Wascosa has opened a new headquarters in Desenzano del Garda, roughly 40 kilometres from Verona. Among the most significant innovations brought by the company’s new facility is the Modular Freight Wagon System, a lighter, updated...Read more
In just over a year, a new body will take on responsibility for much of the running of Britain’s railways. The chief executive of the Rail Freight Group, Maggie Simpson, believes that bringing the rail...Read more
A rake of pristine modular wagons, so box fresh they almost have the wrapping paper still on them, and a locomotive so strikingly liveried that one feared to touch the almost dry paint. All that...Read more
Wascosa has handed over 45 new EAMNOS wagons to the German railway undertaking Havelländische Eisenbahn (HVLE). The wagons were built at Greenbrier in Poland. The colourful blue and orange wagons were handed over in Wustermark,...Read more
Lucerne-based Wascosa secured a major wagon leasing contract with Network Rail. The Swiss leasing company will supply 570 wagons to the UK infrastructure management agency. The order will be fulfilled by Greenbrier Europe, who have...Read more
Ten years ago, manufacterer Wascosa presented its first modular freight wagon. Recently, the 500th wagon was delivered. Today, the trend is firmly towards modular freight wagons, the company says, adding that this was much different...Read more
Wascosa has developed a new tank wagon for acrylonitrile, a dangerous good. The newly developed wagon is setting new standards in terms of safety and wagon design. Hundred new wagons will be delivered by the...Read more
With the support of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), the freight wagon leasing company Wascosa and SAVVY Telematic Systems conducted a research project to analyse flat spot detection. Flat spots generate a...Read more
Swiss wagon leasing firm Wascosa has bought the fleet of Hamburg-based Kurt Nitzer KG. It includes about 200 chemical and pressurized gas tank cars.
This latest deal follows Wascosa’s recent purchase of a further 1,700 wagons...Read more
Wascosa, the Switzerland-based freight wagon leasing firm, is expanding its fleet with the purchase of 1,700 new wagons.
This investment in new rolling stock will also further bring down the average age of its fleet...Read more
Swiss-based rail freight wagon lease company Wascosa has got together with chemicals’ specialist BASF and Belgian transport manufacturers van Hool to develop an innovative new flexible system for transporting chemical products. The ‘flex freight system’...Read more
