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SBB Cargo
November 15, 2022
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Technology
DAC technology ready, but challenges remain for European rollout
The digital automatic coupler is reaching maturity, with plans forming to roll out the technology across hundreds of thousands of wagons used across Europe. Simon Artymiuk and David Burroughs consider progress, and the challenges still facing this ambitious project.
September 28, 2022
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Freight
SBB launches Swiss Cargo Logistics to revitalise rail freight
SBB aims to increase freight traffic by 60% by 2050.
July 15, 2022
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Locomotives
SBB Cargo to lease another 35 Vectron locomotives
Delivery of the locomotives will take place in 2024.
June 27, 2022
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Technology
SNCF to test Digital Automatic Coupling
Trials will take place in October this year.
April 14, 2022
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Technology
Out with the old, in with the new
The development of the Digital Automatic Coupler is progressing to the testing stage, with trials underway or planned across Europe. David Burroughs talks to the suppliers manufacturing the couplers to see how they have been developed and asks what the benefits of integration will be.
September 29, 2021
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Freight
Swiss to fit digital couplers to all freight wagons and locomotives
Federal Office of Transport outlines DAC intentions.
December 7, 2020
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Freight
Voith to deliver additional CargoFlex couplers to SBB Cargo
SBB Cargo has ordered another 206 rail-car and 16 hybrid CargoFlex couplers from Voith, which will enable the automatic coupling of all its intermodal freight services in Switzerland from June 2021.
September 23, 2020
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Technology
Rail Vision and Knorr-Bremse trial remote shunting system
TECHNOLOGY start-up Rail Vision, Israel, in collaboration with Knorr-Bremse, has begun testing a new remote control shunting system on several shunting locomotives employed by Swiss freight operator SBB Cargo.
September 15, 2020
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Financial
SBB records SFr 479m loss as passenger numbers drop
SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has announced a loss of SFr 479m ($US 528.5m) for the first half of 2020, down from a profit of SFr 279m over the same period last year, as the effects of Covid-19 saw passenger numbers drop by a third over the period.
July 24, 2020
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Fleet
Testing and development of digital automatic couplings launched
SHIFT2RAIL (S2R) and a consortium led by German Rail (DB) have launched two connected projects to develop and test digital automatic couplings (DAC) on freight wagons. Both projects aim to select a single solution for use across Europe.
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