Introduction

EURAILTEST is an Economic Interest Grouping that can offer its clients the chance to take advantage of the testing skills of RATP and SNCF Laboratories. It is these Laboratories that, by carrying out even the most demanding tests, enable the operators RATP and SNCF to maintain unrivalled standards of safety, reliability and performance.

EURAILTEST has played a part in most of the main railway projects in Europe and the world.

Below are you will find some examples and, opposite, more detailed fact sheets.

High speeds

• World rail speed record in May 2007: 574.8 km/h
• Korean high-speed train,
• AVE (Spanish high-speed train),
• EUROSTAR and THALYS high-speed trains,
• The AGV high-speed multiple unit trainset: "Pégase" prototype,
• ETR 500: Italian high-speed train for type approval in France,
• ICE: German high-speed train for type approval in France,
• TAV/04: Spanish high-speed trainset, pressure waves at 250 km/h,
• All high-speed (TGV) rolling stock used by SNCF.
• High-speed line commissioning in Belgium and the Netherlands
• Commissioning of high-speed lines CTRL 1 and 2 in the UK

Urban transport

• Paris metro: evaluation of the performance of all the rolling stock used on the RATP network (traction-braking, acoustics, etc.), EMC, traction return current, etc.
• Warsaw metro, automatic metro in Barcelona, metros in Caracas, Singapore, Canton, Mexico, Marseilles, Lille, Lyons, Geneva, Santiago, etc.
• Tram systems in Lille, Montpellier, Orleans and Caen (France)
• Hong-Kong Airport (ticketing)

Conventional railways

• ACELA tilting train for the North-East Corridor (USA)
• Triple bogie mDDM multiple unit trainset for the NS (Netherlands)
• 200 km/h tilting train "SuperVoyager" for the VIRGIN (UK) network
• EUROTUNNEL shuttles
• GATWICK / JUNIPER trainsets for the UK network: mechanical strength tests on the motor bogie and suspension in accordance with the BR 7608 standard
• FIAT CPA series 4000 tilting trainset for the Portuguese network
• Type approval of a CoCo locomotive for the Chinese network
• AVANTO Tram-train for Mulhouse and Aulnay Bondy
• Electromagnetic compatibility between a new multiple unit trainset and the signalling, telecommunications and power supply installations on REFER – in accordance with the EN 50238 standard
• Channel Tunnel TML-CSEE): Validation of the signalling systems at the two terminals and in the two tunnels

Clients include