PJSC “Kryukovsky Railway Car Building Works“ became the first factory in Ukraine which got the right to manufacture freight cars for 1435 mm gauge, being fulfilling of corresponding technical specifications of interoperability TSI, applicable in the EU, this is reported by the railway transport news portal Railway Supply.

manufacturing freight cars for the 1435 mm gauge

In conformity with European standards, specialists of the factory have designed intermodal car Sggrss 80 for containers forwarding and built two prototypes which successfully were tested in EU on normal gauge routes.

Upon results the corresponding certificates were issued and registered at European Railway Agency (ERA), which conform fulfillment of all applicable requirements.

The new products allows «KRCBW» to expand sales markets and meet the needs of both EU companies and Ukrainian Railways and other Ukrainian operators operating on the 1435 mm gauge.

manufacturing freight cars for the 1435 mm gauge

The wagons were verified for operation on entire railway network of EU.

Railway Supply congratulates its colleagues – this is indeed a success! We look forward to seeing Ukrainian manufacturer’s railway cars on European tracks!

KRCBW today is a major transnational company, a unique facility of a mixed type where both freight and socially oriented transport are created and produced on a single production site – from freight cars to passenger cars, interregional and suburban electric trains, diesel trains, metro cars, and both freight and passenger cars.

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