13.01.2025
Artikel Nummer: 51813
Sweden’s heaviest freight train tests DAC
A Green Cargo test train consists of up to 40 freight wagons, of which two pairs of wagons have been equipped with DAC from different manufacturers. It transports steel slabs daily over 1,000 km from an SSAB steel mill in Lulea to a production facility in Domnarvet, Borlänge (all Sweden).
With train weights of up to 3,800 t, it is considered the heaviest freight train outside ore transport in Sweden.
Green Cargo will analyse how the couplers perform over time under extreme winter conditions and in challenging terrain, including in northern Sweden, in the two-year tests. The trials are part of the European DAC delivery programme to introduce fully DAC-equipped trains in Europe from 2026/2027 onwards. (ben)