Power Transfer for Rail

Mersen offers a reliable and effective solution for a smooth contact between the wheels and the rail. It allows transit and freight operators all over the world to reduce the consumption of their fleet while avoiding to release pollutants into the environment.

Mersen offers a large range of CCD shoes for electrical current collection in urban networks. The diversity of products allows to find the most suitable solutions for each metro system. The use of carbon allows to reduce friction, and therefore protects the power rail and improves its lifetime.

Mersen offers a large range of pantograph contact strips for electrical current collection for AC and DC networks.

Mersen is providing compact, safe and reliable on board knife switch.

Measuring current collection

With over forty years of experience in designing products for traction, Mersen have developed and deliver the adapted setting tools adapted for your overhaul maintenance level to ensure and guarantee the quality for your products during the life time of the train.

The setting tool is mandatory to maintain your CCD when comes the overhaul time.

The Mersen lightning arrester enclosures are designed to protect railway networks against disturbances incurred by lightning, in the feeding lines in the substations along the railtrack (pole enclosure) as well as in the power lines mounted on the roof (pantograph enclosure).

Since fifty years, Mersen deliver the necessary spare parts to make the maintenance, the overhauls  based on the Maintenance manual and the repair actions for your products when necessary.

Mersen proposes a range of On-board resistance. Those resistances have the function to artificially increase the resistance of the connection point in order to “push” the current through the ERCU.