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Austria: Mobile milling supports preventive rail maintenance

By Hubert Oberhuber, DrMichael Ostermann, Johannes Wundersamer, Thomas Hammer and Lukas Prettner, Voestalpine Railway Systems and Wiener Linien 2023-01-13T09:00:00

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Wiener Linien has been exploring how a combination of mobile milling and investment in premium rail steels can help to optimise its maintenance costs and move from reactive to preventive interventions on its metro lines.

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