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Thanks to its nine traction workshops spread across the country, SNCB is able to offer different levels of preventive and/or corrective maintenance on electric or diesel locomotives. The range of services can go from a simple sand or diesel replenishment to a global maintenance contract:

  • Preventive and corrective maintenance of locomotives (incl. TBL1+ safety systems, ETCS, ATB, Indus, GSM R, KBV, etc.)
  • Lifting work: changing bogies, transformers, etc.
  • Bogie repairs: exchange of main components such as axles



  • Disassembly / reassembly of components
  • Inspection and work on roofs
  • Inspection and work in pits
  • Hotline and mobile interventions
  • Weighing of locomotives
  • Locomotive cleaning and removal of graffiti — in the workshop or using mobile teams 
  • Retouching and paint work
  • Transition to underfloor wheel lathe in or near the workshop



  • Welding (according to EN 15085 standard)
  • Non-destructive testing (according to ISO 9712 + DIN 27201 7 standards)
  • Bonding of Windscreens and pannels (following norm EN 17460)
  • Load test on diesel locomotives with Certified load bank 

Virtual tour of our traction workshop in Antwerp: 360 experience of SNCB.

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