CAF Urbos

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Urbos 1 on the Bilbao tram

Urbos is a family of trams made by the Basque company Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF).

history

The Spanish rail vehicle manufacturer CAF, based in the city of Beasain in the province of Gipuzkoa , has already had extensive experience in building underground trains. In 1993 he started producing tram cars. From 1993 to 1999, he manufactured 16 cars with 70% low-floor space for the Valencia Metro in cooperation with Siemens , from where the bogies and the traction system came. In the same way, six cars for the Lisbon tram were delivered in 1995 . The company then decided to develop its own type of tram car that would be built entirely in-house.

The first order for the Urbos came from the Bilbao tram , for which eight cars were delivered between 2004 and 2006. Assembly took place at the Zaragoza and Linares production sites .

Series

There are currently three series of Urbos railcars. Not all cars of the same series are identical, as they have been adapted to the local characteristics of the tram network.

Urbos 1

The first generation is only used in the Basque city of Bilbao . Eight wagons were made, seven of which are 70% and one is 100% low-floor. These are three-part meter-gauge articulated trains. The end parts each run on a motorized bogie under the end of the driver's cab and the middle part on a bogie that cannot be swiveled out from the car body. Due to the lack of turning loops at the end of the line in Bilbao, the trains are bidirectional vehicles .

Urbos 2

Urbos 2 on the Seville tram

For the next order for three trams from CAF for the Vélez-Málaga tram , the design was fundamentally changed to a multi-articulated trolley: Urbos 2. These units consist of five car bodies in the configuration end section with driver's cab - litter box - middle section - sedan chair - end section with driver's cab.

One car was equipped with the ACR (Acumulador de Carga Rápida) storage system in order to be able to carry out test drives on sections without overhead lines. This car was used on the Seville tram until the fleet there was replaced by Urbos 3 vehicles.

Urbos 2 wagons are currently used in the following companies:

Urbos 3

Urbos 3 in Freiburg
Urbos 3 in Belgrade
Urbos 3 in Budapest (video)

The most important innovation of this type is the possibility of installing the ACR ( Acumulador de Carga Rápida ) system, which makes it possible to drive on routes without overhead lines ( accumulator railcars ). Although this system can be built into the other series, CAF touts the Urbos 3 as the definitive solution for city traffic because it eliminates the problem of integrating overhead lines and masts into the cityscape. With the ACR system, supercapacitors are charged at every stop so that they store the energy required to reach the next stop. CAF examined other systems such as Alimentation Par Sol (APS), fuel cell and flywheel , but rejected them because of high costs or lack of suitability.

In addition, further improvements were made to the car. The design has been revised and the interior design has been changed from an ergonomic point of view. The traction converters now use IGBT technology and enable the use of braking energy.

Variants in standard and meter gauge are offered. The car body width can be selected between 2300, 2400 and 2650 millimeters. The cars can consist of 3, 5, 7 or 9 modules, so that the length varies between 23 and 56 meters (longest tram car in the world for Budapest).

The first Urbos 3 cars went into service on March 21, 2011 at the Seville Tramway . On April 19, 2011, a second tram system with Urbos-3 cars went into operation: the Saragossa tram . In addition, units for various networks are under construction or planned:

Areas of application

business place country number Options Gauge

in mm

Type * 1 length

in m

width

in m

tension

V =

Installation Remarks
Amsterdam tram Amsterdam Netherlands 63 1435 600 from 2019
Belgrade tram Belgrade Serbia 30th 1000 33 2.30 600
Besançon tram Besançon France 19th 1435 23 2.40 750
West Midlands Metro Birmingham Great Britain 20th 5 1435 33 2.65 750
Budapest tram Budapest Hungary 35 87 (-10 in the first order) 1435 five-part ZR 34 600 from 2015 to 2016
12 nine parts 56
Cercanías Cadiz Cadiz Spain 7th 1668
Cincinnati USA (Ohio) 5
Cuiabá Brazil 40
Debrecen tram Debrecen Hungary 18th 1435 600 from February 26, 2014
Edinburgh trams Edinburgh Great Britain 27 1435 ZR 42.8 750
Freiburg im Breisgau tram Freiburg in Breisgau Germany 12 1000 43 750 from 2015
Granada light rail Granada Spain 15th 1435 750 with ACR battery option
Kansas City USA (Missouri) 4th
Kaohsiung Taiwan 9
Stater Tram Luxembourg Luxembourg 32 1435 750 from December 2017
Málaga Metro Málaga Spain 14th   1435 750
Tram Nantes Nantes France 8th 1435 750
Zaragoza tram Zaragoza Spain 21st 1435 33 2.65 750
Tram Seville Seville Spain 5 1435 750 with ACR battery option
Stockholm tram Stockholm Sweden 15th 1435 750
Sydney light rail Sydney Australia 6th 1435 750
Utrecht light rail Utrecht Netherlands 27 1435 five-part ZR 33 750 Delivery from the end of 2016

Commissioning 2020

22nd seven-part
Vitoria-Gasteiz tram Vitoria-Gasteiz Spain 7th 1000 seven-part ZR 44 2.40 750 Delivery from December 2019

* 1 vehicle type: ER = one-way trolley, ZR = two-way trolley

Belgrade

In 2009, a contract was signed with the Spanish manufacturer Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) for the delivery of 30 five-part low-floor articulated multiple units of the Urbos 3 type. The cars are completely low-floor, 33 meters long and 2.3 meters wide. One car offers space for up to 242 passengers. The order has a volume of 70 million euros. The first Urbos 3 was delivered in May 2011.

Besançon

After the invitation to tender, the Spanish manufacturer CAF was commissioned to manufacture and maintain 19 low-floor Urbos 3 vehicles. This order was valued at EUR 34.4 million, which corresponds to EUR 1.81 million per vehicle. The delivery of the first Urbos 3 began in June 2013 in order to carry out various tests before commissioning in December 2014. All vehicles arrived in Besançon by March 2014. The vehicles are 23 m long and 2.40 m wide. They consist of three vehicle bodies and are painted in turquoise. One vehicle has space for 132 passengers, 38 of them on seats. There are four doors for getting in and out. It is possible to expand the vehicles by two additional modules. The first vehicle was built in Saragossa, the others were built in Bagnères-de-Bigorre in the former halls of Soulé. The first test drives took place from the beginning of October 2013, and the first vehicle was to complete a total of 10,000 km of test drives. The drivers were trained from January 2014.

Birmingham

From 2012, 20 five-part articulated Urbos 3 cars were built by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) in Spain for the Midland Metro. These are 33 meters long and 2.65 meters wide and offer 54 seats. They will gradually replace the first generation cars from summer 2014.

Budapest

for tram line 1 12 trains with a length of 56 m (longest tram car in the world), and for other lines 35 trains with a length of 34 m.
From 2015 a total of 47 bidirectional vehicles of the CAF Urbos type will be put into operation. 35 of them are five-part, with a length of 34 meters, and have been in use on Line 3 since autumn 2015. 12 more are nine-part, 56 meters long, and are intended for line 1. There is an option for 77 more vehicles. The first vehicle with the number 2201 was delivered on March 11, 2015. Financing is provided by EU funds.

Edinburgh

The orders for the 27 vehicles were awarded to the CAF after a tender in which Alstom, Bombardier and Siemens had also participated. The contract is valued at £ 40 million. It is a bidirectional low-floor articulated wagon with a length of 42.8 m. The electrical equipment for the vehicles was supplied by Vossloh Kiepe from Düsseldorf. Special conditions were: Very quiet driving and a design that does justice to the status of Edinburgh city center as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The vehicles offer 80 seats and 250 standing places and have been equipped with video surveillance. A model of the proposed vehicle was shown on Princes Street in early 2009.

Since test drives in Edinburgh were initially not possible due to the delay in construction on the route, the vehicles were tested in the Siemens test center for rail vehicles in Wildenrath from March 2010.

Freiburg (Breisgau)

On February 4, 2013, the Spanish company CAF was awarded the contract from among four applicants for twelve 43-meter-long, seven-part two-way Urbos 100 cars, each with four bogies. The purchase price was 36 million euros. The first car, later number 302, arrived on March 17, 2015. Five other first series cars with the numbers 301 and 303 to 306 were delivered by summer 2015. After test and training drives, regular use began on July 22, 2015. The new vehicles run on lines 3 and 5, and during rush hour also on line 1. The second series with the numbers 307 to 312 has been in use since 2017.

Málaga

The Málaga Metro is served by 14 Urbos 3 vehicles, manufactured by the Spanish company Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF). These units reach 70 km / h and have a capacity of 221 people (52 seats).

Nantes

In 2010, the city of Nantes put eight new trams out to tender in order to expand the network and increase the frequency of the various lines. In October 2010, the Spanish manufacturer Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) emerged as the winner with the Urbos 3 model. Like the Incentro, the Urbos 3 is a five-part low-floor articulated multiple unit. The purchase price of the eight cars was 22 million euros. An option for a further four cars at a price of around ten million euros was also exercised, so that a total of twelve vehicles will be delivered.

The new trains are primarily intended for line 1 and will be available for extension to Ranzay - the first stage to connect lines 1 and 2 - in 2012. They also help enable three minute rush hour intervals on the central section of the line.

The bid to CAF was decided because of the relatively low purchase price. The vehicles were delivered beginning April 2012, by the end of 2012 all railcars should be delivered. These cars are similar to the previously purchased Incentros in terms of their technical and design features. The cars are assembled in France at the CAF plant in Bagnères-de-Bigorre, which was built in 2008 to manufacture trams primarily for French companies. Individual components come from Spain, the chassis are manufactured in Beasain, the car bodies in Saragossa.

Zaragoza

The consortium that took over the construction and operation of the tram selected the Urbos 3 model from the Spanish railway manufacturer CAF as rolling stock. The articulated multiple units have a total length of 33 meters and consist of five modules (can be extended by two modules to 43 meters). They are 2.65 meters wide and 3.2 meters high. Its capacity is 200 people, of which 146 are standing (at 3.5 people per square meter) and 54 are seated.

Seville

For the Seville tram , Urbos 3 were supplied with the ACR battery option. Up until then, the operator was required to remove the overhead line during traditional processions. With the commissioning at Easter 2011, the overhead line could be permanently removed.

Sydney

Since the middle of 2014, the Urbos 2 railcars have been gradually replaced by new Urbos 3 vehicles. The original delivery of six vehicles in 2014 has been expanded to include another six. The additional six units went into operation in June 2015.

Urbos AXL

ET 551 (four-part Urbos AXL) in Gåshaga ( Lidingöbanan )

The Urbos AXL was developed especially for longer and overland routes. These units reach a speed of 90 kilometers per hour. The car bodies are longer than those of the multi-articulated wagons , they run on bogies with continuous axles. The end sections, each with a bogie, are, comparable to the Citylink wagons, attached to the transition end on the intermediate wagon with two bogies. The additional middle section of the four-part units also runs on a bogie. The wagon floor is stepless except for the areas above the end bogies, but it is slightly raised above the other bogies. The Urbos AXL are available as one-way and two-way trolleys .

business country Type Construction year Order number length width Parts ER / ZR comment
Tallinn tram Estonia  20th 3 HE
Stockholm tram Sweden A35 2011 15th 31.175 m 2.65 m 3 ZR Tvärbanan
Stockholm tram Sweden A36 2014 7th 40.6 m 2.65 m 4th ZR Lidingobanan
Stockholm tram Sweden July 2017 8th 3 ZR
Stockholm tram Sweden October 2017  2 4th ZR Lidingobanan
Stockholm tram Sweden October 2017  10 3 ZR Tvärnana. So a total of 42 Urbos for Stockholm.

Tallinn

To renew the fleet, a contract was signed with the Spanish manufacturer CAF, which involves the delivery of a total of 20 new low-floor wagons by 2016. The first copy arrived in Tallinn at the end of 2014 and will be extensively tested and adjusted by February 2015. There are currently considerations to give up trolleybus traffic (since 1965) as the third branch of operation in the medium term in favor of an expanded tram network.

Stockholm

Stockholm first procured three-part Urbos AXL. They were given the type designation A35 and are used on the Tvärbanan ( cross line ). In the rush hour they run in double traction. From 2013, four-part railcars were also procured as type A36, which run on Lidingöbanan (to the island of Lidingö ).

Individual evidence

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  2. Marc Kruyswijk: Zo gaan de nieuwe trams van GVB he uitzien. September 30, 2016, accessed June 1, 2019 (nl-NL).
  3. Beograd to buy 30 CAF trams . Railway Gazette International . November 6, 2009. Retrieved April 1, 2011.
  4. CAF wins Urbos tram contracts . Railway Gazette International . January 7, 2011. Retrieved January 7, 2011.
  5. CAF named preferred bidder to supply new Midland Metro trams , Railway Gazette International . February 2, 2012. Retrieved September 22, 2013. 
  6. Work begins on £ 128m Midland Metro expansion project . In: Railway Gazette International , March 22, 2012. Retrieved September 22, 2013. 
  7. 37 instead of 47 units of the new tram arrives in Budapest . March 3, 2014. Retrieved April 28, 2014.
  8. Train / tram Bay of Cadiz . CAF . Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  9. ^ CAF USA Selected As Preferred Vendor For Streetcar Vehicles . April 12, 2013. Retrieved September 22, 2013.
  10. ^ Cincinnati Tramway . CAF . Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  11. VLTs de Cuiabá serão fabricados na Espanha (in Portuguese) . Retrieved August 23, 2012.
  12. Átadták a debreceni 2-es villamosvonalat-Linie 2 open in Debrecen . February 26, 2014. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
  13. Edinburgh Tram . CAF . Retrieved February 23, 2016.
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  15. From 2015 onwards, Spanish trams will be rolling . Badish newspaper. March 15, 2013. Retrieved September 22, 2013.
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  20. ^ Railway Gazette: Urbos 3 concept on display in Málaga . Retrieved November 28, 2010.
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  22. Zaragoza tram Line 1 enters service . Railway Gazette International . April 26, 2011. Retrieved September 22, 2013.
  23. http://www.diariodesevilla.es/article/sevilla/656857/las/catenarias/seran/desmontadas/este/fin/semana/cara/la/semana/santa.html
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  26. Longer trams delivered to Vitoría-Gasteiz . Railway Gazette International . December 20, 2019. Retrieved December 20, 2019.
  27. VAG annual balance sheet 2017: Investments, comprehensive range of services, increase in passengers . In: VAG messages . Freiburger Verkehrs AG. July 30th, 2018. Archived from the original on August 27th, 2018. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed on August 26, 2018: "With the delivery of six more Urbos 100 light rail vehicles, a total of 12 of these vehicles are now in use." @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vag-freiburg.de
  28. TALLINN TRAM at caf.es
  29. Estonia: CAF delivers more trams to Tallinn . February 26, 2014.
  30. CAF website: STOCKHOLM TRAM
  31. Stockholm's first Lidingö light rail vehicle on test . 5th June 2014.
  32. EPD system: Urbos AXL for Stockholm Lokaltrafik A35 Tram Units
  33. Stockholm's first Lidingö light rail vehicle on test . 5th June 2014.
  34. IRJ, July 28, 2017: Stockholm extends CAF tram order
  35. a b IRJ, October 25, 2017: Stockholm orders another 12 CAF LRVs
  36. a b Metro Report, October 27, 2017: CAF to supply more trams to Stockholm

See also

Commons : CAF Urbos  - collection of images, videos and audio files