Hitachi Rail is installing its cutting-edge live monitoring solution across Great Western Railway's high-speed fleet of 93 intercity trains, in a world-first for digital maintenance. This technology will boost fleet availability by over 100 days per year. Wireless sensors are being attached to live monitor the entire wheelsets and bogies, allowing real-time data of gearboxes, traction motors, bearings and wheels.
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A new safety scheme has launched which will fit more than 15,000 of Britains freight locomotives and wagons with technology that enables the condition of wheelsets - a pair of wheels mounted on an axle - to be monitored in real-time.
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