TGV postal

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TGV postal
TGV postal
TGV postal
Numbering: Half trains 901-907
TGV 923001-923007
Number: 7 half moves
Manufacturer: Alstom
Year of construction (s): 1983
Axis formula : Bo'Bo '+
Bo'2' 2 '2' 2 '2' 2 '2' Bo '+
Bo'Bo'
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Length: 200,190 mm
Height: 4130 mm
Width: 2904 mm
Empty mass: 345 t
Top speed: 270 km / h
Continuous output : 3100 kW (at 1.5 kV)
6450 kW (at 25 kV)
Power system : 1.5 / 3 kV direct voltage
25 kV 50 Hz alternating voltage
Number of traction motors: 12
Brake: el. Resistance
brake disc
brakes block brakes
Train control : TVM 300

The TGV postal (also: TGV Postal , TGV La Poste , TGVP , plural TGV postaux ) was a French TGV - high speed - Post railcars the French national postal company La Poste . The trains of the Bahnpost ran overnight between the French cities of Paris and Lyon . As announced in 2014, the traffic was stopped on June 27, 2015 due to the declining volume of urgent mail.

technology

The units specially designed for mail transport have a number of changes compared to the TGV Sud-Est : In order to enable level loading and unloading on the platform (1.15 m above the top of the rail ), the steel suspension was replaced by air suspension . Instead of a door at each end, the 18.7 m long cars were given a 1.40 m wide door in the middle (on both sides). By eliminating the interior fittings and all windows, the dead weight of a car could be reduced to 16.2 t and the permitted payload increased to 10.5 t per car. The axle load (without payload) is 13.3 t. The train configuration (two powered end cars , eight intermediate cars ) and the maximum speed of the series trains (270 km / h) were adopted unchanged from the series . Each trolley can hold up to 31 roller pallets, each with an empty weight of around 100 kg and a load of up to 250 kg. A car can be loaded and unloaded by two people in around ten minutes. Grids accommodate the trolleys, further securing takes place via parking brakes and tension belts between the struts of the grid.

For the project, a small series of TGV half-trains comprising five multiple units was used, which was built in 1981 by GEC Alsthom. In addition, two regular half-trains were converted in 1984. In 2012 three multiple units (block trains) were used; another served as a reserve. Five multiple units were recently used.

history

introduction

TGV Postal in May 2015

After extensive preliminary investigations, the French Post Office ( PTT ), in coordination with the SNCF, placed an order in September 1981 for the procurement of two TGV sets specially equipped for mail transport. In addition to letters , parcels , packages and press products are also transported.

The TGV postaux began operating in early October 1984 between Paris Gare de Lyon and Mâcon , a city not far from Lyon. Around 20,000 mail bags per day - around a third of the national mail volume - were transported on the new trains. The trains could move up to 254 small containers with a total weight of up to 65 t. The new trains took over the transport of mail from a number of passenger trains that previously carried rail mail cars on this route . At the same time, all airmail flights between the two major cities were canceled . In addition to cost savings, capacity has also been increased and quality improved in south-east France. There was also another route from Paris to Cavaillon .

Each set made one round trip per night. Taking into account track construction work at night , the travel time has been increased by 20 minutes to two hours and 30 minutes compared to passenger trains. While the sets were being procured by the postal company, the SNCF took over the maintenance of the vehicles and provided the drivers when operations began . The use of the train path was billed at a flat rate with the SNCF. The total costs (as of 1984) were around 30 D-Marks per train kilometer.

business

In June 2007, La Poste and SNCF announced that they would extend express freight services to the entire TGV network; Other logistics providers are also to be involved in the planned CEP traffic. At Charles de Gaulle Airport two new CEP terminals should this occur. In a further stage, the route network should also be expanded to Benelux , Germany , Switzerland , Italy and Spain . For this purpose, SNCF and La Poste founded the joint subsidiary Cargo Rail Express (Euro Carex). One of the first test runs brought a TGV postal service through the Channel Tunnel to St. Pancras station in London on March 21, 2012.

attitude

As part of a strategy paper adopted by the La Poste Supervisory Board at the end of June 2014, La Poste announced in July 2014 that it would discontinue TGV postal traffic by mid-2015. The reason given was the decline in the volume of mail. Since 2007, the number of letters to be delivered the next day has halved. This made transport by TGV uneconomical. Traffic was stopped on June 27, 2015. It had already been announced that from the end of June 2015, mail, including newspapers and business mail, would be transported with double-decker inloader trucks in combined transport. Since some of these trucks were to be transported by rail in combined transport , the number of mail items transported by rail in the future should be increased from five to eight percent.

See also

literature

  • Jean Cuynet, La traction électrique en France 1900–2005 , La Vie du Rail, Paris, 2005, ISBN 2915034389
  • Georges Mathieu, Le matériel moteur de la SNCF , La Vie du Rail, Paris, 2003, ISBN 291503415X
  • Marian Gaidzik, Bernd Kruse, Lutz Baur: ICE-G for fast freight traffic . In: Railway technical review . 36, No. 3, 1987, pp. 147-153

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b K.-UR: Approval trips of the TGV-POS in Germany . In: ahead . March 2006, ISSN  1438-0099 , p. 25.
  2. ↑ a b c Ralf Klingsieck: La Poste puts the letter TGV on the siding . In: Deutsche Verkehrs-Zeitung . No. 57 , July 18, 2014, ISSN  0342-166X .
  3. ^ A b Keith Barrow: Last post for French high-speed freight as postal TGVs bow out. In: International Railway Journal . June 29, 2015, accessed August 14, 2015 .
  4. ^ A b Mike Bent: The Dawn Of High Speed ​​Rail Freight Services . In: Railvolution . No. 2 , 2012, ZDB -ID 2508982-1 , p. 24-26 .
  5. ↑ a b Message No more Post-TGV . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . No. 8/9, 2015, p. 390.
  6. ↑ Announcement The TGV is entering the market with new offers . In: Railway technical review . 34, No. 1/2, 1985, p. 5.
  7. ↑ Fret GV plans Europe-wide high-speed network . In: Verkehrsrundschau , January 10, 2008
  8. ↑ La Poste wants to expand services to the entire TGV network Article of June 18, 2007
  9. ↑ Paris wants express trains for freight . In: Financial Times Deutschland , January 7, 2008.
  10. ↑ rail.co.uk: "International Railway History Made at St Pancras as a Cargo Carrying TGV Makes First Visit to the station" , March 22, 2012th
  11. ↑ France: La Poste discontinues TGV traffic / The three Post-TGV trains between Paris and southern France are only supposed to run until the end of June 2015. on eurailpress.de from August 6, 2014

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