Hoi, ik dacht dat het misschien een goed idee is om een apart topic te maken, waar iedereen kort internationaal nieuws kan posten.
ier doden bij treincrash Amerika
25 juni 2011
In de Amerikaanse staat Nevada zijn bij een treinongeluk zeker vier mensen omgekomen. Er vielen 20 gewonden. De trein werd bij een spoorwegovergang aangereden door een vrachtwagen.
Chauffeur is omgekomen
Het is niet precies duidelijk wie de doden zijn. De politie vertelde aan tv-zender ABC dat de vrachtwagenchauffeur en een medewerker zijn omgekomen. De trein is deels uitgebrand.
Grote vuurbal
Een overlevende omschreef hoe hij een grote vuurbal langs het raam van zijn wagon zag vliegen. Hij raakte niet gewond. Hoeveel passagiers er in totaal in de trein zaten, is niet bekend.
Bron: RTL
Siemens consortium is preferred bidder for 1200 Thameslink cars PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, June 16, 2011
BRITAIN's rail minister Teresa Villiers has announced today that a consortium led by Siemens is the preferred bidder to fund, build and maintain a fleet of 1200 emu cars as part of the £6bn project to upgrade and expand the Thameslink cross-London rail network. The consortium will also fund and build two train depots in the London area at Hornsey and Three Bridges.desiro-city-fcc-1-276.jpg
Siemens is in a consortium with Cross London Trains itself a consortium of finance partners comprising Siemens Project Ventures, Innisfree and 3i Infrastructure.
It is expected to take several months to reach financial closure. However, the first trains should enter service in 2015, with delivery completed by 2018.
The Desiro City trains will be built at Siemens' Krefeld factory in Germany, but Siemens says the deal will result in the creation of 2000 jobs in Britain for the supply of components, the construction of the depots and to maintain the trains. Each set will comprise eight or 12 cars.
Siemens began developing the Desiro City in 2007 and has invested Euros 50m in the project. The train is around 25% lighter than the current Desiro UK emu. "We have used inner-frame bogies and we've substantially reduced the amount of ac cabling and associated relays in the traction system," Siemens Desiro City project manager Mr Daragh Lowry told IRJ at Railtex in London today. "This helps to make the train up to 50% more energy efficient than previous British Desiros." The trains also feature an intelligent standby mode to reduce power consumption during stabling, CO2 sensors to regulate air-conditioning, and a driver assitance system for efficient acceleration and braking.
Inside, all seats and luggage racks are cantilevered from the bodyside to make cleaning more straightforward, and there are full-width gangways and larger windows for the benefit of standing passengers. Siemens has also eliminated electrical cabinets from the passenger area and widened the passenger doors to reduce station dwell times.
The government says it will retain the other bidder for the deal, the VeloCity consortium led by Bombardier, in reserve in case it fails to finalise the contract with Siemens. Bombardier is currently the only company in Britain with a train manufacturing facility. Its plant in Derby is working at full capacity, but manufacturing on four of its five production lines will be completed by the end of the year, casting doubt over the future viability of the plant.
http://www.railjournal.com/newsflash/si ... -1235.html
Rare neus dat metrotoestel
Siemens unveils London Underground concept train
20 June 2011
UK: A design concept for a next-generation train for London Underground’s small-profile ‘tube’ lines was unveiled by Siemens during the Railtex exhibition.
Building on its successful role in supplying replacement bogies for Central Line and Waterloo & City Line stock, Siemens was asked by LU to develop a ‘concept train’ for the next round of replacement stock which will in due course be needed for the Piccadilly and Bakerloo lines.
When LU last tendered for replacement trains for the Piccadilly Line, Siemens did not submit a bid – and indeed on that occasion the plans did not proceed. Now, however, according to Friedrich Timmer, Project Manager for Rolling Stock in the Mobility Division at Siemens, ‘we believe London Underground is ready for the next generation of trains’.
Comparing the concept train with the Bombardier stock now entering service on the Victoria Line, Siemens said that the future design would offer a 30 tonne weight saving with 11% more capacity. Featuring wide gangways between cars, the trains would be 30% more energy-efficient; even if air-conditioning were fitted, the trains would be 17% more energy-efficient, said Timmer.
Siemens has developed the concept as the basis of a product family adaptable for use on different LU lines. The design includes what Siemens terms an ‘iconic’ front end that it hopes may one day become a London landmark.
Timmer expects prequalification for the next-generation train procurement process to start in 2012.
http://www.railwaygazette.com/nc/news/s ... train.html
Vom: 24.09.08
Modell der neuen Lok für Frightliner; Foto: C. Müller
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Trenitalia (Italian Railways) has awarded Bombardier Transportation a new order to supply an additional 50 of its economical and proven E464 electric locomotives, exercising an option to the contract signed in 2009 for the supply of 100 units. Valued at approximately 128 million euro ($186 million US), the contract is a further landmark for Bombardier locomotives in Italy. With this contract, Trenitalia has placed orders for a total of 688 E464 locomotives, 570 of which are already in successful commercial service. Delivery of the locomotives is scheduled for between 2012 and 2013.
