Unistar HR

modular switch setting system with integrated lock

voestalpine SIGNALING
www.voestalpine.com/signaling

UNISTAR HR
System Design and Product
Features
Applications and References

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Unistar HR: System Design

Drive, Locking,
Detecting Unit

Connecting
Rods

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Motor Unit, can be

placed up to 30m
away!

Unistar HR: locking device

Low number of components

Highest quality materials
Ultra compact
adjustable switch point opening

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Unistar HR: Product Features

Railway, Heavy Haul, Metro and Light Rail applications

Integrated locking: no need for external locking devices at the rails
SIL4 certified
market leading reliability and availability
choice of electro-hydraulic or electro-mechanic drive systems
multiple setting levels
operation of turnouts with and without stretcher bars (track rods)
operation of swing nose crossings (moveable point frogs)
adjustable switch point opening
compensation of thermal expansion and contraction of switch points
proven for operation under extreme conditions: desert, ice, tropical: IP67, -40 to 100C
Quick and easy installation

1800+ turnouts are equipped with Unistar HR already!

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Unistar HR: Monitoring

System Overview
SCM Server Installed in
customer server
centre or hosted by
voestalpine

Users can access information

from any web device with a
suitable browser

Data Logger/Current Sensors

installed in signaling control
room/Cabinet

Optional Hydraulic Sensor pack

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Unistar HR: Monitoring

The voestalpine
SIGNALING solution uses
a modular design, which
allows easy expansion to
include additional
monitoring and integration
with existing railway and IT
systems on a number of
levels. In simple terms the
system consists of sensors
to measure physical or
electrical parameters, field
units (data loggers), and a
back office server
(database server)

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Unistar HR family of switch machine

Unistar HR
Market Position
Drive

Unistar HR EM

Unistar HR
compact

Premium

Premium

Budget

Electro-hydraulic

Electromechanic

Electro-hydraulic

Unistar ELP
Budget
-

Integrated
Locking
Installation

Flexible

Multiple drives
with single
motor unit

Detector only

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Flexible

Outside the
gauge

Flexible

Unistar HR: multiple drives

Only one motor unit

Only one interface to the interlocking
Only one cable (save costs for cable)
Clean installation

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Unistar HR: multiple drives

turnout and MPF

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Unistar HR: multiple drives

video

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Unistar HR ELP: System Design

Detecting Unit

Connecting
Rods

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Unistar HR: concrete sleeper mounting

Installation on top of concrete sleepers

patented!
USP for of switch machine AND trackwork
system!
Cost saving: no hollow steel sleeper
required
Increased track stability
hollow steel sleeper fill with with sand or
snow
Automatic tamping
Alternative: hollow steel sleeper
mounting

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Reference: concrete sleeper mounting

Drive,
Locking,
Detecting
Unit

Unistar ELP

Motor Unit

Etihad Rail, Abu Dhabi

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Setting System

Reference: concrete sleeper mounting

FMG Heavy Haul Line, Australia

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Reference: hollow steel sleeper mounting

TCDD Ankara-Istanbul

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Unistar HR: stock rail mounting

Simple and quick installation

No stock rail drillings required
No modifications to trackwork
Adjustable for gauge tolerance and rail
bending radius
Ideal for retrofitting

for UIC and AREMA turnouts

Extra safety: keeps gauge

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Reference: stock rail mounting

German Railways

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Unistar HR: stock rail mounting

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Reference: stock rail mounting

Metro Essen, Germany

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Unistar HR: adjacent sleeper mounting

Fixation to adjacent sleepers or on

concrete slab
Low budget version
For use in Metro systems in combination
with gauge plates, concrete ties or direct
fixation track
For use in yards

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Unistar HR: adjacent sleeper mounting

Metro Copenhagen, Denmark

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Unistar HR: DF mounting

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Unistar HR: sleeper mounting

Metro Paris, France

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Unistar HR: drive comparison

Electro-hydraulic drive

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Electro-mechanic drive

Unistar HR EM: adjacent sleeper mounting

Saudi Railway Organization, KSA

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Unistar HR EM: adjacent sleeper mounting

Saudi Railway Organization, KSA

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Unistar HR compact: budget version

Installation outside the gauge

Identical components as Unistar HR
Less flexibility
Less advantages
Same reliability
Lower price

Special version for yards:

Unistar HR compact OV: no integrated
locking, switch points secured by spring

Increased competitiveness

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Thank you
David Barragn
voestalpine SIGNALING Sainerholz GmbH
M: +49 15 12 92 61 101
david.barragan@voestalpine.com

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