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Single wagon transport

Do you know what single wagon transport is and what role it plays in Austria? Why they are critical for success [...]
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Industrial sidings

Do you know what industrial sidings are needed for? Do you know how they help make freight transport more [...]
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What does condition-based maintenance...

Rail vehicles are like cars: they have to be taken to the workshop where certain maintenance and repair work is [...]
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Pit stop for freight wagons to...

As Rail Cargo connects European urban areas and ports to prospering economic centres in Russia, Turkey and to [...]
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Train Running Checkpoints

We leave nothing to chance. We pull out all the stops to ensure our customers’ goods reach their [...]
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Nightshift

When most people are sound asleep we move goods onto tracks and, train by train, from A to B. When night falls and [...]
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Driving right – saving energy

Fuel and thus energy can be reduced not only in the private sphere by anticipatory and constant driving with the [...]
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How does cross-border transport work?

Changing locomotives and drivers, different infrastructure, train protection systems, operating regulations, [...]
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Route class

Did you know that railway routes are divided into route classes? And why freight wagons must not exceed the [...]
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Special transport

Not only raw materials, cars or car parts, wood, steel, agricultural and chemical products travel by train – [...]
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Shunting

No trains can run without shunting. Every train is created through shunting. Find out why, how and where the [...]
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Brake test

Before every departure of a freight train, a brake test is carried out. But do you know why this is necessary and [...]
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Multimodality

Do you know what multimodality means? What challenges are associated with the term in the world of logistics? And [...]
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Interoperability

Do you know what interoperability means? What does the term have to do with bridge construction? And why is it so [...]
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Doppeltraktion
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Double heading

Do you know what “double heading” means? Or why multiple-unit traction can take different forms? Why [...]
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Block force measuring

Freight train brakes are not only vitally important when the train is running. Even when a train is parked, the [...]
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