Abstract: In a double frog for track crossings with two opposing noses that are realized in a common material block and to which a check rail with at least one guide surface for a wheel is assigned, the check rail region featuring the guide surface is separably fastened on a check rail mounting that is realized in one piece with the material block.
Abstract: In a railway switch with a main track and a branch track, in which one rail of each track is each configured as a tongue rail and movable into abutment on the respective stock rail, the stock rail comprises in the region of the abutment on the tongue rail a deviating course of the running edge and the running edge of the tongue rail comprises a curve progression, whose imaginary extension comprises an overcutting or an undercutting with the running edge of the stock rail.