KTM-5

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KTM-5 (КТМ-5)
71-605 (KTM-5M3) No. 3416 in Nizhny Novgorod
71-605 (KTM-5M3) No. 3416 in Nizhny Novgorod
Number: 14991
Manufacturer: Ust-Katawer wagon construction factory
Year of construction (s): 1963-1992
Axis formula : Bo'Bo '
Gauge : 1,524 mm, 1,435 mm
Length: 15.094 mm
Height: 3,120 mm
Width: 2,550 mm
Trunnion Distance: 7,500 mm
Bogie axle base: 1,940 mm
Empty mass: 18.6 t
Top speed: 75 km / h
Hourly output : 4 × 45 kW = 180 kW
Driving wheel diameter: 710 mm
Motor type: DK-259
Power system : 550-600 V DC
Power transmission: Overhead line
Number of traction motors: 4th
Operating mode: Unidirectional locomotive
Seats: 32-35
Standing room: 187–192 (8 / m²)

KTM-5 ( Russian КТМ-5) is the name of a four-axle tram - railcar type built by the Ust-Katawer Waggonbaufabrik in Ust-Kataw ( Soviet Union , today Russia ) . After the Tatra T3 in Czechoslovakia, it is one of the most built trams in the world.

history

The designation "KTM-5" is usually used today for the most common sub-type KTM-5M3 (71-605). The development of the KTM-5 type included several development stages and sub-types.

KTM-5

In 1963, two four-axle prototypes with a rounded car body shape were built and delivered to the Chelyabinsk tram for testing . A series production of this type did not follow.

KTM-5M

Another prototype was built in 1966. From 1969 the series production of the type KTM-5M, which replaced the two-axle type KTM-2 . The angular plastic car body, which was unusual at the time, and the three large motor-driven, external sliding doors were striking . Around 620 KTM-5M (also known as the "Ural" type) were built up to 1971.

KTM-5M3 (71-605)

In 1971, the changeover to the type KTM-5M3 (designated as 71-605 from 1976), which differs from the KTM-5M in an externally almost unchanged metal car body with corrugated side panels and unpadded seats. By 1990 12,943 KTM-5M3s had been built, the largest number ever built by a type of tram car in the Soviet Union.

71-605A (KTM-5A)

From 1989 to 1992 a slightly modified variant was built in a number of 1426 railcars.

71-605U (KTM-5U)

All KTM-5s built before 1990 had a track width of 1524 mm. For the tram in Rostov-on-Don , which is the only one in the Soviet Union to use the European standard gauge of 1435 mm, 45 standard-gauge KTM-5Us were built from 1990 to 1992. Except for the gauge, they correspond to the KTM-5A type.

71-605RM (KTM-5RM)

From 2001 onwards, some KTM-5M3 of the Voronezh tram were modernized and designated as KTM-5RM. The trams in Kemerovo and Usolye-Sibirskoye also received some modernized vehicles of this type.

commitment

KTM-5 were used by most of the tram operators in the Soviet Union. Since the KTM-5 was only supplied in a wide-gauge version, it was not used on narrow-gauge trams. The largest tram companies in the Soviet Union (including Moscow , Kiev and Odessa ) did not receive a KTM-5, but Tatra T3 . The Leningrad tram only procured KTM-5s in 1982 and 1983, when the in-house wagon factory was unable to deliver due to renovation work. Some companies only received KTM-5 after the dissolution of the Council for Mutual Economic Aid (RGW) and the associated end of the Tatra T3 deliveries.

The KTM-5 were built exclusively as railcars, sidecar operation was not intended. At some companies, however, the KTM-5 are used in double traction.

The successor of the KTM-5 is the KTM-8 , which, however, achieved significantly lower numbers.

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literature

  • Aare Olander: Tram atlas of the former Soviet Union. Working group Blickpunkt Straßenbahn eV, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-926524-21-9 .

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