Abstract: A railway car (100) for placing long rails onto a railway platform, includes a rear end (200) hitched to a rail transport car and a front end (400) and further including, on the rear end (200) thereof, at least one element (202a, 202b) for longitudinally removing a rail from a rail storage arranged on the rail transport car and at least one first element for driving the rail such as to move the rail to the front of the car. The first drive element takes up the rail between two motor-driven tracked trains, each including a tracked belt sent between two wheels, the tracked trains being provided such as to take a relative position in which the tracked belts face each other and the axles of the wheels are vertical.