METRANS equips wagon fleet with composite brakes
Triggered by the German government’s ban on noisy wagons, METRANS has upgraded its entire 3,000 container wagons fleet with ‘whispering’ brakes. The harder material of…
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…
Quiet brakes for almost all freight wagons the Netherlands in 2025
By 2025, around 95 percent of the wagons of all freight trains running in the Netherlands will be equipped with quiet brake blocks. This is…