SBB Re 460

SBB Re 460
Re 460 with IC2000 car
Numbering:	Re 460,000-118
Number:	119
Manufacturer:	SLM , FIG
Year of construction (s):	1991-1996
Axis formula :	Bo'Bo '
Gauge :	1,435 mm
Length over buffers:	18,500 mm
Height:	4,300 mm
Width:	3,000 mm
Trunnion Distance:	11,000 mm
Bogie axle base:	2,800 mm
Total wheelbase:	13,800 mm
Service mass:	84.0 t
Top speed:	200 km / h
Continuous output :	6,100 kW
Starting tractive effort:	300 kN
Continuous tensile force:	100 kN
Impeller diameter:	1,110 mm
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz
Power transmission:	Overhead line

The Re 460 is a four-axle multi-purpose locomotive of the SBB . It belongs to the Lok 2000 family.

history

Political background

In the 1970s , the SBB evaluated suitable forms of high-speed transport for Switzerland . The Bahn 2000 project slowly took shape and various cost-benefit analyzes led to the realization that the infrastructure and rolling stock should be designed for a maximum speed of 200 km / h. Despite the availability of (but not yet tested) newer technology, SBB ordered the fifth and sixth series (45 + 27 pieces) of the proven Re 4/4 ^II , which were delivered between 1981 and 1985. The rolling stock industry, represented by SLM and BBC , built the four prototype locomotives Re 4/4 ^IV at the same time , which were handed over to the SBB in 1982.

Due to the decline in traffic, the series Re 4/4 ^{IV was not ordered} , especially since the thyristor technology had been out of date since the development of three-phase drive technology. For the SBB, the Zurich S-Bahn came to the fore. A feasibility study by the SLM on a heavy high-speed locomotive, as requested by the SBB, showed that this was feasible, but important development steps were still missing. In 1985, SBB placed a development contract with the SLM / BBC consortium for the first time. A specification sheet was worked out jointly by 1987, which also represented the offer from the industry.

At the end of 1987, SBB ordered a first series of twelve locomotives for passenger transport, and in mid-1989 a second series of a further twelve units. The first twelve pieces were as Re 4/4 ^VI ordered under the operating numbers from 10,701 to 10,712, which, however, at that time of the Ae 3/6 ^I were occupied.

In autumn 1989 the Federal Council commissioned SBB to provide capacities for piggyback traffic. The SLM / ABB consortium also took part in the tender , with their further performance-optimized concept, Lok 2000 and two variants of it. The consortium won the tender and in mid-1990 was awarded the contract for a further 75 machines, which also became known as ' Hupac ' locomotives. This was the first time that SBB had ordered 99 locomotives of one type that were only available on the drawing board.

Discussions between BLS and the SLM / ABB consortium also began in autumn 1989 , which ultimately led to the development of the Re 465 .

Re 460 058-1 in red near Schinznach Dorf.

Originally two or four-stream versions of the Re 460 were to be ordered for freight transport. However, this project was abandoned in favor of the SBB Re 482 , which was specially designed for freight traffic , as even the price of a Re 460 at that time was significantly higher than that of a comparable freight locomotive available today.

For the time being, the Re 460 is the last full-line mainline locomotive that was almost entirely designed by Swiss companies. Locomotive construction in Switzerland had to be stopped for economic reasons. Only Stadler Rail still produces locomotives for shunting and cogwheel operation in Switzerland .

Development history of the Re 460

An important building block for the development of the Re 460 was the Re 456 developed by SLM and BBC , which was supplied to private railways from 1987 onwards. The locomotive, externally related to the Re 4/4 ^IV , was the first converter locomotive in Switzerland to work with GTO thyristors and three-phase asynchronous motors . From 1989 a further development of the Re 456 with a new design was also used by the SBB as the Re 450 . Parts of the electrical equipment of the Re 456/450 formed the technical basis of the locomotive 2000.

The first Re 4/4 460, as it was called at that time, was presented to the public in early 1991 in a non-roadworthy condition. In mid-1991 the 460,000 in Oerlikon covered its first meters on its own. The first Re 460 was officially delivered on January 28, 1992. By the beginning of 1996, 119 Re 460 units had been built, which were given the operating numbers 460 000 to 460 118 by the SBB.

business

With the commissioning of the Re 460 from the could 1920 originating Ae 3/6 I and Ae 4/7 and from the 1940s coming -Jahren Re 4/4 ^I be scrapped. The Re 460 were in regular traffic from 1994 after many teething problems had been eliminated. In passenger traffic they downgraded the Re 4/4 ^II to lower services.

Initially, the Re 460 were used in both passenger and freight traffic - sometimes with multiple controls . When SBB was divisionalized on September 1, 1999, Re 460 079–118 were part of freight transport. In order to be able to use all locomotives that are suitable for 200 km / h and remote control by the IC or IC-2000 control car for passenger transport, the Re 6/6 were reallocated and SBB Cargo also procured the international cargo locomotive as a replacement Bombardier Traxx , which has the same performance but only has a top speed of 140 km / h. On January 1, 2003, 079–095, 2004 096–102 and 2005 the remaining locomotives were taken over by the Passenger Transport division of Cargo. The Re 460 is now mainly used on IC2000 trains or shuttle trains consisting of EW IV and IC-Bt control cars.

modernization

Re 460 084 refit

The SBB announced that all of their 119 locomotives will be modernized by the end of 2022. Among other things that are GTO by - IGBT - inverter replaced, which feed the traction motors with power and recover braking energy. Thanks to the new converters, SBB saved 27 gigawatt hours of energy every year. After the conversion, the locomotives can be recognized from the outside by means of the logo and the number attached to the side on the front as well as a new, shiny red paint job. As of September 2017, eleven locomotives had been converted, with the new converter only being installed in one locomotive and subjected to extensive tests. The number on the front has been dispensed with since the seventh rebuilt locomotive.

Variations of the Re 460

Norwegian El 18 locomotive

From 2000 onwards, some Re 460s with radio remote control were used as Ref 460s in Gotthard freight traffic. The Re 460 was ordered in a slightly more powerful version than the BLS Re 465 for the BLS Lötschbergbahn . Other offshoots of the Lok 2000 family can also be found at foreign railway companies, for example for the wide-gauge VR-Yhtymä (Finnish State Railways) as Sr2 (46 pieces). 22 went to the Norwegian Norges Statsbaner as El 18 and two machines under the designation KCRC TLN / TLS to the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCR) (HongKong / China) for operation between Kowloon (Hong Kong) and Guangzhou .

Advertising locomotives

Re 460 advertising locomotive

The film manufacturer Agfa has worked out a concept for full mobile advertising together with SBB. The general management of the Federal Railroad agreed and the first advertising locomotives, the Re 460 015 in the Agfa corporate colors and their company logo, hit the rails in 1994. At almost the same time, an inquiry was made by Ciba, now Novartis . Ciba also reached an agreement with SBB, the Re 460 016 followed its sister in May 1994. Today, however, all machines are approved for advertising. Nobody thought at the beginning that the advertising locomotives would be such a big success. Whether for advertising companies, railway photographers or model railway manufacturers, the Re 460 advertising locomotives are a welcome change. No other Swiss locomotive wore as many different colored clothes as the Re 460.

Baptismal name

See also: Names of Re 460 on Commons

Re 460,000 gray wood
Re 460 001 Lötschberg
Re 460 002 Zealand
Re 460 003 Milieu du Monde
Re 460 004 Uetliberg
Re 460 005 Val d'Anniviers
Re 460 006 Lavaux
Re 460 007 Junior
Re 460 008 La Gruyère
Re 460 009 Le jet d'eau
Re 460 010 Löwenberg
Re 460 011 Léman
Re 460 012 Erguël
Re 460 013 North Vaudois
Re 460 014 Val du Trient
Re 460 015
Re 460 016 Rohrdorferberg Reuss Valley
Re 460 017 Les Diablerets
Re 460 018 -
Re 460 019 Terre Sainte
Re 460 020 Idée suisse
Re 460 021 -
Re 460 022 Sihl
Re 460 023 Wankdorf
Re 460 024 Rhine Valley
Re 460 025 harrow
Re 460 026 Fricktal
Re 460 027 Joggeli
Re 460 028 Seetal
Re 460 029 Eulach
Re 460 030 Säntis
Re 460 031 Chaumont
Re 460 032 -
Re 460 033 -
Re 460 034 Aare
Re 460 035 -
Re 460 036 Welcome to Japan (Franches-Montagnes)
Re 460 037 Sempacher See
Re 460 038 Hauenstein
Re 460 039 Rochers de Naye
Re 460 040 bowl
Re 460 041 Mendrisiotto
Re 460 042 Albis
Re 460 043 tricorn
Re 460 044 Zugerland
Re 460 045 Rigi
Re 460 046 Polmengo
Re 460 047 Maderanertal
Re 460 048 Züri Wyland
Re 460 049 pan handle
Re 460 050 Züspa
Re 460 051 Staffelegg
Re 460 052 Eigenamt
Re 460 053 Suhrental
Re 460 054 border triangle
Re 460 055 Lillehammer
Re 460 056 Leutschenbach I, today: on the road without a name
Re 460 057 Val de Ruz
Re 460 058 La Côte
Re 460 059 La Béroche

Re 460 060 Val de Travers
Re 460 061 Wiggertal
Re 460 062 Ergolz
Re 460 063 Brunegg
Re 460 064 myths
Re 460 065 Rotsee
Re 460 066 Finse
Re 460 067 Hohle Gasse
Re 460 068 Gütsch
Re 460 069 Museum of Transport
Re 460 070 -
Re 460 071 Mittelland
Re 460 072 Reuss
Re 460 073 Monte Ceneri
Re 460 074 -
Re 460 075 sheep matt
Re 460 076 Leventina
Re 460 077 Chunnel
Re 460 078 Monte Generoso
Re 460 079 Weissenstein / Morgestraich
Re 460 080 Tre Valli
Re 460 081 Pfänder
Re 460 082 Ceresio
Re 460 083 -
Re 460 084 Helvetia
Re 460 085 Pilatus
Re 460 086 Ägerisee
Re 460 087 Säuliamt
Re 460 088 Limmat
Re 460 089 Freiamt
Re 460 090 Goffersberg
Re 460 091 Werdenberg
Re 460 092 Fridolin
Re 460 093 Rhine
Re 460 094 Rhätia
Re 460 095 Bachtel
Re 460 096 Furttal
Re 460 097 Studenland
Re 460 098 Balsberg
Re 460 099 Lake Constance
Re 460 100 Tösstal
Re 460 101 Bözberg
Re 460 102 warehouses
Re 460 103 Heitersberg
Re 460 104 Toggenburg
Re 460 105 Fürstenland
Re 460 106 Munot
Re 460 107 Glärnisch
Re 460 108 Engadin
Re 460 109 Alpstein
Re 460 110 Mariaberg
Re 460 111 Kempt
Re 460 112 Thur Valley
Re 460 113 Irchel
Re 460 114 Circus Knie
Re 460 115 Heidiland
Re 460 116 Eastern Switzerland
Re 460 117 Lake Zurich
Re 460 118 Gotthard / Gottardo

literature

Hans-Bernhard Schönborn: Locomotive 2000. Re 460/465 - most modern electric locomotive in Switzerland . GeraMond Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-932785-51-7 .
The renovation of the Re 460 for 200 km / h . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . No. 10 , 2006, ISSN 1421-2811 , pp. 498 .

Web links

Commons : SBB Re 460 - collection of images, videos and audio files

SBB Re 460 and BLS Re 465 from Bruno Lämmli
Pictures of the Re 460 on railfaneurope.net
Picture page for SBB Re 460 "Lok 2000"
Re 460 SBB-CFF-FFS - Jernbane.Net

Individual evidence

↑ The maximum permitted speed is 200 km / h. For this approval, the vehicle must be able to drive 15% faster; the technical top speed is therefore 230 km / h, see article on the Re 460 by Bruno Lämmli . However, this is not operationally relevant; the table always contains the maximum permitted speed.
↑ Modernization of the Re 460: the first prototype is on the rails. SBB press release, December 19, 2014, accessed on May 6, 2018 .
^ Modernization of SBB Re 460. In: Bahnonline.ch. November 24, 2015, accessed May 6, 2018 .
↑ Seventh modernized SBB 460 is ready: locomotive no. 031 has no front number. In: Railcolor.net. June 26, 2017, accessed May 6, 2018 .

[1] The maximum permitted speed is 200 km / h. For this approval, the vehicle must be able to drive 15% faster; the technical top speed is therefore 230 km / h, see article on the Re 460 by Bruno Lämmli . However, this is not operationally relevant; the table always contains the maximum permitted speed.

[2] Modernization of the Re 460: the first prototype is on the rails. SBB press release, December 19, 2014, accessed on May 6, 2018 .

[3] Modernization of SBB Re 460. In: Bahnonline.ch. November 24, 2015, accessed May 6, 2018 .

[4] Seventh modernized SBB 460 is ready: locomotive no. 031 has no front number. In: Railcolor.net. June 26, 2017, accessed May 6, 2018 .