Tradition

In 1920, Heinrich Schörling, a senior engineer with the Straßenbahn Hannover, had already made his name with the construction of rail cleaning, rail moistening and equipment wagons for tram line operators in Europe, when he went into his own business with his special vehicle manufacture.

The Schörling Waggonbau GmbH&Co. in Hannover-Linden was the logical continuation of this success.

One revolutionary step was the development and construction of the rail cleaner with suction action which was patented as “System Schörling”.

The first vehicle of this type worldwide was delivered in 1938.

Also well known are the widely distributed rail grinding and curve lubrication vehicles, as well as the platform vehicles.

Numerous patents and licences to other countries led to widespread international recognition and importance.

The vehicle range for care and maintenance of rail tracks, points and overhead lines was extended continually.

In 1967, Schörling presented the first overhead line mounting vehicle with track guidance – the foundation of another worldwide success.

In the following years, Schörling also built various sizes of road cleaning and road sweeping vehicles, up to airfield apron sweeping units.

However, in the mid-1990s, they encountered economic difficulties.

The will and creativity of some employees was strong, the demand for customized special vehicles unbroken.

The tradition of well-known special and rail-road vehicles for public transport authorities has been kept since 1997 by the former Schörling production manager Albert Brock in his newly established company, now named Schörling-Brock GmbH.

2007 an investor was taking over the company, and one of the general managers of Schörling-Brock, Mr. Heinrich Scheiter & partner founded the SCHÖRLING RAIL TECH GMBH, Sehnde.

Milestones are the further development of the road rail drive units (they´ll mount also on "exotic vehicles"), overheadline mounting vehicles, track bed cleaning vehicles and rail vehicles.

At our location we realize services and repairs for road rail vehicles of various manufacturers as well.