Topic: Brake blocks

Image: Deutsche Bahn AG / Oliver Lang DB beschleunigt Lärmschutz im Güterverkehr

DB Cargo: after wagons, now locomotive fleet with quieter brakes

After all of its wagons, DB Cargo is now equipping all of its locomotives with silent brakes. By 2025, all 850 electric mainline locomotives will be running with quieter disc brakes. The German rail freight...Read more

04-05-2021|Comment|author: Majorie van Leijen

Majority of German freight wagons will now run with quiet brake blocks

According to RailWatch, a data company dealing with digitalisation in the rail freight sector, 99 per cent of the German freight wagons are now operating with quiet brake blocks. The conversion of the majority of...Read more

03-12-2020|Comment|author: Nikos Papatolios

SBB freight train, source: SBB Cargo International

Noise differentiated track access charges under review

The effect of noise differentiated track access charges (NDTAC) in Europe is under review. Since 2015, it is legally possible for infrastructure managers to include a malus or bonus in the track access charge for...Read more

09-04-2019|Comment|author: Mykola Zasiadko

Transformation risk due to composite brake blocks analysed

The European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) has formed a working group to study the effect and potential risks of composite brake blocks on wheels of railcars. This is in response to a report by...Read more

12-06-2018|Comment|author: Majorie van Leijen

Voestalpine’s RFID delivers digital efficiency

Freight wagons will become ‘virtually intelligent’ thanks to the application of Big Data – that’s the key message from one of the industry’s leading freight logisticians. Peter Boom, of Voestalpine Signaling, says infrastructures are in...Read more

07-11-2016|Comment|author: Simon Weedy