Abstract

The Extended Market Wagon (EMW) (see article start image) is an advanced lightweight freight wagon that was developed as part of the Fr8Rail 4 project in Europe’s Rail in the Shift2Rail IP-5 programme. In a previous article, the lightweight design developed for the EMW by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR) within the Competitive Freight Wagon (CFW) consortium was described [1]. In the following article, the subsequent manufacture of the final wagon design will be described, as well as the display of the wagon at the InnoTrans 2022 in Berlin and its testing under real world conditions in Velim in Czechia.

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