30.11.2020
Artikel Nummer: 34316
Quiet brakes for 30,000 wagons
VTG has refurbished all the rail wagons it deploys in Germany and Switzerland with so-called quiet brake blocks. Now only composite or disk brakes will be used.
After several years of work, the conversion programme will be concluded in time for the change of timetable on 13 December 2020 and before the law on the protection from rail noise comes into effect. This law forbids the use of noisy freight wagons.
VTG alone has refurbished almost 30,000 wagons and invested millions of euros in the project. “Installing these quiet brake pads was a huge task – financially as well as in terms of organisation,” VTG said. (ben)