Fastening Systems
Pandrol's fastening systems include rail track components that secure rail to sleeper across every track type and condition, from fasteners and baseplates to embedded rail and vibration-damping pads. As a trusted rail fastening systems supplier to a large portion of the world's rail networks, Pandrol builds for safety, longevity and ease of installation.
Fastening Systems
Rail fastening systems do more than hold rail to sleeper. They control stiffness, manage load distribution, and protect the track structure across decades of service. Getting it right matters on every application – from heavy haul lines carrying 40-tonne axle loads, to high-speed routes where trains run at over 250 km/h. At Pandrol, we’ve been engineering rail fastening components for over 85 years. Our range covers every major track form – concrete, timber, composite, steel, pre-cast block, and ballastless slab – and is trusted by operators across more than 100 countries. Whatever your application, there is a Pandrol system proven in the field. Within our rail fastening systems range you will find six sub-categories: Fasteners, Special Baseplates, Booted Blocks, Embedded Rail, Pads and Mats, and Fastening Equipment. Each addresses a specific aspect of track design and maintenance – browse the range below to find your solution.
Rail fastening system portfolio
Pandrol has been engineering rail fastening systems for more than 85 years. Our fastenings are in service on networks in more than 100 countries, across heavy haul, mainline, high speed, metro and light rail. Pandrol's fastenings range from the original Pandrol clip through to e-Clip, Fastclip, Vanguard, Nabla and SD. Alongside them, we make the resilient systems that sit under and around the rail: under-sleeper pads, under-ballast mats, Floating Slab Mat, FTrack and QTrack, plus the Clip Driver range for automated installation.
With one of the widest offers in the industry, we help you identify the right combination for your network and the conditions in which it operates. Our range covers threaded and threadless systems for concrete, timber, composite and steel sleepers and slab track. Tropical humidity, sub-zero winters and a coastal line, with corrosive salt air, are three different problems which need tailored solutions.
Behind every Pandrol system, engineers and field teams work alongside you from the earliest design questions through the everyday realities of an operating track, staying reachable when the track is running, not only when the contract is signed.
Rail infrastructure is a decades-long investment. Our systems are designed to optimise the cost and availability of your track across its full lifecycle - delivering reliable performance under traffic, predictable maintenance windows, and long service intervals, decade after decade.
Embedded solutions
Embedded rail systems integrate the rail directly into a concrete or asphalt structure, making them...
Fasteners
Pandrol's clip-based rail fasteners set the industry standard for rail fastening across ballasted and non-ballasted...
Resilient Pads & Mats
Rail pads, under-sleeper pads, and under-ballast mats control the stiffness and resilience of the track...
Special baseplates
Special rail baseplates provide engineered rail support where standard solutions are not suitable – including...
Discuss your Fastening Systems project with our team.
Did you know?
Pandrol has manufactured so many rail fastenings over its history that if you lined them all up, you would have enough to build a railway track that stretches all the way from the Earth to the Moon (and we are currently working on the return trip!).