Common interface
Future-proof rail fastening for non-ballasted track with Pandrol's Common Interface fastening system. Our solution fits a standard kit of components into your sleepers or pre-cast concrete slab during casting, creating a single slab track fastening footprint that accommodates any Pandrol Common Interface fastening system, so your track stays ready for whatever comes next.
What are Common interface products and how do they work?
The Pandrol Common Interface system is a non-ballasted track baseplate system that gives you a single connection point for a range of direct and indirect fastening assemblies. A standard kit of threaded dowels and a construction plate is moulded into the concrete surface when the sleeper or slab is pre-cast. These parts stay in place permanently, forming the common connection between the pre-cast concrete and whichever fastening assembly you choose.
One base accommodates three fastening systems: FCA, DFC and Vanguard, allowing you to swap the Common Interface fastening system without replacing the whole track. This is particularly useful as cities grow and transport networks expand requiring different noise and vibration mitigation requirements.
Future-proof rail fastening: swap fastening systems without modifying or replacing the whole track when vibration requirements change.
Simplify design and stock: the same pre-cast profile works across every fastening system in the Common Interface fastening system range.
Product benefits
Versatile, safe and reliable
Move between FCA, DFC and Vanguard on one common base to suit changing performance needs, all with the safety, reliability and durability of a double resilience baseplate system.
Cost effective
Replace only the fastening system, not the whole track. That means real savings and far less disruption to your network.
Easy installation and maintenance
Wide vertical and lateral adjustment is built in, so installation and ongoing maintenance stay straightforward.
Overview
The DFC Common Interface offers all the advantages of a double resilience Fastclip baseplate system in terms of safety, reliability and durability. It shares the same common base as Fastclip FCA and Vanguard, so it's fully interchangeable within the range without changing the substrate. It's an indirect rail holding system with two separate pads for high sound, vibration and electrical insulation, plus a clip park position for rapid clipping and unclipping. Static stiffness exceeds 16 MN/m, with a low-stiffness option of 16-25 MN/m for applications where ground-borne vibration needs to stay low.
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Overview
The Fastclip FCA rail fastening with the Common Interface can be delivered to site fully pre-assembled and captive on the pre-cast concrete element, reducing installation time and cost. It suits all forms of pre-cast construction, including mono block, independent block and slab panel, whether cast-in or resiliently mounted. Static stiffness exceeds 40 kN/mm depending on CEN track category, with total gauge adjustment of 20 mm and vertical adjustment of +30 mm available through custom components.
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Overview
Vanguard Common Interface shares the same common base as Fastclip FCA and DFC, so it's fully interchangeable within the range without changing the substrate. Its indirect rail holding mechanism sits separate from the concrete, and a very low stiffness assembly of 5 MN/m delivers high levels of vibration isolation. Vertical corrections of up to 25 mm can be made in 1 mm intervals, with 10 mm total gauge adjustment, using minimal special tools.
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Related products
Below are other Pandrol products and equipment that can be integrated with this product. These complementary items can be used alongside this product, or are required for use with this product, or enhance the use of this product.
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Did you know?
There are more Pandrol clips in service than there are people in Europe. Over three-times the amount to be precise. We have 3 billion clips in use and Europe has a population of around 750 million.