Improved safety through derailment detectors

A full tank car was deliberately derailed by Knorr-Bremse in Berlin to demonstrate the effectiveness of the latest generation of derailment detectors.

Derailments at the rear of a train often remain undetected, and the derailed cars can be dragged along the track for several kilometers. When a set of points is reached a serious accident can result, but in any case derailed cars damage the rails and track bed and can cause line closures.

This is why Knorr-Bremse has developed a new generation of derailment detectors that sense when a derailment occurs and automatically bring the train to a halt.