ÄŒD Class 680
ČD series 680 is a seven-part electrical tilting trainset of the Czech railway company České Railways ( ČD ). Technically, he is the type of Alstom Pendolino. The trains under the brand name Super City Pendolino train type and provide the highest quality of ČD dar.
History
Decided in 1995 ČD to introduce a high-quality long-distance train on the route Berlin- Prague-Vienna. The required features should initially provide a consortium of Czech rail vehicle manufacturers CKD and Moravskoslezská VAGONKA and Siemens Transportation Systems and the tilting technology specialists Fiat Ferroviaria.
In June 2003, the first prototype of the Fiat successor Alstom has been delivered. There were then a few teething problems that have been resolved in a two-year trial period. By 2005, the production trainsets were delivered. As the price of the trains was significantly higher than originally planned, only seven trainsets were purchased instead of the planned ten. Overall, the trains cost CZK 4.5 billion (approx. € 180 million).
Since January 2005, the trains operated in the forward mode on the routes from Prague to Ostrava and Decin. In January 2006, the trains had to be shut again due in part to serious technical problems. After elimination of the defects, the trains since then schedule a regular service ..
In summer 2006 licensing runs found on the Franz Josef Railway in Austria and in the fall of 2006 in Germany.
Use
Since December 2005, the trains will be used as Super City Pendolino between Prague and Ostrava in an approximate two- hour intervals. On the 358 km long route that handled the train in under three hours, frequented the winter of 2005 /06 a total of six pairs of trains, most of which were formed from two units. Since the timetable change in December 2006 to December 2009 reversed two pairs of trains between Prague and Vienna, both now run again with a ÖBB 1216 and long-distance car. A pair of trains wrong to December 2009 daily between Prague and Bratislava, but was set back due to low demand. Since June 12, 2009 runs between Prague and Třinec the Super City Pendolino sprinter. This does not stop between Prague and Ostrava, then the train stops in Bohumín, Karviná, Český Těšín and at the terminus Třinec in the east of the country.
In 2012 timetable runs on Saturdays as a garnish SC502/511 of Bohumin after Franzensbad and back.
Of the absence of high-speed lines the trains that are approved for 230 km / h in the Czech Republic at present only with a top speed of 160 km / h On the section of Olomouc - Ostrava- Svinov hl.n. it reaches 132 km / h, highest average speed of a train plan in the Czech Republic.
The railway companies indicates the utilization of trains with 70 percent, over the weekend even close to 100 percent. Since these trains are the only independent commercial traffic of ČD, the Company incurred losses must be completely self-sustaining. These amount to about 500 million CZK (approx. € 18 million) per year.
Movie theater
The ČD 680 series has already appeared several times in movies in appearance:
- In various movies starring linesiding ČD series are to see 680, for example in Hostel 2
- In the James Bond film Casino Royale Bond and Vesper Lynd meet aboard a train ČD - 680 series to each other for the first time. Besides outdoor shots also a longer dialogue inside can be seen. However, it is suggested in the film that the train in Montenegro is on the way.
- A very spectacular and long sequence of scenes from boarding at the station about the ride in indoor and outdoor scenes to a clearly detailed breakup of the train after he falls from a bridge, can be seen in the movie Wanted.