Siemens ES 2007
As Siemens ES 2007 (EUR Sprinter) is a type of locomotive of the German manufacturer Rail Systems (formerly Siemens Mobility, formerly Siemens Transportation Systems) for a common basis of diesel and electric mean locomotives. It is a completely revised successor to the original EuroSprinter from 1992 and its variants.
Locomotives of this type were delivered to the railways of Portugal (CP) , the Belgian railways (NMBS / SNCB) and the private rental company MRCE as four-axle electric locomotives and to the Lithuanian railways (LG) as six-axle diesel locomotives.
As part of a Siemens in- house exhibition on July 14, 2007, the first of the locomotives for Lithuania was presented alongside various classic EuroRunners .
background
Since the development of the original EuroSprinter , the safety regulations for locomotives had changed several times, so that adjustments to the locomotive body were required time and again . In addition, many vehicle types of that generation were based directly on large orders from former state railways and were considered relatively expensive on the market. The diesel locomotives also had their own technical basis under the name EuroRunner .
In contrast, the two most important competitors on the market, Bombardier with the Traxx and Alstom with the Prima , had modular concepts in which a single locomotive body is used for all variants, for freight or passenger transport and as a diesel or electric locomotive.
Electric locomotives
ES46B1-A: Comboios de Portugal CP series 4700
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The first order for a locomotive from this family was made in January 2006. At that time, the Portuguese State Railways ordered 15 locomotives with an option for 10 more with an output of 4600 kilowatts, significantly less than the usual EuroSprinter from Siemens. Due to the performance, the CP would be called 4600 , but to avoid confusion with the 5600 (an ES64P), the official name is LE 4700 . The locomotives were delivered from August 2008. The locomotives are approved for a top speed of 140 km / h.
ES46B1-A option
On July 13, 2007, the CP exercised the option mentioned above, this was the variant ES 46 B1 . These ten other locomotives were delivered in 2009. Pre-assembly took place at the Siemens locomotive plant in Munich, Krauss-Maffei-Strasse, and final assembly at EMEF , a subsidiary of Portuguese Railways.
NMBS / SNCB series 18/19
In 2006 the Belgian State Railways ordered 60 locomotives of this type with an output of 6000 kW. In 2008 a new order was placed for a further 60 machines, the total order volume was 440 million euros. The locomotives were designed with three-system capability for use under 1.5 and 3 kV direct and 25 kV alternating voltage and also received on- board equipment for the train control systems in France ( KVB ), Belgium ( TBL1, TBL1 +, TBL2 and Crocodile ) and Luxembourg (Crocodile, ETCS Level 1 ). There was an option to install the Dutch ATB-EG . The locomotives have a top speed of 200 km / h.
With the 18 series, a series designation was given again under which four-system locomotives that had already been manufactured by Alsthom in the past and have now been decommissioned were carried. This was not taken into account in the numbering, the counting begins as with the Alsthom series at 1801.
96 locomotives of this type were procured as class 18 (1801 to 1896) and 24 as class 19 (1901 to 1924). The locomotives of the 19 series are equipped on one side with automatic MUX central buffer couplings for operation with push-pull trains with M6 wagons , which were previously hauled by locomotives of the 27 series and are winged and strengthened like multiple units, the 18 series machines have screw couplings at both ends .
Diesel locomotives
Siemens had announced different engines with 2000, 3000 and 3500 kilowatts for the diesel version, but as with the old EuroRunner, there were only orders for the 2000 kilowatt version.
ER20CF: Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (LG)
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In July 2005, the order for 34 six-axle diesel locomotives was announced by the Lithuanian State Railways . They should have an output of 2000 kilowatts and thus correspond to the only actually existing variant of the EuroRunner. In the period that followed, it became known that a newly developed locomotive body that corresponds to that of the new electric locomotives would be used here as well. The delivery of these locomotives was supposed to start in June 2007, but was delayed. In mid-July, the first locomotive was shown on auxiliary bogies at a Siemens presentation in Munich. The 34 locomotives were transferred to the Sassnitz-Mukran ferry port by 2010 with the original bogies and non-powered standard -gauge transfer wheel sets. The broad gauge wheel sets with the traction motors were installed here before the locomotives are shipped to Lithuania. This was possible because the Mukran ferry port is equipped with broad gauge tracks and rail ferries operate to Lithuania.
successor
The successor to the EuroSprinter platform is the Siemens Vectron platform, which is similar to the EuroSprinter 2007 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Siemens. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 29, 2007 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ a b SNCB HLE 18-19. In: Railcolor.net. Retrieved August 31, 2012 .
- ↑ Matthias Chollet, Jörg Hanay: Diesel- electric freight locomotive Eurorunner® ER20 CF for the Lithuanian State Railways. (PDF) Siemens, March 30, 2007, archived from the original on August 12, 2011 ; Retrieved July 17, 2007 .
- ↑ Jens Chlebowski, Christian Thoma: The new generation of locomotives for European rail traffic. (PDF) Siemens, March 2010, archived from the original on September 21, 2013 ; Retrieved July 17, 2007 .