ETR
ETR – Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau | Ausgabe Int. Edition 1/2018

Wheel bearings for high speed trains

April 2018 | Marie-Dominique Pilath

High speed trains are getting faster with every generation. NSK has been involved in this development for over fifty years. It all began with the first Shinkansen trains in Japan, for which NSK supplied the axle box bearings. Since then, NSK has repeatedly brought innovations for new high speed railways to series production – with a condition monitoring system for axle box bearings being just the latest example.