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Sersa Group is a Swiss
The company supplies services relating to rail track construction and renewals; including ballasted and
railtrack
Railtrack was a group of companies that owned the track, signalling, tunnels, bridges, level crossings and all but a handful of the stations of the British railway system from 1994 until 2002. It was created as part of the privatisation of ...
construction and maintenance company.
History
Sersa (''Soudage électrique des rails S.A.'') was founded in 1948 inNeuchâtel
, neighboring_municipalities= Auvernier, Boudry, Chabrey (VD), Colombier, Cressier, Cudrefin (VD), Delley-Portalban (FR), Enges, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Hauterive, Saint-Blaise, Savagnier
, twintowns = Aarau (Switzerland), Besançon (France), ...
by Arnold Schnyder as a rail track maintenance company operating on the rail system around Zurich, Switzerland. Arnold Schnyder's son Konrad took over the company and expanded the business to cover track infrastructure work throughout Switzerland, as well as establishing subsidiaries abroad. (Germany, UK, Netherlands, Ireland, Canada, Spain).
Operations
The company supplies services relating to rail track construction and renewals; including ballasted and slab track
A ballastless track or slab track is a type of railway track infrastructure in which the traditional elastic combination of ties/sleepers and ballast is replaced by a rigid construction of concrete or asphalt.
Characteristics
In ballastless t ...
construction, catenary construction, and project management
Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process. Th ...
. Maintenance of track including ballast cleaning and tamping, rail inspection, welding, grinding and milling, and operates and leases a variety of machinery such as tamping machines, cranes, grinding trains and ballast cleaning machines.
Subsidiaries
The company has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands; ''Sersa (UK) Ltd.'' and ''Sersa BV''. In 2009 the group acquired the Canadian track construction and maintenance company Total Track.References
External links
* *{{cite web, url=http://www.crashbuffer.com/p16e.htm, title=The EST CRASH BUFFER , Information and References : Sersa Am843, publisher=EST Eisenbahn-Systemtechnik GmbH, work=www.crashbuffer.com Railway infrastructure companies Rail infrastructure in Switzerland Transport companies of Switzerland