China Railways CRH3

The CRH3 later than CRH3A, called CRH3C since December 2010, is an electric high-speed train in China. The trains were developed by Siemens Velaro CN ( CN for China) as the second series based on the Velaro platform. While the first three trainsets were manufactured at the Siemens plant in Krefeld- Uerdingen in Germany, the other units in China have been built using Siemens components.

Compared to the rest of the Velaro trains are distinguished from the trains broadened car bodies and technical adjustments to high speed rail in the People's Republic of China. They are currently (as of December 2009) used on the high-speed lines Beijing -Tianjin and Beijing - Hong Kong. On both relations he runs together with the high-speed trains of the type CRH2. In brief, the trains will be used on routes Zhengzhou - Xi'an and Beijing -Shanghai.

Naming

The abbreviation stands for CRH3 China Railway High -speed. The number "3 " refers to the fourth series of Chinese high-speed trains - while series from Bombardier and Kawasaki ( Shinkansen ) are denoted by CRH1 and CRH2, the Velaro bears because of the parallels with the ICE 3, the numeral " 3". The number " 4" was omitted as an unlucky number, pronounced it sounds very similar to the Chinese word for death. The CRH5 is a native of the Alstom Pendolino train set based on the. Later, the name was supplemented with letters to tell them apart from similar trains can.

Ordering and production

After several weeks of negotiations, the official signing of the contract on 60 eight-car Velaro high- speed trains was held on 20 November 2005 ( according to another source, on 10 November 2005 ) held in Beijing. Customer is the Chinese railways China Railways, acting on behalf of the Ministry of Railways (MOR ). The design and planning was carried out by Siemens Mobility in Erlangen and Krefeld. In June 2006, the Chinese customers was a model in 1:1 scale, a so-called mock-up presented. The first three trains were completely produced in Krefeld -Uerdingen. The production of the remaining 57 units are up to 2010 when Chinese partner Tangshan Locomotive & Rolling Stock Works, a factory of China Northern Locomotive & Rolling Stock Industry (Group ) Corporation (CNR ) on site. The contract value of the Siemens share amounts to around 669 million euros.

CRH380BL

On 16 March 2009, the Chinese State Railways ordered Co. Ltd. at the company Tangshan Railway Vehicles. (TC ), Changchun Railway Vehicles Co. Ltd.. (CRC ), 100 high-speed trains, which have been developed from these on the basis of CRH3 or Velaro CN. Four days later, an agreement was concluded between the company Tangshan Railway Vehicles Co. Ltd.. (TC ), Changchun Railway Vehicles Co. Ltd.. (CRC), the Chinese Academy of Railways (CARS) and Siemens signed that Siemens zuliefert essential components for this train. Electrical equipment and from Graz are supplied the bogies from Germany. This Siemens component amounts to a volume of around 750 million euros. 70 trains will be manufactured locally in Tangshan and 30 trains in Changchun.

100 ordered in March 2009 trains are provided for the 1318 km long route between Beijing and Shanghai. This distance should be tackled at an operating speed of up to 380 km / h from the vehicles in about four hours. The commissioning of the first trains were scheduled for late 2010. These trains will consist of 16 cars and are about twice as long as the 60 CRH3, where they offer around 1,060 seats with around 400 meters. In trains with a total capacity of 18.4 MW drive is installed. Commissioning began in mid- January 2011.

On January 9, 2011 at 17:15 clock presented a shortened to 12 cars CRH380BL to a new world record for standard trains, by reaching a speed of 487.3 km / h on the 156 km long section between Xuzhou and Bengbu.

CRH380B

Mid-November 2009 ordered the Chinese railways another 140 eight-car Velaro CN trains. The products manufactured by the CNR Changchun subsidiaries and Tangshan trainsets in 2012 will be put into operation [ deprecated].

CRH3 350 LTT

In October 2010, the Ministry of Railways ( MoR ) ordered 40 eight -car trains with the name CRH3 LTT 350, LTT which stands for Low Temperature Train. This means that these eight divider to at least minus 40 degrees must be used reliably. The production started in the spring of 2011 in Changchun.

Commissioning

A first Endwagenrohbau for final assembly in Tangshan was shipped to China in July 2007 from the Port of Hamburg. Transported by road from Krefeld to Bremerhaven, did the first three complete cars of an eight -car train from German production on 18 December 2007, on the Danish cargo ship Maersk Gjertrud, their six-week voyage to Tianjin.

The commissioning of the first train from German production, who had arrived in January 2008 in the port city of Tianjin, in March and April of Siemens' Chinese partner Tangshan Locomotive & Rolling Stock Works. The second train of German production was early April, also arrived in Tjanjin. The first assembled in China CRH3 was set in April 2008. Since April 26, 2008 regular test drives on the high-speed Beijing- Tianjin were carried out in which you reached speeds of up to 374 km / h. By mid-June 2008, there were two trains from German and one was taken from Chinese production in operation.

On 24 June 2008, a Chinese-made CRH3 train with 394.3 km / h new speed record for rail vehicles in China. The train left the Beijing Railway Station at 8:55 clock and mastered the 115.3 km long route in a driving time of 25 minutes and 10 seconds. The record speed was almost 20 minutes later, the presence of the Chinese railway minister Liu Zhijun, situated. President Hu Jintao continued the following day in a CRH3 on route from the south of Beijing to Tianjin. To set this record with that of the Velaro E in relation, one must consider that only a few meters above sea level was driven with a higher air resistance of the heavier and wider CRH3.

On 1 August 2008, a week before the start of the Summer Olympics in Beijing, five CRH3 with a planned top speed of 300 km / h entered passenger service on the high-speed Beijing-Tianjin line, two trains which from German and three from Chinese production. Parallel to operate on this route six CRH2 trains from the Japanese Shinkansen series, so that since then can be moved to the beat. The CRH3 multiple units will continue to operate the first high-speed Beijing- Tianjin. The entire fleet of sixty CRH3 to have been handed over to the scheduled traffic according to the manufacturer in 2010.

In a test drive of the CRH3 on 9 December 2009, a record of 394.2 km / h was set up on the line from Wuhan to Guangzhou. Since 26 December 2009, the 1068 km long route from Wuhan ( Hubei) On Changsha (Hunan ) and Zhuzhou to Guangzhou (Guangdong ) is traveled commercially, where - as well as on the route between Beijing and Tianjin - as both trains of the type CRH2 CRH3 also be used. The journey time is thus reduced from the current 10.5 hours to three hours. The maiden voyage was performed with a CRH2 and an average speed of 341 km / h

Other routes are planned or already built.

Equipment

The total length of the trains is about 200 or 400 meters. The trainsets are designed to standard gauge, but towards the European variants, which have a carriage width of 2,950 mm to 315 mm wider to accommodate 601 passengers. In the 2nd class cars find five seats per row 529 passengers place where first - class intermediate car there at four seats per row 56 seats in the lounge compartments behind both driver stands eight first - class seats. In addition, a buffet car is available. As typical for the country, there are in each car an electric kettle. Other special features include lack of tread on the doors and the performance of air conditioning systems. The panoramic compartments at both ends of the train are reserved for passengers of the first class. It is a multilingual passenger information system with visual displays for indoor and outdoor installed.

The trains, which are also intended for transport in double traction are equipped for a supply voltage of 25 kV 50 Hz AC and can be a continuous output of 8,800 kW reach. In CRH3 not be used as a converter like ICE3 or Velaro E GTOs, but IGBTs. The command, based on the European ETCS system (Level 1), was modified to Chinese standards. Delay is mainly with regenerative braking that allow for energy recovery. The braking system is complemented by pneumatic friction brakes with disc brakes. When the parking brake in the state, there are certain cars spring brakes.

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