SKF has unveiled a new wireless bogie condition monitoring system which remotely collects and processes data on vibration, temperature and speed from sensors mounted on the bogie.

UNITED Wagon Company (UWC), Russia, and Tatravagonka, Slovakia, have formed a joint venture company, Railway Casted Components (RCC), which will produce Barber bogie castings for 1520mm-gauge wagons.

TRIALS have started in South Africa with three locomotives fitted with a system called Jika passive hydraulic steering (PHS) which is aimed at trebling the life of locomotive wheels and reducing track wear by 60%.

BOMBARDIER today broke ground on the construction of a new bogie production site in Siegen, Germany.