CRH3

CRH3
CRH3C on the Wuhan – Guangzhou high-speed line
Number:	46 CRH3C (+164 planned) 100 CRH3D (planned)
Manufacturer:	Siemens , CNR Tangshan Railway Vehicle Co. Ltd.
Year of construction (s):	2007ff
Axis formula :	Bo'Bo '+ 2'2' + Bo'Bo '+ 2'2' + 2'2 '+ Bo'Bo' + 2'2 '+ Bo'Bo' (CRH3C)
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Length over coupling:	200 m (CRH3C, CRH380B), 400 m (CRH380BL / CL)
Height:	3,890 mm
Width:	3,265 mm
Bogie axle base:	2,500 mm
Empty mass:	447 t (CRH3C)
Wheel set mass :	17.7 t
Top speed:	350 km / h (CRH3C), 380 km / h (CRH380B / BL / CL)
Hourly output :	8.8 MW (CRH3C) 9.2 MW (CRH380B) 18.4 MW (CRH380BL, CL)
Starting tractive effort:	300 kN (CRH3C)
Acceleration:	0.38 m / s² (0-200 km / h)
Power system :	25 kV 50 Hz
Power transmission:	Overhead line
Number of traction motors:	16 (CRH3C), 32 (CRH3D)
Train control :	ETCS level 1
Coupling type:	Scharfenberg
Seats:	601 (CRH3C) 1060 (CRH3D)
Floor height:	1,260 mm

The CRH3 , later called CRH3A , since December 2010 called CRH3C , is a high-speed electric train in China . The trains were developed by Siemens as Velaro CN ( CN for China ) as the second series based on the Velaro platform. While the first three multiple units were manufactured in the Siemens factory in Krefeld-Uerdingen , Germany, the other units in China were built using Siemens components.

Compared to the other Velaro trains, the trains are characterized by widened car bodies and technical adaptations to the high-speed traffic in the People's Republic of China. They are used on various Chinese high-speed lines.

Naming

The abbreviation CRH3 stands for China Railway High-speed . The number “3” denotes the fourth series of Chinese high-speed trains - while series from Bombardier and Kawasaki ( Shinkansen ) are designated with CRH1 and CRH2 , the Velaro bears the number “3” due to the parallels to the ICE 3 . The number “4” has been left out as an unlucky number, pronounced it sounds very similar to the Chinese word for death . The CRH5 is a multiple unit from the Alstom group based on the Pendolino . Letters were later added to the designation in order to distinguish it from similar features.

Ordering and manufacturing

After several weeks of negotiations, the official signing of the contract for 60 eight-part Velaro high-speed trains took place in Beijing on November 20, 2005 (according to another source on November 10, 2005) . The customer is the Chinese state railway China Railways , which acts on behalf of the Ministry of Railways (MOR) . The construction and planning was carried out by Siemens Mobility in Erlangen and Krefeld . In June 2006 the Chinese customer was presented with a 1: 1 scale model - a so-called mock-up  . The first three trains were completely produced in Krefeld-Uerdingen. The remaining 57 units were manufactured on site by the Chinese partner Tangshan Locomotive & Rolling Stock Works , a plant of the China Northern Locomotive & Rolling Stock Industry (Group) Corporation (CNR) , until 2010 . The order volume for Siemens' stake is around 669 million euros.

CRH380BL

On March 16, 2009, the Chinese State Railways ordered Tangshan Railway Vehicle Co. Ltd. (TC) , Changchun Railway Vehicles Co. Ltd. (CRC) , 100 high-speed trains developed by them on the basis of the CRH3 or Velaro CN. Four days later, a contract was signed between Tangshan Railway Vehicle Co. Ltd. (TC) , Changchun Railway Vehicles Co. Ltd. (CRC) , the Chinese Academy of Railways (CARS) and Siemens, according to which Siemens will supply essential components for this train. Electrical equipment is supplied from Germany and the bogies from Graz . This Siemens share amounts to a volume of around 750 million euros. 70 trains are manufactured on site in Tangshan and 30 trains in Changchun .

The 100 trains ordered in March 2009 are intended for the 1,318-kilometer route between Beijing and Shanghai . At an operating speed of up to 380 km / h, the vehicles should cover this distance in around four hours. The commissioning of the first trains was scheduled for the end of 2010. These trains are to consist of 16 cars and, at around 400 meters, are about twice as long as the 60 CRH3, with around 1,060 seats. A total drive power of 18.4 megawatts will be installed in the trains. Commissioning began in mid-January 2011.

On January 9, 2011 at 5:15 p.m., a CRH380BL shortened to 12 cars set a new world record for series-production trains by reaching a speed of 487.3 km / h on the 156-kilometer stretch between Xuzhou and Bengbu.

CRH380B

In mid-November 2009, the Chinese State Railways ordered a further 140 eight-car Velaro CN trains. The multiple units manufactured by the CNR subsidiaries Changchun and Tangshan have been in operation on the Beijing – Shanghai high-speed line since 2011 .

CRH3 350 LTT

In October 2010 the Ministry of Railways (MoR) ordered 40 eight-car trains with the designation CRH3 350 LTT , where LTT stands for Low Temperature Train. This means that these eight-part models must be reliably usable down to at least minus 40 degrees. Production began in Changchun in spring 2011.

Installation

CRH3C at Tianjin Railway Station

A first end car shell for final assembly in Tangshan was shipped from Hamburg to China in July 2007. The first three complete wagons of an eight-car train from German production were transported on the road from Krefeld to Bremerhaven and began their six-week crossing to Tianjin on December 18, 2007 on the Danish cargo ship Gjertrud Mærsk .

The commissioning of the first train from German production, which arrived in the port city of Tianjin in January 2008, took place in March and April of that year at the Chinese Siemens partner Tangshan Locomotive & Rolling Stock Works . The second train from German production also arrived in Tianjin at the beginning of April. The first CRH3 built in China went into operation in April 2008. Since April 26, 2008, regular test drives have been carried out on the Beijing – Tianjin high- speed line, with speeds of up to 374 km / h. By mid-June 2008, two trains from German and one from Chinese production had been put into operation.

On June 24, 2008, a CRH3 train made in China set a new speed record for rail vehicles in China with 394.3 km / h on the route from Beijing to Tianjin . The train left Beijing Railway Station at 8:55 a.m. and covered the 116.9 kilometer route in 25 minutes and 10 seconds. This corresponds to a cruising speed of 278.7 km / h. The record speed was set almost 20 minutes later, in the presence of the Chinese Railway Minister Liu Zhijun . The following day, President Hu Jintao drove a CRH3 from southern Beijing to Tianjin.

The CRH3C in the new Changsha South Station

On August 1, 2008, a week before the start of the Summer Olympics in Beijing , five CRH3s with a planned top speed of 300 km / h started passenger service on the Beijing – Tianjin high-speed line, two of them German and three Chinese. At the same time, six CRH2 trains from the Japanese Shinkansen series run on this route , so that since then it has been possible to run in time. The CRH3 multiple units will initially serve the Beijing – Tianjin high-speed line. According to the manufacturer, the entire fleet of sixty CRH3s was put into scheduled traffic in 2010.

During a test drive of the CRH3 on December 9, 2009, a record of 394.2 km / h was set on the route from Wuhan to Guangzhou . Since December 26, 2009, the 969-kilometer route from Wuhan via Changsha and Zhuzhou to Guangzhou has been commercially operated, using both CRH2 and CRH3 trains - as is the case on the route between Beijing and Tianjin. The journey time has been reduced from the previous 10.5 hours to three hours and eight minutes. The maiden voyage took place with a CRH2 and an average speed of 309 km / h.

Further routes are already being planned or are already being built.

Furnishing

CRH3, 2nd class car

CRH3, 1st class car

The total length of the trains is around 200 or 400 meters. The multiple units are designed in standard gauge, but compared to the European variants, which have a car width of 2,950 millimeters, widened by 315 millimeters in order to offer space for 601 passengers. In the second class car there is room for 529 passengers with five seats per row, in the first class intermediate car there is 56 seats with four seats per row, and in the lounge compartments behind the two driver's cabs there are eight first class seats. There is also a bistro car. As is customary in the country, there is a kettle in every car. Other special features include the lack of steps on the doors and more powerful air conditioning systems. The panorama compartments at both ends of the train are reserved for first class passengers. A multilingual passenger information system with visual displays for inside and outside is installed.

The trains, which are also intended for traffic in double traction , are equipped for a mains voltage of 25 kV 50 Hz alternating voltage and can achieve a continuous output of 8,800 kilowatts. Unlike the ICE3 or Velaro-E, GTOs are used as converters in the CRH3 , but IGBTs . The train protection, based on the European ETCS Level 1 system, has been modified for Chinese conditions. Deceleration is mainly done with regenerative brakes, which allow energy recovery. The braking system is supplemented by pneumatic friction brakes with wheel disc brakes . As parking brakes when stationary, there are spring-loaded brakes in certain cars .

literature

• Helmut Petrowitsch: The Sino-German high-speed train Velaro CN. ICE 3 in the Middle Kingdom . In: railway magazine . No. 1/2010 . Alba publication, January 2010, ISSN  0342-1902 , p. 29-31 .

Web links

Commons : CRH3  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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