Technics
Our Mission
To guarantee a reliable, safe, and efficient train that you can count on, day after day.
Our Priority Objectives
- Safety: Building a strong safety culture.
- Operational Excellence: Ensuring operational excellence in the maintenance of our own equipment and that of third parties.
- Optimisation: Optimising maintenance policies and the types of equipment and technologies used.
- Digitalisation: Promoting digitalisation to improve our processes.
- Accessibility: Ensuring autonomous access for persons with reduced mobility (PRM).
Our Activities
- Preventive and Corrective Maintenance: Ensuring preventive and corrective maintenance of rolling stock according to safety, availability, reliability, and cleanliness criteria to provide the trains necessary to implement the SNCB-NMBS transport plan.
- Spare Parts Management: Managing and repairing the spare parts necessary for our activities.
- Services for Third Parties: Offering maintenance, modernisation, and modification services for third-party equipment, thereby leveraging the technical expertise of SNCB-NMBS.
Our Infrastructure
To fulfil its mission, the Technics direction has:
- 9 traction workshops: Perform maintenance and repairs on traction equipment and ensure internal and external cleaning.
- 18 technical maintenance posts: Ensure short-term maintenance.
- 2 central workshops: Perform long-term maintenance.
Services for Third Parties
The Technics direction also works for third parties, offering services such as:
- Maintenance and Repair: Maintenance, troubleshooting, various repairs, and cleaning of rolling stock for Eurostar Group and TGV (SNCF).
- Freight Wagons: Maintenance of freight wagons for clients such as Infrabel, Lineas, Crossrail, Ermewa, on-site and off-site.
- Locomotives: Maintenance and repairs of locomotives for national and international freight transport for clients such as Lineas, Railpool, Siemens, Crossrail.
- Components: Repairs and overhauls of components for freight transport and high-speed equipment for clients such as Lineas, Infrabel, CFL, Eurostar Group.
Our workshops
NMBS has two central workshops and nine traction workshops, which fall under the Technics Directorate. In the workshops, we maintain, repair and renovate railcars, locomotives, power cars and carriages. Thanks to our extensive portfolio, our staff have extensive high-tech knowledge, which is also a big plus for our external customers.
SNCB workshop visits
We organise workshop visits for final-year students in vocational and technical education and well as technical education.
Maintenance services for third parties and miscellaneous sales
SNCB currently provides a variety of different types of service to third parties.
