RENFE Class 130

As series 130, the Spanish railway company Renfe refers to a series of 45 umspurbaren high-speed trains. The fabricated by a consortium of Bombardier and Talgo trains are also called Talgo 250. Due to the optical similarity to the Talgo 350 train this is colloquially called Patito: called (in German " little duck ").

Technology

Each train consists of two power cars, which were developed by Talgo in cooperation with Bombardier. In between are classified car type Talgo 7 eleven low-floor ( floor height of 760 mm). Power heads and wagon train are connected to shell sleeve couplings, but the head pieces are venturing structurally prepared for the installation of side buffers and screw coupling.

Can be reached at 25 kV AC voltage at a top speed of 250 km / h at 3 kV DC voltage of 200 km / h The trains can pass axle changing stations at a speed of 15 km / hr. A special feature is that the power heads are umspurbar.

The trains are equipped with a number of train control systems ( ETCS Level 1 and 2, LZB and ASFA ) and can therefore be used liberally on the Spanish stock and high-speed railway network.

History

Procurement

The Board of Directors of the RENFE decided the procurement of 141 additional high-speed trains, including 26 Talgo 250 trains on two sessions in late February and early March 2004. Including a maintenance contract, the contract sum amounted to 377 million euros. The production share of Talgo was estimated at 88 million euros. The contract was officially announced about two months later by the contractor.

Operation

The units were used from November 6, 2007 in commercial operation on the ( broad gauge ) Madrid- Valladolid - Gijón. Since the commissioning of the new Madrid - Valladolid regelspurigen this is frequented daily by eight Talgo 250 pairs of trains under the generic name Alvia, which connect via the existing broad gauge network, inter alia, also Santander, Bilbao and Irun directly to the state capital.

In the summer of 2009 it was reported that under the name Talgo RD 300 from the Talgo 250, a prototype is developed, which shall be designed for speeds up to 300 km / hr. (July 2009)