Siemens Desiro
The Siemens Desiro is one of Siemens Transportation Systems (now Rail Systems ) designed rail vehicle family for the regional, local and commuter train traffic. The word art Desiro is of English to desire ( desire, desire ) is derived. Desiro is a registered trademark of Siemens AG.
The modular railcar concept stands for variable train configurations with diesel or electric drive in single or multiple. The production takes place predominantly in Uerdingen; commissioning and customer acceptance in Wegberg -Wildenrath. The first scheduled operation in 1999 she took the Desiro Classic as the class 642 at Deutsche Bahn. More Desiro variants operate in several European countries and in California.
Desiro Classic
The Desiro Classic is the original variant of the Desiro, which is produced and developed since 1998. It is offered both as a diesel train as well as an electric train set.
Desiro UK
This variant of the Desiro has been developed specifically for use in the UK.
On 24 April 2001, the contract for the supply of 1200 Desiro UK car for the United Kingdom was signed. With a volume of 2.5 billion euros, these were to the largest order to date in the history of Siemens Transportation Systems. The first train (Series 450 ), a year later, presented on 24 April 2002 at Wegberg -Wildenrath. Successor of the Desiro UK will be the Desiro City.
Based on the British Class 360/2 Desiro UK for two versions of the Suvarnabhumi Airport Rail link from the State Railway of Thailand ( SRT) were manufactured in Bangkok.
Desiro City
As the successor of the Siemens Desiro UK has introduced the series Desiro City on 23 July 2009. For the southern English Thameslink network a first contract for 1140 car in June 2013 was signed.
Desiro ML
The Desiro Mainline is the most current Desiro variant and intended for long distances on main routes.
Desiro Double Deck
The first model to the variant Desiro Double Deck the Meridian test vehicle called the DB Class 445 was produced. The vehicle finally got the EBA approval, but was not yet put into service and not built in series; it has since been dismantled. In the years 2006 - 2008 then a four-part double -decker EMU for the Zurich S-Bahn went into production with the RABe 514.