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# Success for Siemens in Switzerland
Swiss Railways orders 35 storied motorcars
Swiss Railways (SBB) has ordered from Siemens
Transportation Systems 35 storied motorcars for the urban trains from Zurich.
The value of the contract is of almost 320 million Euro, the delivery of the
motorcars starting in 2005 and being unfolded up to 2008.
The vehicles are formed of 4 units, with a central continuous corridor, having
a length of 100 m and a width of 2.78 m and offering 396 seats and 600 places
standing. The motorcar reach the maximal speed of 140 km/h, are ventilated,
being also endowed with special toilets for the persons with handicap. The
information system of the passengers is complex, enhancing the orientation.
Success in Hungary
The consortium formed by Syemens Transportation Systems and Kiepe Elektrik
delivers 40 Combino trams with low floor to the Transport Company from
Budapest
Siemens Transportation Systems (TS) and its
consortium partner, Kiepe Elektrik, have received from the Transport Company
BKV RT. Budapest a contract for the delivery of 40 Combino trams with low
floor. The contract has been signed on April 
23, 2003, in Budapest. The value
of the contract is of 159 million Euro. The Combino trams that are to be
delivered in the Hungarian capital are the first that have been designed as
vehicles with nine units.
Having a length of 53 meters and a width of 2.4 meters, the Combino trams
offer the space for 351 passengers (72 seats) which are going to operate on
the big boulevards of Budapest, where there are transported almost 200,000
passengers daily.
Siemens is responsible for the mechanic and hauling part (engine, gearing, and
coupling), Kiepe Elektrik being in charge with the electric side.
Siemens TS obtains the contract for the
maintenance works for the motorcars from Sao Paulo
Siemens Transportation Systems (TS) has been assigned by the Company Trens
Metropolitanos (CPTM) from Sao Paulo, Brazil, to take over the maintenance
works for ten electric motorcars. Siemens TS will supply CPTM from Sao Paulo,
a company of the government and the public administrator of the trains in the
short route transports from Sao Paulo, with the materials and services for the
maintenance of the trains. The value of the contract has a value of 9.5
million Euro and the unfolding duration of 5 years.
In double hauling there can be concomitantly transported 2,324 persons. During
the week days the Siemens trains are use by almost 50,000 passengers, during
the peak hours even reaching at 14,000 passengers per hour and on one
direction. The CPTM network is formed of 270 km of track, 92 railway stations,
in 22 districts and transports over a million passengers daily.
Siemens takes over at Railion Denmark the
maintenance of the EG 3100 locomotives
Siemens Transportation Systems (TS) has taken
over since January 2003, the complete maintenance of the 13 locomotives of EG
31000 from Railion Denmark. A particularity of the contract is the
"Mobile Service", which makes possible small repairs also outside
the borders of Denmark for the locomotives used in the international freight
traffic.
"Mobile Service" for EG 3100, a multi-system locomotive with six
axles from Siemens is part of the EuroSprinter family of the second
generation, covers the freight transport of Railion Denmark from Denmark, as
well as from Denmark to Sweden, and to Germany. For Railion Denmark this
service, offered by Siemens TS together with various partners, offers a
greater flexibility and the availability of the fleet.
The contract with Railion Denmark, having a value of 7.5 million Euro, has
been signed on September 2002, in Berlin. Railion Denmark is a national Danish
company of the Railion Consortium, which, together with DB Cargo and Railion
Benelux, represent the biggest tenderer for freight transport on railways.
Exactly at a year after the signing of the
contract of 2.5 million Euro, in Great Britain, Stagecoach Angel Trains and
Siemens present the first Desiro UK for South West Trains
The administration of the British railways
Stagecoach Group, the Leasing Company Angel Trains and Siemens Transportation
Systems (TS) have presented to the public - in the Siemens testing center for
vehicles on tracks Wegberg - Wildernrath - the first Desiro for England. The
vehicles are stipulated to be implemented in the South West Trains network, in
the southern part of London. TS will deliver to the Great Britain 1200 wagons
of the modular Desiro design. Having a total volume of the investment of
almost 2.5 billion Euro, we refer to the biggest contract up to the present
time from the history of TS.
