Primary Suspension

Primary suspension products minimize the effects of contact between wheel and rails during the journey, competently absorbing vibrations and reducing impact sound to guarantee smooth travel.

These customized solutions are developed in close collaboration with the customer on the basis of clearly defined specifications.

These products are not available in South America.

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Benefits & Features

Under extreme strain, Continental primary suspension systems minimize the effects of contact between the wheel and rails during the journey. They competently absorb vibrations and reduce impact sound to guarantee smooth travel.

  • Passengers travelling on local, intercity and high-speed trains can relax while travelling
  • Growing in importance, even for freight
  • Long service life
  • High level of quality
  • Low life cycle costs
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Reliability guaranteed by original parts

We exclusively supply spare parts with identical qualities to the equipment originally installed. Thanks to our global network of dealers, qualified in-house technicians, and experienced assemblers, our products are available at short notice anywhere in the world and are replaced in a reliable manner.

Thanks to our competent consultations, preventative inspections of used parts, precise laboratory measurements and early needs assessments, we are able to offer you the security of preparing maintenance and replacement work more than twelve months in advance, in a systematic and therefore cost-optimized manner.

We generally only provide complete suspension kits that contain all the components for the bogie suspension. This eases the logistics for our customers in the long term and guarantees functional complete solutions.

Product Range

Hydraulic Bushes
Continental's hydraulic bushes improve train suspension and reduce maintenance costs due to enhanced durability. They ensure smooth and safe train operation.
Conical Springs
Conical springs enable variation in lateral and vertical rigidity, guarantee excellent stability, and involve low life cycle costs.
Axle / Chevron Springs
Axle / Chevron are optimally suited for primary spring modules with a large degree of variation in vertical and horizontal stiffness.
Layer Springs
Ensure maintenance-free bearing and damping of primary suspension systems.
Guiding Bushes
Guiding bushes ensure a stable guidance of the wheel set at high dynamic load impact.
Guide Springs
Guide springs support the application of coil springs in primary suspensions.
Rolling Rubber Springs
Rolling Rubber Spring for primary and secondary suspension.
Auxiliary Springs
When combined with a helical spring, the layer spring reduces structure-borne sound and vibrations in primary and secondary spring modules.
The Glass Train
This interactive animation demonstrates which innovative Continental solutions make modern railway vehicles safe and comfortable.
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Air Springs
With Air Springs Comfortably and Safely Through the Night
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