by blaettler_redaktion | Feb 5, 2024 | Sites
On 31 January 2024, the rail sector presents the siding charter to the representative of the German government in Berlin. Signed by 56 associations across Europe, the initiative sets out concrete measures for the successful transformation of...
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by blaettler_redaktion | Dec 15, 2023 | Financing, Innovation, Politics
Without digital automatic coupling (DAC) there is no digitalisation and without digitalisation there is no competitiveness. This is how the modernisation of the rail freight sector could be described. However, it’s not quite that simple....
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by cargorail-admin | Aug 25, 2023 | Freight Transport Industry, Interoperability
The publicly published information on the freight train derailment in the Gotthard Base Tunnel indicates a broken wheel on the derailed train. Overloading or material defects are under consideration as possible causes of the failure. What...
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by cargorail-admin | Aug 17, 2023 | Freight Transport Industry
On 10 August 2023, a freight train derailed in the Gotthard Base Tunnel. A few minutes before entering the tunnel through the south portal, the train was inspected by automatic wayside train monitoring systems (WTMSs). According to the monitoring...
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by blaettler_redaktion | May 30, 2023 | Financing, Freight Transport Industry, Innovation, Politics
We have supported the digital automatic coupler (DAK) since its beginnings. That is why we are involved in the international umbrella organisation of wagon keepers UIP, the European DAC Delivery Programme (EDDP) and the Swiss DAK migration...
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