Company SKD TRADE, as one of Emil Kolben’s followers, proudly carries the legacy of the exceptional engineering work of famous ČKD for 25 years. Maintaining top quality and the constant development of innovations are reflected in the satisfaction of customers who can rely on SKD TRADEs‘ service and spare parts. Another milestone has been added…
Siemens Mobility and Siemens Energy have signed a memorandum of cooperation on the joint development and offer of hydrogen systems for railway transport. The aim of the project is to jointly develop modern comprehensively solved hydrogen technologies for railway transport, including infrastructure and vehicle part, and thus support the decarbonization of transport. In the next…
IGW has become a gearboxes supplier to the Turkish company Bozankaya, which has been very active in recent years in seeking contracts in Romania. During this year Bozankaya managed to obtain contracts for the supply of 21 trams for city of Timisoara with an option for another 19 cars and for 16 cars for city…
Very recent topic in rolling stock is to increase safety of vehicle service. This topic is solved by European strategy ERTMS/ETCS. In scope of this strategy are current tracks equipped by stationary ETCS units and as the opposite driving vehicles are equipped by mobile ETSC units. During recent period AV R&D successfully continues in delivery…
Výzkumný Ústav Železniční, a.s. (VUZ) by Decision 7/2020 of the Czech Office for Standards, Metrology and Testing, of 9th July, 2020, obtained the authorization under the Directive (EU) 2016/797 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Interoperability of the rail system within the European Union. The Czech Republic thus confirmed its position…
In mid-September, with the participation of the end customer – the Austrian national carrier Österreichische Bundesbahnen – received the first pieces for the ÖBB DANI project. “We are pleased that this project deepens our long-term and successful cooperation with Siemens. For DAKO-CZ, this order is exceptional in because it is historically the first order for…
In September 2020, ZKL Group completed the certification of the innovated axle roller bearing set WJ/WJP 130×240 for freight wagons. These modern bearings for rail transport are of a high safety and reliability, improved energy efficiency and lower maintenance costs for bogie Y25 application. As part of the implementation of the requirements of Technical Pillar…
A new wheelset type was prepared by BONATRANS in Bohumín for CZ LOKO, its traditional customer and one of the most important manufacturers of shunting locomotives in Europe. It can be used in two-axle locomotives Class 719.7, four-axle locomotives Class 744.0 and 744.1, but mainly in all newly prepared CZ LOKO locomotives. The new innovative…
Despite of extensive measures the VÚKV testing laboratory fulfils its obligations and realizes the tests at foreign customers. Some rail vehicle tests for important customers in Switzerland, Poland and Finland were carried out in last months this year. Certainly, all the tests were carried out with regards to prevalent epidemiologic situation under high safety measures…
On 19 October 2020, the world’s first freight train successfully controlled by Czech ATO (Automatic Train Operation) system of AŽD company under the supervision of ETCS (European Train Control System) ran on the Swiss Sierre-Sion line. The uniqueness of this milestone is in the connection of ATO onboard and the dispatcher’s control system, which provides…