Events / Videos / Pictures

First run "Scandinavian Loop"

September 2012: run in Hungary

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March 2012: Twelfth run of EuropeTrain - second run in Scandinavian winter

On 17 March the EuropeTrain returned to Minden after two weeks and ca. 13,500 km of successful operation in Germany, Denmark and Sweden combined without any trouble or incidents.

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"EuropeTrain in Slovakia"

Pictures of EuropeTrain in Slovakia a two-day operation in Slovakia, covering 800 km of Slovakian network during the 9th run (the second Eastern Loop to Poland).

Press Event First Austrian Transalpine loop on 9 September 2011 in Vienna

Austrian TV Report on EuropeTrain
Austrian TV Report on EuropeTrain
Mr Franz Seiser, Vorstand ÖBB-Holding AG
Mr Andreas Fuchs, Vostand Rail Cargo Austria AG
Mr Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, UIC Director General
from L to R: Mr Franz Seiser, Mr Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, Mr Andreas Fuchs
from L to R: Mr Franz Seiser, Mr Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, Mr Andreas Fuchs, Mr Libor Lochman, appointed new Executive Director of CER

Second french loop with press event in The Netherlands on 1 August in Amersfoort

Mr Paul van Lede, Chairman of KNV Rail Freight
Mr Johannes Gräber, Head of Business Segment Engineering Services (DB Systemtechnik), UIC Project Manager EuropeTrain
Mr Johan Ter Poorten, Secretary KNV Rail Freight
Mr Paul van Lede explains to a dutch radio reporter the difference between wheels braked with cast iron and with composite brake blocks.
EuropeTrain heading to France for the French loop which runs several times through Paris (Le Bourget), Marseille, Lyon and Metz.

Italian loop

Swiss loop

Schweiz aktuell vom 26.05.2011
 

Press Event in Berlin

DB video
http://www.deutschebahn.com/site/bahn/de/konzern/im__blickpunkt/fluessterbremse__20110408.html
EuropeTrain in Berlin on the 8th April for a press event
EuropeTrain in Berlin on the 8th April for a press event
Data logging system on a Sggmrs wagon
Data logging system on a Sggmrs
Data logging system on a Sggmrs wagon
EuropeTrain in Berlin
Professor Klaus-Dieter Scheurle, State Secretary for the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development at the press event in Berlin
Boogie of one of the Sggmrs wagons with mounted acceleration sensor
Dr. Karl-Friedrich Rausch, Member of DB ML AG Management Board responsible for Transportation and Logistics on the press event
From l. to r.: State Secretary Mr Scheuerle, Dr. Rausch and Mr Jean-Pierre Loubinoux (General Director of UIC)
From l. to r.: Mr Johannes Gräber (DB Systemtechnik), Mr. Loubinoux, Dr. Rausch, State Secretary Scheuerle standing in front of a wheelset with a LL block
LL Brake Block on a wheel
A sign somwhere on the train.
A wheelset with LL brake blocks
LL Brake Block on a wheel
A locomotive pulling the EuropeTrain

Noise measurements on the French loop

Noise measurements on the French loop

Stationary measurements

People working while a service stop in Minden
EuropeTrain in Minden

Scandinavian loop

Timetable to Kiruna (Sweden)
Train in Kiruna (Sweden) main station
Train in Kiruna (Sweden) main station
Somewhere on the way to Kiruna (Sweden)
Sundown in Sweden
Central Station in Kiruna
Locomotive from Green Cargo in front of the EuropeTrain

Start of EUROPETRAIN

Part of the project team (from l to r) : Johannes Gräber, Martin Knörr, Benjamin Büche, Eckhard Friebel, with train driver Thorsten Schneider celebrating the start of EuropeTrain
EuropeTrain departure from Minden