Siemens Mobility and Railpool plan locomotive service hub in Verona

Siemens Mobility, a part of Siemens specialising successful obstruction transport, and Railpool, a obstruction conveyance rental company, are joining forces to found a locomotive work hub successful Verona, Italy.

The hub, planned for a 15,000m2 tract to beryllium acquired from Consorzio ZAI nether a preliminary agreement, volition beryllium situated wrong the Verona Interporto logistics hub, Italy's largest integrated postulation terminal.

This inaugural involves a associated concern of astir €20m ($23.4m), aiming to make an "open access" installation for maintaining locomotives from assorted manufacturers.

The projected locomotive work hub volition dwell of 5 tracks dedicated to airy attraction and 1 way equipped with a instrumentality lathe.

The hub is designed to enactment investigating and attraction of some Multisystem (MS) and Direct Current (DC) locomotives, ensuring compatibility with each large European signalling systems.

Siemens Mobility and Railpool task a important summation successful obstruction transport by 2032, coinciding with the opening of the Brenner Base Tunnel, which is expected to treble obstruction capableness crossed the Alps.

Siemens Mobility CEO Michael Peter said: “Together with Railpool, we are strengthening obstruction freight connected the strategical Verona-Brenner corridor.

“This dedicated locomotive hub is equipped with state-of-the-art attraction exertion to springiness our customers maximum availability and efficiency. It volition enactment the displacement of freight from roadworthy to obstruction arsenic the Brenner Base Tunnel opens and go an important portion of our European depot and work network.”

Strategically located connected the Verona-Brenner corridor, the locomotive work hub volition absorption connected optimising lifecycle show and strategy availability. It volition supply services specified arsenic regular inspections and insignificant adjustments to guarantee trains are operationally ready.

This caller hub volition complement Siemens Mobility’s existing work centre successful Novara, which has been operational since 2015 on the Rhine-Alpine TEN-T corridor.

Siemens Mobility maintains implicit 100 work locations crossed much than 30 countries. Railpool intends to utilise its six in-house workshops and a warehouse with implicit 4,500 spare parts to heighten its work capabilities done this caller development.

Railpool CEO Torsten Lehnert said: “With our caller attraction hub successful Verona, we are strengthening our work web crossed Europe’s cardinal logistics corridors.

“This concern underscores our semipermanent committedness to delivering reliable, full-service locomotive leasing solutions that enactment the evolving needs of customers passim the continent.”