SL X60
The unit trains Alstom Coradia Nordic belong to the vehicle family of modular, fully niederfluriger commuter links trainsets Alstom Coradia LIREX ( The abbreviation LIREX stands for Light, innovative Regional Express), the manufacturer Alstom Transport Germany, formerly Alstom LHB, Salzgitter, former Linke- Hofmann -Busch wagon vehicle -Maschinen GmbH. The first vehicle of this family was propelled radially adjusting Einzelachsfahrwerken LIREX the DB Class 618, which was originally intended to serve as a testbed for new technology in transport. The goal was a modular Multiple Unit with electric, diesel-electric or hybrid drive in lightweight construction.
From the concept originated with conventional end bogies and Jakobs trucks between the trailers, by further developing a family of fully low-floor train set. First the appropriate position for operation in the Nordic countries subfamily Coradia Nordic was developed and later derived from the subfamily Coradia Continental for the railway operating in Central Europe.
Types
The Alstom Coradia Nordic have been sold in different types of Swedish operators:
The trains are designed and manufactured at Alstom Transport Germany in Salzgitter.
X60
As the first production vehicle in the Lirex family of six car electric multiple unit Alstom Coradia Nordic X60 for AB Storstockholms Lokaltrafik (SL ), from which 71 pieces were delivered emerged. The X60 SL are 107.1 m long six-car train engine trains running on seven -axle bogies. You have 374 seats and 530 standing places. In operation, coupled together, usually two X60 into a composite, so that a train can carry nearly 2,000 people at once.
The technical parameters heard that the soil height at 760 mm above SO amounts to 92 % of the car surface - in the passage, it rises to 830 mm and reaches a maximum of 1080 mm. The trainsets are designed for up to 160 km / h; in operation in Stockholm is run with a maximum of 140 km / h, as the vehicles are used in a common circulation plan with the older train sets of the type X10. Tempo 80 is achieved within 20 seconds. The six -car trainsets are 374 seats and 565 standing places. The trains are 3258 mm wide and has a height of 4280 mm above the running surface of a total length of 107.1 m.
The cars will be manufactured in Salzgitter. Suppliers are SMA ( Niestetal ) for the auxiliary converter, Faiveley Transport (formerly HAGENUK - Hanseatic Apparatus Company Neufeldt and Kuhnke ) and MAB ( machinery and equipment ) ( Schkeuditz ) for the air conditioning of the passenger and driver compartments and Faiveley Transport ( Witten) for the brake system, KNORR- Frensistemi (Florence) or BFG (Bahrain) for the toilets and the Franz Kiel GmbH & Co. KG ( Nördlingen ) for the passenger seats.
In May 2010, a new order for 12 more X60 has been issued that will operate from 2012 between Stockholm and Uppsala.
X61 / X62
After the first vehicles are at SL in operation, other similar vehicles have been ordered by other railway companies in Sweden. For these contracts are shorter, four-part versions, which are called X61 and X62.
Skånetrafiken has ordered for the contract awarded the Pågatåg regional train service in Skåne than 49 X61 designated four-part Coradia Nordic at a total cost of about 245 million euros from Alstom LHB. The first train is scheduled to be completed in 2009 and the last in 2011. The trains get an even lower floor and completely redesigned interiors, where the number of seats per car is somewhat lower and the transition is partially wider than in the X60 trains. These deliveries were delayed due to quality problems. The first train was delivered in March 2010. The vehicles have passed since the fall of 2010 in regularly scheduled service.
Östgötatrafiken appointed in March 2008, a further five four -car trains for transport in the region of Östergötland. Jönköping AB Länstrafik issued in June 2008, Alstom a contract for the supply of two regional trains Coradia Nordic. These seven features are used in passenger traffic since the end of 2010 between Norrköping and Jönköping.
Norrtåg In October 2008, eleven four-part, designated because of the higher top speed of 180 km / h as the X62 trains for transport in Västernorrland County and Västerbotten County ordered (Northern Sweden). The trains will also have a bistro compartment. The trains will operate the new route between Sundsvall- Umeå and Sundsvall- Östersund existing routes - Storlien, Umeå and Luleå Luleå - Kiruna. The delivery of the trains should extend from autumn 2010 until the end of 2012.
Västtrafik has ordered around Gothenburg in December 2008, eleven four -piece X61 for the S -Bahn traffic ( " Pendeltåg "). The trains will run for Västtrafik than comfortable suburban trains on the routes Kungsbacka and Gothenburg Gothenburg and Alingsås Älvängen. The trains will be delivered in the autumn of 2010 until the end of 2012. Västtrafik has ordered eleven more four -piece X61 in December 2010.
According to a press release from Alstom 's orders Norrtåg and Västtrafik include a total of 23 vehicles.