Rolling stock maintenance - RAMFER

Since 2017, Colas Rail has decided to create its commercial brand to definitively enter the railway rolling stock maintenance market.
 

RAMFER: Network of Railway Maintenance. Deployed over five sites, in four corners of France, the RAMFER network is specialised in the maintenance of rolling stock and machines, particularly in the rail sector. We provide Railway Companies and Track Work Companies with our equipped workshops, mobile maintenance teams, experienced workforce, maintenance methods, hotlines and innovative solutions, such as ECO STOP (the Start/Stop system well-known in the automotive sector, adapted to on-track machines).

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Our services

Maintenance engineering:
  • ECE approved according to regulation 779-2019 for locomotives, on-track machines and wagons
  • Entity in Charge of Maintenance (ECM), wagons approved according to European regulation 5/2011, Li, ECM Locos
  • Maintenance plan creation
  • Maintenance / dispatching schedule management
  • Studies, reliability, optimisation of maintenance plans using lessons learned
  • Certification (RFN-CG-MRO A-00-N°002 and IN1 18) preparation
  • Electronic/mechanical/hydraulic change
  • Integration of new systems (MESA 26, ECOSTOP, etc.)
Preventative maintenance works: 

On all our sites:

  • Maintenance of rail/road machines (excavator, access platform, ELAN, etc
  • Maintenance of all types of on-track machines (tamper, regulator, etc
  • Maintenance of locomotives with underframe visual inspections/technical inspection and IH5 (main revision), conventional machines and tools


In the Ateliers des Flandres:

  • Revision of all types of ‘dry’ wagons and locomotives

At your hubs, industrial sidings, sites, logistics bases and works bases
Wagons, technical inspections, underframe visual inspections, level 1 and 2 maintenance
Locomotives, machines, on-track machine

Corrective maintenance works and troubleshooting:
  • Hotline troubleshooting, 2 /7 after-sales service contract
  • Mobile maintenance from all our site
  • Technical assistance, expertise, telephone diagnostics
  • Locomotive and wagon rerailing on private track
  • Restoration following an incident / accident
Maintenance of assets:
  • Repowering Retrofit
  • Locomotives (IH , IH5, IH6, HU, etc.), on-track machines and rail / road
  • 10/15-year maintenance of machine
  • Digital safety inductions 

Industry environment
  • Rail operations
  • Maintenance & technical inspections
  • Railway safety & prevention

Innovation and CSR added value

ECOSTOP

logical system developed by Colas Rail, allows the driver to switch off and restart the machines diesel engine during periods of parking or waiting. When the locomotive is stationary with the engine idle and the brake activated, ECOSTOP automatically stops the machine and uses its available energy to ensure a sustainable restart. This change saves fuel, reduces CO2 emissions and improves the machines operating quality.


Air conditioning

Use of 1234YF gas


Vehicle 

light electric response vehicles 

France:

  • 5 sites : which opened in the 2000s: in different regions of France to better connect with our customers
  • 26 engineers working in our design offices
  • 24 partners available for fast response times.
  • €964 millions replacement value of our equipment
  • 61 technicians specialists in our 4 maintenance centres

Our references

  • COLAS RAIL
  • Alphatrains
  • CTSF
  • EUROPORTE
  • AKIEM
  • BEACON
  • WASCOSA
  • ERMEWA
  • ARMEE
  • TTH
  • EQUANS