Railway lift tables

Our ‘railway special’ lifting equipment is bespoke and meets your specifications as closely as possible. Atlas Lift designs it for the manufacture and maintenance of rolling stock: coaches, power cars, passenger trainsets and metro trains. A manufacturer since the late 1960s, Atlas Lift builds it at its factory in Saintes (Charente-Maritime).

Pit-mounted electro-hydraulic lift table with a section of railway track, bringing axles to height for inspectors
Electro-hydraulic lift table recessed in a pit with a section of railway track. Bringing axles to height in front of inspectors

For which operations?

  • bringing operators to the right height alongside coaches and power cars;
  • accessing and working on the roof;
  • removing and refitting bogies, air-conditioning units and motors;
  • overhauling axles, in a pit between the rails;
  • treating and maintaining bodysides.

Our railway solutions

  • Pit-mounted lift table: recessed into the floor with a section of railway track, it brings axles up to the right height in front of the inspectors.
  • Rail-mounted mobile table: it travels along the track for removing and refitting motor bogies. Example: 6 tonnes, 2.50 x 1.90 m platform, 1.12 m travel, 2 hydraulic cylinders. See the project
  • Lifting platforms for passenger trainsets: access to the bodysides, train nose and roof, with movement along 3 axes. Example: 500 daN, 8.75 x 6 m platform, 3.05 m travel, 1.10 m guardrail, emergency hand pump. See the project
  • Painting gantries: 10 electro-hydraulic column gantries, rail-mounted, for one or two operators around a metro train, with an anti-crush and anti-collision plate.
  • Turntable for rotating axles: from 2 m to over 6 m in diameter, from 1 to over 20 tonnes. Recent example: a large-diameter turntable for the future Abidjan metro. Read the article
  • Dock lift for a rail maintenance centre: transferring pallet trucks from one level to another, 1,500 kg, 3 x 1.50 m platform. See how it was made

From specification to acceptance

Every project is carried out with our design office: exchange of drawings, videos of the equipment in motion, risk analyses and an FMECA study. Before dispatch, a factory acceptance test lets you check with us that your equipment works properly and complies with requirements. We also have in-depth expertise in the CE certification of equipment for lifting persons, including above 3 metres.

Our equipment is supplied to major European players in railway manufacturing and installed in France and abroad. Our railway customers include the SNCF group, the RATP group and CIM GROUP.

Your railway project