Topic: Transnet

New world record: 375 wagons on single train

A new record has been set in the category ‘freight train with the largest number of wagons’. The South African railway company Transnet SOC Limited broke its own and world record with the launch of...Read more

25-10-2019|1 comment|author: Majorie van Leijen

Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique (1910) Photo: Lucianf

Mozambique regains South African coal cargo service

Mozambique’s publicly owned port and rail company CMF has regained its rail freight service carrying coal from South Africa to the Port of Matola, in southern Mozambique, after it had been operated for twenty years...Read more

01-06-2018|Comment|author: Jose Gutierrez

Braking energy of diesel-hauled freight trains can be stored

Transnet is developing a system that recovers and reuses braking energy in diesel-hauled freight trains. The waste energy generated by braking applications on the unpowered axles of freight wagons can be captured and stored, resulting...Read more

11-09-2017|Comment|author: Majorie van Leijen