China Railways CRH5

The CRH5 is an electric high-speed train in China. CRH is the abbreviation for China Railway High -speed.

The CRH5 is a multiple unit Pendolino family of the Alstom group, but, in contrast to other Pendolini versions, does not have a tilting technology.

The built in Italian Savigliano trains were brought to the port of Genoa and there shipped to China. Three of the 60 trains were both used in assembled form, 57 trains in separate parts, which were then assembled in China.

The trains connect on a 189 km long stretch cities Shijiazhuang and Taiyuan in Hebei and Shanxi, about 600 kilometers southwest of Beijing, together. They travel at a speed of 250 km / h The end of 2008 the work was completed at the track. For the electrification Alstom won a contract worth around 42 million euros.