2. The Company
In 2002 a team of skilled engineers, after a decade of common experience in rolling stock
development for a primary italian rolling stock manufacturer, decided to create an indipendent
engineering and consultancy company: New Rail Engineering.
The experience and the understanding of the founders, current members of New Rail
Engineering, from the beginning has allowed a high-level position, confirmed over the years by
the appreciation of customers for the quality of services in research and development of rolling
stock.
The company has built partnerships with well known specialists and realities and could, thus,
grow and expand the services offered with a wide performance range, consolidating an already
extensive experience.
Today New Rail Engineering can provide engineering and project management covering all phases
of the birth of a rail vehicle.
New Rail Engineering has acquired in the two decades of experience of its team, a deep
knowledge of Italian and foreign rolling stock and, more generally, of the railway system, logistics
and public transport.
Relationship and team oriented job approach allow the company to work with full autonomy and
responsibility or, elsewhere, in team with customer specialists, according to specific customer
needs.
3. Main services
New Rail Engineering has developed a more-than-a-decade experience with the implementation
of several projects of rolling stock, the participation in research projects at national and European
level and working in joint ventures with foreign partner(in Europe, South America and Japan).
This wealth of experience is available to our customers (industry, transport companies, rolling
stock owners, Notified Bodies) through our professional network to offer :
• Technical and business consultancy
• Styling
• Design
• Operative Support
• Rolling Stock Homologation RFI/ANSF and USTIF/MCTC
4. Consultancy
Our team is able to support the Customer (transportation company, rolling stock or
subcomponents manufacturer, infrastructure maintenance company) on technical, style and
commercial matters .
The constant attention to the evolution of railway technology and the activity of research caried
out by our team (New Rail Engineering has been awarded as Research Centre by Lombardy
Governement), the wide net of contacts and partnerships troughout all Europe, allow us to offer
toour Customers optimised and tailored solutions .
Services we can offer are different, being different the activity of our Customers (Transport
Companies, rolling stock owners, manufacturers).
5. Consultancy
TRANSPORT COMPANIES AND ROLLING STOCK OWNERS
New Rail Engineering can support its customers in :
• Strategic analisys;
• Innovative solutions R&D;
• Definition of Technical specifications;
• Feasibility studies and preliminary evaluations;
• expediting;
• Support for new and used vehicles purchasing
6. Consultancy
MANUFACTURERS
New Rail Engineering can support its industrial customers in :
• Strategic analisys;
• Innovative solutions R&D;
• Market analisys, definition of potential competitors and evaluation of their products;
• Verificaton of existing products compliance with tender requiremens and definition of the
modification needed to reach full compliance;
• Feasibility studies and preliminary evaluations;
• System architecture definition;
• Expediting;
• Translations into English, Gerrman, Spanish, French, Croatian, Polish, Romanian, Hebrew
7. Partnerships
The development of railway technology and the growing needs of users require increasingly
advanced technical stilistic and commercial solutions that require highly specialized expertise.
In order to provide a high level service in all areas of railway engineering, New Rail
Engineering has close partnerships with major companies with strong competence in
specialistic areas essential to identify the best solution on the market or to conceive an “ad
hoc” one:
• Style;
• Electric and Electronic System Engineering;
• Security devices, driver desk;
• Systems and solutions for electric and Diesel-Electric traction;
• Bogie design, bogie dynamic behaviuor (Adams Rail)
• Commercial relationships throuout all Europe that allowed to build a pool of companies,
able to answer proptly to all customer requirments;
8. SYSTEM ENGINEERING
The setting of the technical activities of a supply as complex and articulated as a railway
vehicle is essential for optimal development of the contract activities: design, construction,
purchase.
The technical framework of the contract must allow to highlight, from the earliest stages of
setting, the critical aspects in order that their effects on the activities can be properly
planned and managed.
This activity has, therefore, a fundamental role in the technical and economic success of the
job and is configured as an interdisciplinary link between the offer and project: it cannot be
be left to a soloist, as experienced and capable, but it requires different skills and therefore
different professionals. It is foundamental to involve in this activity Company’s key personnel
who will manage the project and also the ones who defined the offer.
Engineering
9. ENGINEERING FOR MANUFACTURE
New Rail Engineering has refined over the years and many projects, its experience and
engineering capability; so, linking system and muanufacturing engineering can offer to its
Customers, directly or by mean of its partner companies, a complete service starting from a
single subassembly to the whole vehicle:
• Bodyshell
• Finite Elements Analisys
• Mechanical subassemblies
• System integration
• Electric system
Engineering
10. New Rail Engineering is also able to support the structure of the customer and integrate it in
activities as:
• Expediting
• Prototype manufacturing
• Organisation of test activities at Customer plant or at Notified Bodies;
• Organisation of functional test activities at Customer plant or on line.
Operative support
11. Homologation
ITALIAN NATIONAL RAIL NETWORK HOMOLOGATION (ANSF / RFI)
The experience allows New Rail Engineering to support its customers in all phases of
technical admission of vehicles to Italian National Rail Network:
• Identification of the VIS who, for its carachteristics and competences, is the best to
manage the specific homologation;
• Realisation, verification of technical documents required for homologation;
• Interface with VIS;
• Suppot to the Customer in the fase of use and maintenance handbooks realisation (for
already existing vehicles)
On the other side, New Rail Engineering can offer to VIS high qualified personnel who can
work as External Evaluator.
12. Homologation
ITALIAN REGIONAL RAILWAYS (MINISTRY OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND TRANSPORT)
New Rail Engineering has to his credit innumerable projects and practices of acceptance with
the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport.
In this field New Rail Engineering can support its Customer in all the activities defined in
Reference Norm (Ministry Disposition 201/1983 and Law 28.10.2005 on “Fire safety in
tunnels”)
• Project approval
• Verification during manufacturing
• Homologation documents realisationa and verification
• Put into service
13. References
MAIN PROJECTS – ROLLING STOCK
• Night coaches Excelsior TRENITALIA (I)
• UIC-Z1 200km/h Push-and Pull coaches TRENITALIA (I)
• New Amenity Coach EUROTUNNEL (F-UK)
• New Amenity Coach – 2nd serie EUROTUNNEL (F-UK)
• Ballast Hoppew wagons GIF (E)
• Rail Carrier wagons GIF (E)
• Flat wagons GIF (E)
• Regional EMU MRP236 MET. RO. (I)
• Preliminary project for Hotel Train TRANSCONTINENTAL RAIL (USA)
• Preliminary project for narrow gauge DMU FERROVIE DELLA CALABRIA (I)
• Preliminary project for Malpensa Express EMU FNME (I)
• Orient Express New bogies VSOE (F)
• Orient Express new electric system VSOE (F)
• Panoramisation of ABe 8/8 EMU SSIF (I)
• Electric Locomotive VME 2024
• Diesel Locomotive VHD 2240
• Metric gauge EMU SSIF (I)
• Diesel Locomotive MetroBrescia (I)
• Regional coaches modernisation FSE (I)
• Transformation of Regional coaches into push-pull coaches FSE (I)
14. References
RUNNING PROJECTS – ROLLING STOCK
• EMU/DMU Modular Platform for mediu distance links
• Double Deck EMU/DMU Modular Platform
• Bimodal Vehicle for urban freight transport
• Bimodal Hybrid Tram - bus for Urban Transport (ZEV)
• Narrow gauge DME
• Diesel Hydraulic Shunting locomotive
• Diesel Electric Shunting locomotive
ITALIAN AND EUROPEAN RESEARCH PROJECTS
• FL.I.H.T.T. (FLexible Intermodal Horizontal Trans-shipment Tecniques) – EU
• TR.A.I. 2000 (TRasporti Automatizzati Intermodali) – Ministry of Industry
• Hycotrans – Development of structural composites for structural purposes on transport
vehicles) - EU
• Cost 339 Action “Small Containers” – EU
• COMBIVAN – development of a railway innovative high speed wagon IMI
