Lohr Railway System

How can vertical and horizontal handling technologies complement each other?

2021.09.24– Deutsche Verkehrs-Zeitung (DE)

The increasingly frequent extreme weather conditions remind us that it is high time to promote combined transport as the backbone of the sustainable development of our European land transport. The efficient linking of road and rail transport, supported by the intelligent use of vertical and horizontal transhipment technologies, will form the basis for competitive and sustainable transport solutions and supply chains in the future. [...]

Cherbourg-Bayonne: the first rail motorway of the Atlantic seaboard

2021.02.17 - Ouest France (FR)

Successive governments have been seeking to develop rail motorways for a number of years. In 2022, the first rail motorway of the Atlantic seaboard connecting Cherbourg to Bayonne could come into service. Work has already begun in Normandy and Pays de Loire.

After the Great Belt Bridge accident, everyone asked about our safety device

2021.02.23 - Rail Freight (GB)

On the railway line between Perpignan and Luxembourg, trains have to withstand wind currents up till 140 kmph. For the transport of semi-trailers, only the Lohr wagosn are permitted to operate on the stretch where these winds occur. Could this be an example for the Great Belt Bridge in Denmark? ...

Brittany Ferries wants to open a rail-road transport line between Cherbourg and Bayonne next year

2020.02.12 – Sud Ouest (FR)

The French shipping company will be venturing into rail transport, adding a railway link to Spain to its ferry offer thanks to the construction of a multimodal terminal at Mouguerre.

LOHR, the multimodal intermediate-sized company

12.2019 - Objectif Métropoles de France (FR)

The LOHR industrial group named after its founder, Robert Lohr, was created in 1963 just outside Strasbourg. It started by building car transporters, then military vehicles before turning to rail-road transport systems and new mobility solutions as the twenty-first century drew near. By road or rail, in town, (almost) everything runs on LOHR...

Close-up view of the mechanism of the Lohr Railway System stations, with a view of the entire line of stations for the loading of a train.

Combined rail-road transport: CFL multimodal is expanding its services at the Bettembourg terminal

2019.06.11 - Actu Transport Logistic (FR)

CFL multimodal has just announced two significant developments one after the other which could have a considerable impact on the level of traffic using the Bettembourg-Dudelange intermodal terminal. The CFL Multimodal Group continues to announce new developments for its Bettembourg-Dudelange intermodal hub.

A truck moving on the multimodal terminal of Dudelange, Luxembourg, between Lohr Railway System stations.

Poland – Luxembourg rail motorway service to launch this year

2019.06.07 - Railway Gazette (GB)

Polish freight terminal operator CLIP and Luxembourg’s CFL Multimodal are to launch a ‘rail motorway’ service between Swarzędz near Poznań and Bettembourg-Dudelange by end of this year.

aerial view of the multimodal terminal of Dudelange, Luxembourg.

Rail motorway connection announced between Poland and Luxembourg

2019.06.06 - Global Railway Review (GB)

CLIP Intermodal and CFL multimodal have announced the launch of a rail motorway train between Swarzędz and Bettembourg-Dudelange by end of 2019. The train will start with four round trips per week and will be opened to containers, craneable semi-trailers as well as non-craneable semi-trailers thanks to the Lohr Railway System technology.

Lohr booth in the exhibition: Transport Logistic in Munich in june 2019.

Transport Logistic Munich 2019

2019.06.04 - Press release

Lohr is showcasing the latest developments to the Lohr UIC wagon at the Transport Logistic trade fair in Munich where it will also announce a new road-rail transport service between Luxembourg and Poland and new terminals.

The world leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of car transporter vehicles, Lohr Automotive, presents its latest innovations at stand 215 - Hall 4.

A train with UIC wagons in the new bimodal terminal in Barcelona, Spain.

Duppigheim: LOHR wagons on course for Barcelona

2019.02.27 - DNA (FR)

Twenty rail-road transport wagons manufactured by the Bas-Rhin-based company are being used for the new Bettembourg-Barcelona “rail motorway” which was brought into service last week.