Our railway specific bearings and services help you obtain lower life cycle costs by letting you use bearings to their full potential. In railway applications, bearings need to comply with several customer requirements. These include the need for reliability, extended maintenance intervals, space-saving design capabilities and more.

Bearings

We offer solutions for a wide range of wheelset designs for all kinds of railway rolling stock. This includes high-speed trains, diesel and electric locomotives, diesel and electrical multiple units, passenger coaches, freight cars and mass transit vehicles like tram cars.

• Tapered roller bearing units
• Cylindrical roller bearing units
• Compact tapered bearing units
• Cylindrical roller bearings
• Spherical roller bearings
• Tapered roller bearings
• Hybrid bearings
• Bearings with electrically insulating coating
• Traction motor bearing units
• Four-point contact ball bearings
• Deep groove ball bearings
• Spherical plain bearings and rod ends
• Self-lubricating spherical plain bearings

Applications

In railway applications, bearings need to comply with several customer requirements. These include the need for reliability, extended maintenance intervals, space-saving design capabilities and more. We offer solutions for a wide range of wheelset designs for all kinds of railway rolling stock. This includes high-speed trains, diesel and electric locomotives, diesel and electrical multiple units, passenger coaches, freight cars and mass transit vehicles like tram cars. 

Bogies and wheelsets: Bogies are complex railway vehicle subsystems critical for reliable performance and reliability on track.

Drive system bearings: Widi drive system bearings for minimal-maintenance, sustainable and cost-effective railway operations with high levels of contamination, in humid environments as well as variations in speed and loads.

Rail track solutions: The condition of rail tracks plays a significant role in the reliability of railway operations. Increase reliability on track with SKF maintenance solutions.