, in order to
provide transport services for the population
living in the outskirts and peripheral towns.

Urban systems have a high service frequency

and face a difficult topography, with sharp
curves and steep gradients, as well as short
braking and acceleration distances.

ArcelorMittal supplies rails for underground

systems and intercity railways in cities such
as Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Seville, Paris,
Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Fortaleza,
Brasilia, Caracas, Medellin, etc.

Heavy haul lines

These lines carry great quantities of ores, containers and

other products. The traffic is usually characterised by trains
with a high number of wagons and high load per axle.

Rails with high wear resistance and high fatigue failure Mixed-traffic systems
resistance are required for these tracks.
The operation of these systems involves a great variety
High speed lines of traffic conditions, different topographies and climates,
frequently, in oneway routes and in a wide variety of densities.
It is a continuosly growing market in Europe and in most
industrialised countries with speeds over 350 km/h. Switches and crossovers

ArcelorMittal supplies rails that combine excellent reliability, ArcelorMittal has joined the group of worldclass
geometrical precision, strict flatness tolerance and the manufacturers of rails for switches through the production of
highest quality on the market, for high speed lines in Spain, switch bars of up to 108 m. (or 120 m.) from special asymmetric
France, Germany, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, etc. rails.
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Flat Bottom Rails

C
TYPE DIMENSIONS (mm) SECTION MASS /M
STANDARD
D OF RAIL H B C D E cm2 kg/m

H EUROPEAN STANDARDS
NEUTRAL AXIS E
39E1 (BS 80A) EN 13674-4 133,35 117,47 63,50 42,47 13,10 50,66 39,77

45E1 (BS 90A) EN 13674-4 142,88 127,00 66,67 46,04 13,89 57,46 45,11

B 45E3 (RN 45) EN 13674-4 142,00 130,00 66,00 40,50 15,00 57,05 44,79

46E2 (U33) EN 13674-1 145,00 134,00 62,00 47,00 15,00 58,94 46,27

MAV48 EN 13674-1 148,00 120,00 66,80 50,00 14,00 61,78 48,50

49E1 (S49) EN 13674-1 149,00 125,00 67,00 51,50 14,00 62,92 49,39

49E5 EN 13674-1 149,00 125,00 67,00 51,50 14,00 62,59 49,13

50E2 EN 13674-1 151,00 140,00 72,00 44,00 15,00 63,65 49,97

50E3 EN 13674-1 155,00 133,00 70,00 48,00 14,00 63,71 50,02

50E6 (U50) EN 13674-1 153,00 140,00 65,00 49,00 15,50 64,84 50,90

54E1 (UIC54) EN 13674-1 159,00 140,00 70,00 49,40 16,00 69,77 54,77

54E2 (UIC54E) EN 13674-1 161,00 125,00 67,00 51,40 16,00 68,56 53,82

54E3 (S54) EN 13674-1 154,00 125,00 67,00 55,00 16,00 69,52 54,57

54E4 EN 13674-1 154,00 125,00 67,00 55,00 16,00 69,19 54,31

54E5 EN 13674-1 159,00 140,00 70,20 49,40 16,00 69,32 54,42

56E1 EN 13674-1 158,75 140,00 69,85 49,21 20,00 71,69 56,30

60E1 (UIC60) EN 13674-1 172,00 150,00 72,00 51,00 16,50 76,70 60,21

60E2 EN 13674-1 172,00 150,00 72,00 51,00 16,50 76,48 60,03

AUSTRALIAN STANDARD

AS60 AS 1085. 1 170,00 146,00 70,00 49,00 16,50 77,25 60,60

AS68 AS 1085. 1 185,70 152,40 74,60 49,20 17,50 86,02 67,50

RUSSIAN STANDARD

R50 (P50) GOST 152,00 132,00 72,00 42,00 16,00 65,99 51,80

R65 (P65) GOST 180,00 150,00 75,00 45,00 18,00 82,65 64,88

AMERICAN STANDARD

90ARA-A (TR45) AREMA 142,90 130,20 65,10 37,30 14,30 56,90 44,65

100RE AREMA 152,40 136,52 68,26 42,07 14,29 64,19 50,35

115RE (TR57) AREMA 168,30 139,70 69,10 42,90 15,90 72,32 56,73

136RE (TR68) AREMA 185,70 152,40 74,60 49,20 17,50 85,93 67,40
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Switches and Crossing

TYPE DIMENSIONS (mm) SECTION MASS /M

STANDARD
OF RAIL H B C D E cm2 kg/m

60 E1T2
H
E EN 13674-2 172,00 150,00 72,00 54,00 30,00 94,57 74,24
(A74, UIC60A)

49E1A3
EN 13674-2 116,00 145,00 66,80 53,50 40,00 80,49 63,18
(I49)

54 E1A1
(A69, UIC54B, EN 13674-2 129,00 147,00 70,00 49,40 40,00 87,83 68,95
C ZuUIC54B)

H E 60 E1A1
EN 13674-2 134,00 140,00 72,00 53,00 44,00 92,95 72,97
(A73, UIC60B, Zu 1 60)

B
60 E1A4
EN 13674-2 142,00 150,00 72,00 51,15 32,50 88,95 69,83
(60D)

60 E1A6
EN 13674-2 139,00 160,00 72,00 53,00 40,00 97,08 76,21
(I60)

33 C1
EN 13674-3 93,00 40,00 80,00 33,00 20,00 42,02 32,99
(A69, UIC33, RL 1-60)

SBB Radlenker EN 13674-3 104,00 40,00 80,00 45,00 20,00 51,66 40,56

Conductor rail

TYPE DIMENSIONS (mm) SECTION MASS /M

STANDARD
OF RAIL H B C D E cm2 kg/m

C
C

D
STR - 105,20 80,00 80,00 43,00 18,00 51,00 40,00
H
H
EE

B STR 74
- 103,20 123,80 104,80 44,50 69,80 94,26 74,05
(150 LBS MMC)
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Chemical composition

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
STEEL
STANDARD MAX H MAX O
GRADE %C %Mn %Si %P %S %Ni %Mo %Al %Cr %V %N %Cu %Nb
ppm ppm

0,40 0,8 0,05 MAX MAX

700 - - - - - - - - - -
0,60 1,25 0,35 0,05 0,05

0,60 0,8 0,1 MAX MAX

UIC 860-R 900A - - - - - - - - - -
0,80 1,3 0,5 0,04 0,04

0,55 1,3 0,1 MAX MAX

900B - - - - - - - - - -
0,75 1,7 0,5 0,04 0,04

0,40 0,70 0,15 MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX ≤ MAX MAX MAX MAX
R200 3,0 20
0,60 1,20 0,58 0,035 0,035 0,10 0,02 0,004 0,15 0,03 0,009 0,15 0,01

0,62 0,70 0,15 MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX ≤ MAX MAX MAX MAX
R260 2,5 20
0,80 1,20 0,58 0,025 0,025 0,10 0,02 0,004 0,15 0,03 0,009 0,15 0,01

EN 13674-1 0,55 1,30 0,15 MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX ≤ MAX MAX MAX MAX
R260 MN 2,5 20
0,75 1,70 0,60 0,025 0,025 0,10 0,02 0,004 0,15 0,03 0,009 0,15 0,01

0,72 0,70 0,15 MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX ≤ MAX MAX MAX MAX
R350 HT 2,5 20
0,80 1,20 0,58 0,02 0,025 0,10 0,02 0,004 0,15 0,03 0,009 0,15 0,04

0,72 0,70 0,15 MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX ≤ MAX MAX MAX MAX
R350 LHT 2,5 20
0,80 1,20 0,58 0,02 0,025 0,10 0,02 0,004 0,30 0,03 0,009 0,15 0,04

0,62 0,70 0,15 MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX
R260 2,5 20
0,80 1,20 0,58 0,025 0,025 0,10 0,02 0,004 0,15 0,03 0,009 0,15 0,01

0,72 0,70 0,15 MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX
EN 13674-2 R350 HT 2,5 20
0,80 1,20 0,58 0,020 0,025 0,10 0,02 0,004 0,15 0,03 0,009 0,15 0,04

0,72 0,70 0,15 MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX
R350 LHT 2,5 20
0,80 1,20 0,58 0,020 0,025 0,10 0,02 0,004 0,30 0,03 0,009 0,15 0,04

0,65 0,80 0,10 MAX MAX

A - - - - - - - - - -
0,80 1,30 0,50 0,040 0,040
BS 11 1965
0,55 1,30 0,10 MAX MAX
B - - - - - - - - - -
0,75 1,70 0,50 0,040 0,040

CARBON STANDARD 0,74 0,75 0,10 MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX
- - - - -
CARBON HIGH STRENGTH 0,86 1,25 0,60 0,020 0,020 0,25 0,06 0,01 0,30 0,01
AREMA
LOW ALLOY INT. STRENGTH 0,72 0,70 0,10 MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX 0,40 MAX
- - - - -
LOW ALLOY HIGH STRENGTH 0,82 1,25 1,00 0,020 0,020 0,15 0,05 0,005 0,70 0,01

0,65 0,70 0,15 MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX
AS 1085.1 ALL RAIL 2,5 35
0,82 1,25 0,58 0,025 0,025 0,10 0,02 0,005 0,15 0,03 0,01 0,15 0,010

0,74 0,80 MAX MAX 0,01 MAX MAX MAX

MICROALLOYED - - - - - 2,0 -
0,82 1,30 0,50 0,025 0,025 0,30 0,08 0,035

0,74 0,80 0,10 MAX 0,008 MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX
AM 900ACRV 2,0 20
0,84 1,25 0,60 0,025 0,025 0,10 0,02 0,02 0,35 0,07 0,009 0,15 0,010

0,62 0,70 0,15 MAX MAX MAX MAX MAX 0,40 0,04 MAX MAX MAX
B1000 2,0 20
0,82 1,20 1,0 0,025 0,025 0,10 0,02 0,02 0,80 0,20 0,009 0,15 0,010
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Mechanical properties

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
STEEL
STANDARD
GRADE RM M PA MIN A5% HB

680
700 14 -
830
880
UIC 860-R 900A 10 -
1030
880
900B 10 -
1030

R200 MIN 680 14 200-240

R260 MIN 880 10 260-300

EN 13674-1 R260 MN MIN 880 10 260-300

R350 HT MIN 1175 9 350-390

R350 LHT MIN 1175 9 350-390

R260 MIN 880 10 260-300

EN 13674-2 R350 HT MIN 1175 9 350-390

R350 LHT MIN 1175 9 350-390

A MIN 880 8 -
BS 11 1965
B MIN 880 8 -

CARBON STANDARD MIN 983 10 MIN 310 STANDARD S. RAIL

CARBON HIGH STRENGTH MIN 1179 10 MIN 370 HIGH S. RAIL

AREMA
LOW ALLOY INT. STRENGTH MIN 1014 8 MIN 325 INTERMEDIATE S. RAIL
LOW ALLOY HIGH STRENGTH MIN 1179 10 MIN 370 HIGH S. RAIL

ALL RAIL MIN 880 8 MIN 260

AS 1085.1
780
MICROALLOYED 9 MIN 340
1130

900ACRV MIN 1040 9 320-360

AM B1000 MIN 966 9 MIN 315

900ACRV MIN 1080 9 320-360

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References and global

presence

Rails manufractured by The quality of our products allows us This is the reason why our rails
ArcelorMittal are used worldwide, to enjoy total trust from our customers, are present in railways as well as
for high speed railways as well as to whom we can offer the highest underground lines in Europe, Asia,
for heavy hauls, urban transport, possible reliability in the present Africa, Oceania and America.
etc. market.

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