Abstract: In a rolling mill train for producing wire, a billet is passed from a furnace to a single-core roughing train and then into a distributor for directing the rolled material into a number of heat-insulated storage channels. At the opposite end of each channel an intermediate train is arranged immediately followed in rectilinear alignment by a finishing train so that the rolled material passes in a straight line directly from the storage channel through the intermediate and finishing train for forming the finished wire.