JUNAKALUSTO, Finland, has awarded a contract to Stadler to overhaul 78 motor and 117 trailer bogies running under four-car Flirt EMUs which Stadler delivered to Finland between 2009 and 2014.
SPANISH companies involved in the development and certification of the OGI automatic gauge-changing system have completed the first phase of dynamic testing. The OGI bogies are designed for use on freight routes crossing the Spanish-French border where the track gauge changes from 1668mm to 1435mm.
THE Institute of Railway Research (IRR) at Britain’s University of Huddersfield has unveiled a new 150-tonne bogie test rig, which it says is the only one of its type in Europe. and inaugurated the Centre for Innovation in Rail.
NETHERLANDS Railways (NS) rolling stock maintenance subsidiary Nedtrain launched construction on a new overhaul and refurbishment workshop at its Haarlem facility on September 1.
The Fortescue Railway operates some of the longest and heaviest trains in the world, and in the seven years since it began hauling iron-ore across the deserts of the Pilbara region, it continues to push the technical boundaries of heavy-haul. Keith Barrow reports from Western Australia on the latest developments in Fortescue's unrelenting quest for greater efficiency and higher capacity.
STADLER Rail has approved a Forints 1bn ($US 3.5m) investment in the bogie overhaul facility at its Szolnok plant in Hungary which will enable the site to begin producing bogies for new trains.
AMSTED Rail is developing new designs of components to produce a bogie to meet the demand from Australian heavy-haul freight railways for 45-tonne axleload freight wagons, or even 50-tonne axleloads in the future.
Freight wagons remain the source of high levels of noise despite European legislation prohibiting the use of cast-iron brake blocks on new wagons. Dr Martin Toward, Dr Giacomo Squicciarini, and Professor David Thompson from the University of Southampton's Institute of Sound and Vibration Research look at current efforts to mitigate rolling noise and curve squeal from freight rolling stock.
SKF has unveiled a new wireless bogie condition monitoring system which remotely collects and processes data on vibration, temperature and speed from sensors mounted on the bogie.
UNITED Wagon Company (UWC), Russia, and Tatravagonka, Slovakia, have formed a joint venture company, Railway Casted Components (RCC), which will produce Barber bogie castings for 1520mm-gauge wagons.