Tatra T5C5
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| Number: | 322 railcars |
| Manufacturer: | ČKD Tatra Mountains |
| Year of construction (s): | 1978-1984 |
| Length: | 14,700 mm |
| Height: | 3140 mm |
| Width: | 2500 mm |
| Trunnion Distance: | 6700 mm |
| Bogie axle base: | 1900 mm |
| Empty mass: | 18.3 t |
| Top speed: | 65 km / h |
| Hourly output : | 4 × 45 kW = 180 kW |
| Motor type: | TE 023 |
| Operating mode: | Bi-directional open-plan railcar |
| Seats: | 28 |
| Standing room: | 72 |
The Tatra T5C5 tramway railcars are a series of large-capacity railcars manufactured by the Czechoslovakian manufacturer ČKD Tatra , which were developed primarily for the Budapest tram network . After the USSR , the GDR , Romania , Yugoslavia and Egypt, Hungary became another buyer of Tatra trams.
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development
In 1978 two prototypes of the type T5C5 with the numbers 4000 and 4001 were created, which came to Prague for testing and were passed on to Budapest that same year. The T5C5 are the first bidirectional cars from ČKD, after the manufacturer only supplied one-way cars with accelerator control in the PCC tradition for several decades. Instead of the accelerator, they have a multi-stage cam switch mechanism with series parallel connection, which is not operated by a pedal as before , but by a hand lever. Each car is equipped with a driver's cab and three doors on each side of the car. This means that one- or two-way trains can be set up in multiple control with up to four cars; two- and three-car trains run in passenger operation. Individual railcars are rarely used; this is only possible on lines that have turning loops or track triangles at both endpoints. The cars are equipped with Scharfenberg couplings and contact attachments. The contact attachments are symmetrically assigned to allow a free train formation; a railcar can be supplied with energy via them. This means that two-car trains run with only one pantograph. For Budapest conditions, the wheel sets are provided with a wheel tire profile that comes close to the dimensions of long-distance railways.
commitment
The cars are only used in Budapest. 322 vehicles were delivered between 1978 and 1984. They were given the numbers 4000 - 4171 and 4200 - 4349.
modernization
After the vehicles had been in use for around 20 years, the Budapest transport company began modernizing the first 80 vehicles. The wagons received:
- an IGBT chopper control
- a matrix target display
- a new interior in yellow colors
- a new driver's control panel
The modernization of the first two cars, which are now given the new type designation T5C5K, was completed in the Budapest main workshop Fehér út at the end of November 2002.
The railcar 4304 is a test vehicle for various single-arm pantographs.
