Alstom Coradia LINT
The Alstom Coradia LINT is a family of transport diesel railcars. The acronym " LINT " stands for "light innovative transport railcars ". The LINT was designed by the company Linke- Hofmann -Busch ( LHB ) and will be distributed after the acquisition of LHB Alstom Alstom Coradia within the product family.
Technical Details
The LINT railcar are made of steel construction. The LINT 27 and 41 end bogie of a diesel-mechanical drive system is driven with horizontally installed Tognum in-line six -cylinder diesel engines via a cardan shaft per car body. The LINT 54 and 81 another motor bogie can be installed with a further drive investment in a end cars.
Up to three units are automatic central buffer couplings to a train coupled.
When brakes air operated disc brakes are used on one power car bogie are also magnetic rail brakes. When the parking brake spring storage are available. On older vehicles, brake systems of Mannesmann Rexroth pneumatics were used, later was changed to brake equipment of Knorr-Bremse. The vehicles for DB Regio and the Taunusbahn also use as a hydrodynamic retarder brake supplement; also have the vehicles of Taunusbahn about particulate filters.
The passenger information system, the position of the platform at the next stop, announce in a subset of vehicles. The announcement " Next stop: ... " is " left / right exit towards" supplemented with. This facilitates blind or visually impaired people to exit. In addition, " exit left / right" is displayed inside. The page announcement is usually controlled manually by pressing a button.
The vehicles are equipped with independent cab air conditioning and passenger compartment air conditioning. The car body are two roof air conditioners available. The waste heat from the diesel engines is used to heat the passenger spaces and driving cabs. There is not enough waste heat, so the same fired auxiliary heaters are switched on.
The control cabinets cab be produced as a special solution from Rittal and equipped by Alstom.
Types
The type designation is by an appended number to the approximate length in meters. The guided as series 0640 in the German Vehicle Register one piece type with a length of 27.26 m is called LINT 27 At Deutsche Bahn AG, he is designated as the class 640. The guided as series 0648 in the German Vehicle Register two-piece type with a length of 41.89 m ie in accordance LINT 41 At Deutsche Bahn AG, he is designated as the class 648.
Other configurations with electric drive and beyond with one or two intermediate cars are also available, however, have so far not sold.
LINT 27
The one-piece railcar have an output of 315 kW and a top speed of 120 km / h A specialty is the diesel- hydraulic transmission, while in all other successor series dieselmechnisches an automatic transmission was installed. A vehicle has 52 seats in the second class, eight seats in first class, and 13 folding seats in the multi -purpose compartment and thus according to the official count (address height) 65 seats in 2nd class.
The vehicles are mainly used on non-electrified branch lines in North Rhine -Westphalia by DB Regio NRW. You are on the routes Finnentrop - Olpe ( Bigge Valley Railway ), Siegen - Bad Berleburg ( Rothaarbahn ) and Dillenburg - Au (Sieg) go. In addition, five of these railcars of DB Regio Southeast in the Leipzig area were used from 2006 to the timetable change in 2008. As the first private railway in Germany ordered Vectus the end of 2004 ten LINT 27 These vehicles drive traction in all variants on the main lines between Limburg low- Hausen- Wiesbaden and Koblenz Limburg ( Lahn Valley Railway ). Other applications include Limburg - Montabaur - Siershahn (sub Westerwaldbahn ) and Limburg - Westerburg - Hachenburg - Old Churches - Au (Sieg) ( Oberwesterwald train).
The Veolia subsidiary HEX (Harz -Elbe - Express ) stops the trains since 2005 on the routes Halberstadt - a Bernburg (Saale ), as well as amplifiers car - Blankenburg and rounders. The vehicles will be operated by Veolia Transport and waited for the traffic industry VIS GmbH Halberstadt.
A new field of application is the LINT 27 on the Upper Ruhrtalbahn ( KBS 435). There, the vehicles are used since end of April 2008 as a bicycle carriage to gain the two-part LINT 41. The enormous popularity of RuhrtalRadweg from Winterberg to Duisburg made the conversion and use of vehicles required, while the interior seating has been mostly replaced by bicycle shelters.
LINT 41
The LINT 41 consists of two car halves in the middle of the train based on a Jakobs truck. The vehicles have four exterior doors, optionally a toilet per trainset and a payload range. Some transport companies (for example, three-country train, North Western Railway ) are located in the door area and ticket machines. In the high floor section between motor bogie and entry area of both cars are under the floor depending 315 kW installed up to 390 kW payable engines and drive each of the axes of the end bogie through cardan shafts and axle.
The LINT -41 trainsets are used by various railroad companies, especially in northern Germany. The DB regional train Schleswig-Holstein is under the DB Class 648 from Kiel six of these traits ( 648001-006 ) on the train route Kiel - Neumünster (since 2009 - previously NOB ) a. Since 2005, DB Regio NRW uses 29 vehicles ( 648101-121, 201-207 ). These are the lines Dortmund Hbf - Winterberg, Dortmund Hbf - Iserlohn, Dortmund Hbf - Lüdenscheid, Unna - Neuenrade and Dillenburg - Au (Sieg) go. In addition, 27 more railcars ( 648251-277 ) in the Harz -Weser- network from Braunschweig in use.
When resin -Elbe -Express ( HEX) drive the LINT 41 since 2005 on the routes Hall - Halberstadt - Vienenburg and (Berlin - ) Magdeburg - Thale
Other railway companies are: Abellio Rail NRW, AKN, Arriva, railways and transport companies Elbe- Weser ( EVB ), Hessian State Railways ( HLB, ten pieces on Konigsteiner train and Taunusbahn ) Lokalbanen (Denmark), Ostseelandverkehr ( OLA ), nordbahn ( NBE), Nord-Ostsee- Bahn (NOB ), North Western Railway ( NCA ), Syntus (Netherlands) VECTUS, Erixx ( erx, 27 Units in Heidebahn and America line) and the Vestsjællands Lokalbaner A / S ( Denmark). Owner of the LINT used in Lower Saxony of 41 private railways (North Western Railway, EVB, Erixx until 2011, euro bahn) is the national transport company Lower Saxony. Their 24 railcars of the first series to be modernized by 2015 in Braunschweig at Alstom.
30 of railcars used by Arriva include the leasing company Alpha Trains, those of HLB are the property of " vehicle management region Frankfurt Rhein Main GmbH " ( fahma ).
For the Nier -Rhein- Emscher network, the North Western Railway has ordered 28 railcars of type LINT 41H. The Nier -Rhein- Emscher network includes the lines RE 10 Dusseldorf - Kleve, RB 31 Duisburg - Xanten, RB 36 Oberhausen - Ruhrort and the RB 44 Dorsten - Oberhausen.
From Bavaria, there were orders for the former DB Regio Middle Franconia (now DB Regio francs), which won the tender for the diesel network Nuremberg. 27 two -car trains ( LINT 41) were delivered to DB Regio from January 2008 as 648301-327.
The Bavarian Regiobahn ( Veolia Transport) sets since December, 2008 16 LINT 41 diesel power in Augsburg II with an increased engine output of 2 × 390 kW, which are equipped with two Mercedes- Benz six -cylinder diesel engines. Another ten trains were taken until December 2009. Are driving the routes Augsburg - Weilheim - Schongau, Augsburg - Ingolstadt and Eichstätt Bahnhof - Eichstätt Stadt.
The regional train Schleswig -Holstein provides its services in the so-called Ostnetz since December 2009, with 25 Lint 41 ( 648331-355 ). The first 648.3 were delivered in late August 2009. You are on the routes Lübeck - used Aumuehle - Puttgarden, Lübeck - Neustadt (Holstein), Lüneburg - Lubeck - Kiel and Büchenberg.
Since December 2011, up to 120 km / h LINT on the routes around Soltau, to Hanover, beech wood used in North Heath, Uelzen and Bremen. For this, the country's transport company Niedersachsen ordered 27 diesel multiple units. These trains have particulate filters and video surveillance.
In February 2010, a further order for 23 Coradia LINT -41 trains with the Hessian State Railways (HLB ) was signed. The trains will be delivered in December 2011 in Eastern and Central Hesse to the Vogelsberg Railway, railway and Rhön Lahntalbahn used. With this order, a total of 500 LINT were sold.
Abellio Rail NRW has ordered new Coradia LINT -41 trains operating on the S 7 S-Bahn Rhein- Ruhr as of 15 December 2013 ( formerly The Müngstener ) .. you have an entry height of 76 cm and an optimized front crash. They also differ from the listed curb weight of the previous LINT 41. They weigh around 72 tonnes and have a gross vehicle weight of 92 t, the axle load is 16 tonnes.
In June 2012, DB Regio ordered another 14 LINT 41 with 112 seats, mainly for regional transport in Rhineland- Palatinate. The use will be in the "Diesel Power West " from 2015.
As part of the acquired in March 2013 tender " subnet East-West " Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is 41 for the operation of the regional lines Lübeck DB Regio more LINT - order Ueckermuende city harbor / Stettin - Bad Kids - Pasewalk.
Technical Problems
In February 2010, the regional train Schleswig- Holstein stated that the reliability of the new LINT not yet satisfied the requirements of due to technical problems. In particular, there was damage to the turbochargers; these have been tested and replaced if necessary.
Almost three years later, in December 2012, reports the Statewide Verkehrsservicegesellschaft Schleswig -Holstein in its customer magazine nah.sh:
" The quality of operation, however, is clouded by the fact that the regional train Schleswig -Holstein due to ongoing problems with their diesel railcar VT 648 series since the end of June as scheduled end of life vehicles the VT series uses 628. [ ... ] "
LINT 54
The DMUs of type LINT 54 consist of two car bodies, which rest respectively on two end bogies. You will be among others equipped with air conditioning, Notsprecheinrichtung for train drivers and a video monitor.
Planned operations are:
- On the seven lines of the Cologne Diesel Network by DB Regio NRW from December 2013. LINT this purpose 18 54 (180 seats) and 38 LINT 81 (300 seats) were appointed by the DB AG. After considerable delays due to missing authorizations, the introduction is gradual in the first half of 2014.
- On the five lines of the sub-lot 2 of the diesel network Niedersachsen -southeast through Erixx from December 2014. The 28 railcars are only two drive systems have ( B'2 ' 2' B') and a top speed of 120 km / h, but only 157 seats.
- On the line A1, the AKN railway. AKN Railway ordered 14 LINT drive trains to be replaced on the main route between Hamburg and Neumünster LHB VT 2E from 1976 from 2015.
- On the ten lines of Diesel Southwest network in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. This is operated from December 2014 and December 2015 from the Regentalbahn AG and DB Regio southwest. In June 2012, DB Regio ordered 24 LINT 54 with 160 seats, mainly for regional transport in Rhineland- Palatinate. The insert is done in the diesel power Southwest from 2015.
- On the routes Frankfurt -Saarbrücken and Kaiserslautern - Koblenz from December 2014. In September 2012, ordered the Netinera LINT 63 trainsets. They should be built both as LINT 54 (160 seats) as well as LINT 81 (270 seats), each with 140 km / speed limit.
In April 2013 622 001 DB made first test drives. The maiden voyage for the Cologne Diesel Network from Cologne Central Station to the DB plant in Cologne -Deutz took place on 15 January 2014. Here also the brand name was VAREO presented, which is composed of the initial letters of the catchment areas Voreifel, Ahr, Rhine, Eifel and Oberbergisches country.
LINT 81
These vehicles are similar to the LINT 54, you also have a motorized means car, which has two of its own end trucks.
The German diesel railcar LINT 81 have the class designation 620 and are to be used by DB Regio Rheinland in Cologne Diesel Network and Regentalbahn AG Diesel Southwest network, analogous to the above-described LINT 54 The equipment will be similar. The first train of the series 622.0/622.5 was delivered in late 2012. The composition of the three -car trains is 620.0/621.0/620.5.
Current use
Are used, the vehicles ( their number accordingly) currently (2011) in almost all of Germany. There is a deployment summary for the following regions:
Stand: 09/2011