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DEDICATED FACILITIES AND
EXCEPTIONAL EXPERIENCE
BACKED BY INVESTMENT IN THE
LATEST PLANT AND MACHINERY

A total service embracing everything
from complex locomotive bogies to simple
freight wheelsets.


BOGIES

Wabtec Rail undertakes the overhaul, refurbishment and conversion of all types of locomotive, passenger rolling stock and freight wagon bogies. We are able to offer our customers a fully comprehensive service with the overhaul of the wheelsets, brake equipment, suspension systems and dampers undertaken in-house at our Doncaster Works.

We are able to undertake the repair of damaged and fractured bogie frames. Our Doncaster Works is fully equipped for carrying out shot blasting, non-destructive testing and repainting of bogies.

WHEELSETS

Wabtec Rail is one of the UK’s leading overhaulers of railway wheelsets. At our Doncaster Works we are able to undertake the overhaul of all types of locomotive, passenger rolling stock and freight wagon wheelsets. Work carried out includes the reprofiling of wheelsets, rewheeling, renewal of tyres, axles and bearings, overhaul of suspension tubes and axleboxes and the overhaul of final drive gearboxes.

To ensure no axle flaws or fractures are present, integrity checks are taken using ultrasonic, magnetic particle or eddy current testing. As with all of our services, safety is always our utmost priority.

FACILITIES

Wabtec Rail’s bogie and wheelset overhaul shops are equipped with the most up to date plant and machinery including a Hegenscheidt PM190 CNC controlled wheelset gauging and machining centre. The PM190 undertakes a pre-machining inspection and gauging of the wheelset prior to reprofiling or rewheeling, so maximising wheelset life.

Our wheelshop is also equipped with CNC controlled axle lathes, vertical borers, wheel presses, wheelset balancing machines, axle UAT, MPI and eddy current testing plant.

All finished wheelsets and bogies can be repainted at our specialist painting booths using the latest surface coating technologies.

SPECIFICATIONS

Our wheelset and bogie overhaul activities are supported by our in-house teams of experienced engineers. Located at our Doncaster Works, engineers are able to develop and produce bogie and wheelset overhaul and repair procedures and specifications and arrange for their certification.

Wabtec Rail’s engineers are able to offer to our customers the analysis and development of specifications such that ongoing life cycle costs are reduced through reduced overhaul costs, extended overhaul periodicies and increased reliability.

FLEET MANAGEMENT

Wabtec Rail can provide a total bogie and wheelset management package to our customers. As is currently provided to train operators and rolling stock owners, this service can embrace managing the customer’s float of bogies and wheelsets, carrying out their overhaul and repair and managing the collection and redelivery of the bogies to the train maintainer’s facility.

TOTAL CAPABILITY

Whatever the assignment, our wheelset and bogie customers enjoy a service that draws on an exceptionally wide range of expertise – repair, maintenance and overhaul of locomotives, passenger rolling stock (including refurbishment programmes), air conditioning, door systems and components of all types.

Wabtec Rail Limited, PO Box 400, Hexthorpe Road, Doncaster, DN1 1SL Tel +44 (0) 1302 340700, Fax +44 (0) 1302 790058, Email: wabtecrail@wabtec.com