Factsheet

EC-Certification of various types of railways
buffers and draw gears
Customer:
Schwab Verkehrstechnik AG
8200 Schaffhausen (Switzerland)
Project data:
• Various types of conventional and hydraulic buffers for freight wagons
• Various types of draw gears
• Automatic centre buffer couplers and towing couplers for recovery and rescue
Schwab Verkehrstechnik AG in Schaffhausen commissioned SCONRAIL with the
assessment and the EC certification of various types of railway buffers and draw
gears in accordance with the Technical Specification of Interoperability relating to
the subsystem „rolling stock - freight wagons“ of the trans-European conventional
rail system TSI CR WAGON. This examination was performed in accordance with
Module B and Module D of the TSI.
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Automatic center buffer couplers and towing couplers for recovery and rescue are
examined and certified in accordance with the technical specification relating to the
„rolling-stock“ sub-system of the trans-European high-speed rail system TSI HS
RST.
SCONRAIL disposes of the respective technical experts and an efficient organisation in order to achieve a certification in a short time. The early involvement of the
certification body by the customer contributed to the reduction of the cycle time to
the minimum; time consuming iterations have been avoided.
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Contact:
Bernhard Huber
bernhard.huber@sconrail.ch
Phone: +41 52 262 33 31
Accredited inspection body and certification body
for railway constituents and subsystems
Certification Body for ECM
Notified Body Interoperability NB 2337
SCONRAIL Ltd.
Zuercherstrasse 41
8400 Winterthur, Switzerland
Phone: +41 52 262 33 30
certify@sconrail.ch
www.sconrail.ch
SCONRAIL UK Limited
Chancery House, St Nicholas Way
Sutton, Surrey, England SM1 1JB
Phone: +44 20 8652 1890
certify@sconrail.com
www.sconrail.com
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