Railway test ring Velim

Logo VUZ

Substation and operating point of the Velim railway test ring

The railway test ring Velim ( Czech Železniční zkušební okruh u Velimi ) is a test track for railway vehicles in the Czech Republic . It is located almost 50 km east of Prague near Poděbrady in the Středočeský kraj ( Central Bohemia region ). The owner of the test facility is the Railway Research Institute VUZ ("Railway Research Institute"), a subsidiary of the Czech Railways . The research institute VÚKV as (“Research Institute for Rail Vehicles”), a subsidiary of Škoda, also conducts research on this facility .

history

Railway test ring Velim

The Organization for the Cooperation of the Railways (OSJD), founded by the then socialist countries, established the experimental ring, which was opened in 1963.

The smaller of the two rings is to be equipped for testing self-driving rail vehicles by 2024.

description

The Eisenbahnversuchsring consists of two interconnected loops:

• The small ring is 3.951 km long and enables driving speeds of up to 90 km / h.
• The large ring is 13.276 km long (radius 1400 m, cant 150 mm) and is approved for speeds of up to 210 km / h (vehicles with tilting technology up to 230 km / h). Inside lies the village of Sokoleč .

For test drives of electric locomotives and railcars, the contact line voltage can be switched to all of the power systems commonly used in Europe:

• 3000 V =
• 1500 V =
• 750 V =
• 25 kV 50 Hz ~
• 15 kV 16.7 Hz ~

• Vehicles on the Velim railway test ring
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  An Alstom AGV on a test drive (2008)

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  Škoda 109E during a test

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  Alstom Coradia Continental for DB Regio

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  Siemens Vectron

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  PESA LINK for ČD

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  Škoda 7Ev for ČD

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  Stadler Flirt for LEO Express

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  Shunting locomotive 794 001 of the VUZ

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  Historic locomotive T 499.0002 of the VUZ

AŽD Praha equipped the large ring with ETCS Level 2 in 2015 .

See also

Wegberg-Wildenrath test center

Web links

Commons : Eisenbahnversuchsring Velim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website (Czech / English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ VUZ - official homepage
2. ^ Peter Bock: Oranienburger Runde. From the test track to the test ring. In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter. Vol. 27. Berlin 2000. p. 86.
3. ↑ Test ring Velim is equipped . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . No. 12 , 2019, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 640 .
4. ↑ http://www.cdvuz.cz/en/vuz-test-centre-velim/
5. ^ Intelligence Market . In: Railway Gazette International . tape 171 , 2015, ISSN  0373-5346 , p. 18-19 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  N , 15 ° 5 ′ 45 ″  E