CONTITECH: Air spring systems designed for use in extremely hot or cold conditions in Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan will be showcased on the ContiTech stand.
These will include the newly-developed K air spring designed to withstand temperatures as low as -50°C.
ContiTech will also be presenting air actuators for pantographs, on-train water hoses and highlighting its global network of partners providing support services to customers.
FRANCE: The liberalisation of the rail market offers new opportunities for SNCF Voyageurs’ rolling stock maintenance and engineering subsidiary Masteris, according to its CEO Remi Peltier, who told Railway Gazette International that ’we want to be present for these opportunities’. SNCF established Masteris in 2009 to ...
One of the key messages of InnoTrans 2024 was that railways need to focus on delivery to justify the scale of investment and maintain the political support the industry is looking for.
EUROPE: A ‘groundbreaking’ concept for high-capacity overnight trains has been unveiled by Škoda Group. Developed by designers in the Austrian arm of the company, the ‘Sleep in Motion’ proposal features a double-deck coach with pairs of single-berth cubicles stacked one above the other on each side of ...
