British Rail Class 700

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The British Class 700 is an in- building series electric regional trains from the model developed by Siemens Rail Systems vehicle concept Desiro City. They are ready for passenger service on the Thameslink route in England from 2016.

Manufacturers and operators

The modernization of the Thameslink line was decided in 2008. In October 2009 the British government had the two remaining candidates Bombardier Transportation UK Ltd announced with Velocity and Siemens Plc with Cross London Trains. In June 2011, the British Ministry of Transport appointed ( Department for Transport ) manufacturer Siemens as consortium of Cross London Trains Consortium ( XLT consisting of Siemens Project Ventures GmbH, PPP fund Innisfree Ltd.. , And 3i Infrastructure plc. ) To the preferred bidder, for preferred bidder.

On June 27, 2013, came to sign the contract of twelve 55 - and 60 eight-car trainsets of the newly developed Desiro City, for its development of 50 million euros have been invested. It was about the order of the vehicles, including maintenance, initially for ten years two new depots in Crawley and at Hornsey in North East London. An option to extend the maintenance contract for 30 years has been agreed. The contract value of the rolling stock is around 1.8 billion euros ( 1.6 billion pounds). Their production takes place in Uerdingen at the Siemens factory.

Technology

The manufacturer follows as in ICx a motor car concept so that all traction components are integrated in a vehicle, not spread out over several. 825 kW of energy are converted into movement in the 700 class per motor car. That results from the specified total capacity of 3.3 MW (8- divider ) or 5 MW ( 12 dividers ), with each half of the car has the traction equipment.

Stretch

The trains will be from 2016 on the Thameslink route, the north -south link between Bedford via London to Brighton, are used. They are in the northern section with 25 kV AC overhead line to, and operated in the southern section with 750 V DC to power rail.