How to protect sensitive trackside equipment

Given the ongoing investments in rail infrastructure, it’s important to develop, adapt and design new ways of sealing shelters, rail control cabinets, and enclosures. It’s not surprising modern technology has taken over. Owners want to secure and protect expensive equipment and systems in line with the highest safety standards. At the same time, the seals have to be cost-efficient and easy to use.

The railway industry is now specifying the types of cable and pipe entry sealing solutions as the new standard, typically mechanical transits. This sealing solution provides cable retention and certified protection against risk factors. It also enables cost-efficiency by adapting cables and pipes of varying sizes to allow for built-in capacity for future models.

Leading sealing suppliers know rail owners and cabinet manufactures want to ensure safe and ongoing operations to avoid outages and downtime. They offer full design services and support.

Using seals that allow routing of pre-terminated cables through each opening is both area-efficient and time-efficient. Conventional cable glands require a lot of space and one hole for each cable and a new opening for each additional cable. And each opening is a potential leak path.