Traction and rolling stock

Robot shunting locomotives deployed at Kazakh coal mine

By 2023-08-07T12:00:00

Vollert DER 300 twin-section robot shunting machine at Bogatyr mine

KAZAKHSTAN: German shunting equipment specialist Vollert has supplied five twin-section DER 300 diesel-electric automated robots for moving 1 km long trains of up to 6 900 tonnes through loading equipment at the Bogatyr open-cast coal mine in Ekibastuz.

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