ROLLING STOCK TESTING LABORATORY

The Rolling Stock Testing Laboratory carries out tests as well scientific and research work on all kinds of rail vehicles:

• Locomotives,
• Articulated trains,
• Rail buses,
• Passenger and freight cars,
• Special purpose vehicles, including those for railway infrastructure construction and maintenance,
• Underground train cars,
• Trams.

The Rolling Stock Testing Laboratory:

• The full range of rail vehicle tests - necessary to obtain:
  • A railway vehicle type approval certificate issued by the Office for Rail Transport (UTK),
  • A TSI requirements compliance certificate issued by the Notified Unit,
• Full-scale crash tests,
• Measurement of the noise and vibration caused in the environment by moving vehicles.

The Rolling Stock Testing Laboratory has specialised test facilities:

• Testing ground for crash tests,
• Test stand for safety tests during pushing through inverted curves,
• Wheel sets for measuring Y and Q contact forces (EBA approved),
• Mobile measuring laboratories cars,
• Test stand for measuring car anti-torque,
• Test buffing stand for measuring stress during crashes (Vmax: 40km/h),
• Stands for stationary and kinetic brake tests, including run tests on the St. Gotthard Pass, complete assemblies on vehicles, individual brake components and their common operation in a train,
• Test stand for checking friction characteristics of brake components (a dynamometer homologated at UIC),
• Stand for measuring external noise - according to the TSI NOI requirements,
  
• Stands for measuring illumination intensity, noise, vibrations and temperature inside vehicles.

Research procedures