Train Components Categories
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On-Board Traction, Power & Safety Equipment
This section covers the systems that deliver traction, manage on-board power and ensure safety on rail vehicles. These include HVAC units, current collectors and pantographs, batteries, fire detection and suppression systems, and related equipment used across passenger and freight rolling stock.
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- Alternative Traction Technologies
- Auxiliary Power
- Diesel Engines, Alternators & Generators
- Electronic Train Components
- EMC Shielding
- Fire Detection · Suppression
- Fuel Cells & Components
- Fuel Handling · Lubricants
- Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning (HVAC)
- Lighting · Safety Lighting
- On-Board Transformers, Inverters & Rectifiers
- Pantographs & Current Collectors
- Traction Cooling Equipment
- Traction Motors
- Train Batteries
- Train Converters
- Train Power Converters
- Train Speedometers · Safety
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Running Gear
Running gear includes all mechanical components that enable a train to run on the track, such as bogies, wheelsets, axles, bearings and suspension systems. These components support the vehicle’s weight, guide it safely along the rails and absorb forces during operation to ensure ride quality, stability and safety.
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Train Body Components
Train body components include structural elements such as doors, windows, panelling and roof sections, as well as smaller fittings and fixtures. This category also covers materials used in the construction and maintenance of train bodies, including adhesives, sealants, coatings and corrosion protection solutions.
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- Accessibility Equipment
- Buffers · Couplers · Drawgear
- Freight Train Loading · Discharge Components
- Freight Train Underframes
- Freight Wagon Bodies
- Gangways
- General Wagon Components
- Latching Systems · Handles · Hinges
- Minor Components
- Rolling Stock Materials
- Train Body Shells · Structural Parts
- Train Doors
- Train Part Forgings · Castings
- Train Windows
Train Components Documents
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Charcroft Electronics Achieves AS9120 Certification!
Charcroft Electronics are celebrating the achievement of the AS9120 Certification - thank you to all our staff for all your hard work in obt…
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ControlSafe™ Platforms
Delivering Fail-Safe Systems for Critical Rail Safety Applications. Leveraging over 30 years of expertise in developing highly reliable and …
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ASC Sensors Application Report: Alstom
Alstom is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of rail vehicles. Among other things, the company test the running dynamics and bogie str…
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WELDYX Master
High Performance Adhesive for Rail Vehicles. With WELDYX MASTER structural, high-strength and at the same time flexible and highly resistant…
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WELDYX Professional Series
The WELDYX Professional Series – High Performance Adhesives with Certified Quality! Hazard Level HL3. Approved for WELDYX professional 15. F…
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Testing and Managing Converter Power Stacks
Testing and managing converter power stacks can be a time consuming and laborious process. A new software tool allows the user to make chang…
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Switchable Gate Resistance
A unique feature of Amantys gate drives is the selectable switchable gate resistance: up to 63 values may be selected for each of Rg_on and …
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Power Converter Retrofit Solutions
Obsolescence of key components, such as IGBT modules, can cause serious problems for the train operator. AmePower and Amantys Power Electron…
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Product Shortform
Connectors, Cable Glands, Enclosures, Cable Assemblies, Speech & Communication Products and Connecting Systems. Telegärtner UK is a key sup…
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Rail Challenge No 1: Legacy System Upgrades
Challenge Charcroft to help you to overcome obstacles to designing upgrades for electronic systems in rolling stock or signalling. The flexi…
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Charcroft Accepts Any Challenge
It’s simple. At Charcroft, we accept any challenge and go the extra mile to find a solution. By providing specialist support when you need i…
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High Performance Ducting, Hose, and Connectors for the Locomotive Industry
Flexfab’s engineered, flexible connectors for locomotives are designed with technical fabrics and elastomers to provide flexibility and stre…
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Flexible Hoses for Passenger Rail
Flexfab offers a full range of flexible hoses for passenger rail for use in low and medium pressure applications. If you do not see what you…
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Reinforced Foam Panel (RFP) HVAC Ducting
Rigid composite HVAC ducting for rail vehicles offer advantages over traditional metal ducts by being: Lighter weight, Better thermally insu…
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Flexible Ducting and Connectors
Flexfab offers a full line of standard and custom flexible ducting and connectors for rail vehicles that conform to EN45545, NFPA130, and ot…
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Reinforced Thermoplastic Ducting
Flexfab delivers a wide range of reinforced thermoplastic ducting for rail vehicles to meet virtually any application or need. Customers acr…
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High-Performance Hoses, Ducts, and Connectors for Rail
Flexfab’s High-Performance Hoses, Ducts, and Connectors for Rail are enabling a new era of reliable, cost-efficient operation. Passenger sys…
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Railway Product Catalogue
Power supplies for railway applications developed and manufactured by MTM Power® offer unparalleled and trendsetting functionality and quali…
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Case Study: Reliable Power Supplies for Railway Applications
Reliable Power Supplies for Railway Applications. Take the example of a power supply which was used to drive an on-board Train Protection an…
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Lightweight Materials for Rail Vehicles
The less trains weigh, the more economical they are to run. Lightweight materials for rail vehicles are becoming more and more important for…
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Gear Case Complete Kits
PowerRail offers a complete line of truck parts and components, including complete GearCase and Seal kits.
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Siemens ICE4 Case Study
High safety and sustainability requirements by Siemens and the excellent adaptability of the Polarteknik product platform ensure a robust an…
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Interior Train Doors for Hitachi
Polarteknik was awarded with an IEP project from Hitachi to provide unnoticeable interior doors for trains. The doors should open and close …
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Acid Battery Water Level Indicator
PowerRail is now offering a simple solution for viewing water levels in Acid Storage Batteries.