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Home » Rail/Transit » JR Freight to Install Brake-Monitoring Equipment
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JR Freight to Install Brake-Monitoring Equipment

The Brake ReportBy The Brake ReportJuly 14, 2020No Comments1 Min Read
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Source: Railway Gazette post

Tokyo – JR Freight will equip its fleet of 7,383 container cars with a braking- status-monitoring system.

Addition of this system is to eliminate the time-consuming need for staff to walk the length of every train and visually inspect each set of brakes prior to departure. Physical intervention would only be necessary if a faulty brake warning was displayed on the locomotive’s monitor screens.

JR Freight is leading the project, with JR East Consultants supervising development and manufacturing, KDDI supplying the communication modules and LPWA providing technical support.

Related post:
Knorr-Bremse Demos Freight-Train Automation

In the year ending April 1, 2018, JR Freight ran an average of 426 trains per day on a 75-route network totaling 7,962 km, using a fleet of 423 electric and 151 diesel locomotives as well as 42 freight EMUs.

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