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Mercitalia Rail has put in exercise trains until 2.200 tons of rimorchiabile mass
Services dedicated to the food industry and iron worker
July 14, 2017
Mercitalia Rail, the railway carrier cargo of the group Italian Railroads of the State, has announced to have already has put in exercise national and international complete trains until 2.200 tons of rimorchiabile mass to service of the food industry (cereals) and iron worker.
In particular, for the transport of the cereals the company is carrying out trains from 2.200 tons from the ports of the Adriatic north to the Po plain and trains from 2.000 tons in arrival from the east Europe, via Villa Opicina (Trieste), while for the produced ones iron and steel it has activated international trains from 2.000 tons from the Po plain to Germany via Uproar.
Specifying that in Italy the maximum rimorchiabile mass established from the PGOS (General Preface to the Timetable of Service) it is fixed in 1.600 tons, with limitations due case by chance to the performance of the type of locomotive and to the characteristics of the line, Mercitalia Rail it has remembered that however Italian Railway Net has activated in recent months of the technical tables kinsmen with the railway enterprises from which is gushed an action plan in order to allow the circulation of advanced trains with the 2,000 tons on some lines of the Po plain and on the connections to the passes.
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