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French SNCF and RFF experience the longer freight train of Europe
Convoy almost 1,500 meters on the line between Sibelin, near Lyon, and Nimes
January 21, 2014
Railway group French SNCF and Réseau Ferré de France (RFF), the public society that possesses and manages railway infrastructures of France, have announced to have place in circulation experimentally the longest freight train of Europe having introduced a long . The initiative has happened in the within of the European project Marathon, started in 2013, that it has the objective to characterize solutions in order to operate the longer trains, heavier and fastest ones. Besides SNCF and RFF, to the 14 project partner participates to others.
SNCF and RFF have explained that, by a technical point of view, the convoy is lead with the employment of a remote-controlled system that allows to connect the locomotive of head operated from a machinist with the locomotive without situated machinist to the center of the train. The two societies have emphasized that with the new train it will be possible to transport until 70 cars instead of the 35 transported by a conventional train of 750 meters.
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Railway group French SNCF and Réseau Ferré de France (RFF), the public society that possesses and manages railway infrastructures of France, have announced to have place in circulation experimentally the longest freight train of Europe having introduced a long . The initiative has happened in the within of the European project Marathon, started in 2013, that it has the objective to characterize solutions in order to operate the longer trains, heavier and fastest ones. Besides SNCF and RFF, to the 14 project partner participates to others.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
