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Issue 3 2005
Issue 3 2005 / 23 August 2005 /
Siemens Transportation Systems (STS), formerly Simmering Graz Pauker (SGP), has almost 150 years experience in the railway business. The product range covered the development and manufacture of locomotives, freight and passenger cars – mainly for the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB). In the 1990’s SGP started the development of a high speed bogie for the second and third generation of German high speed train ICE, followed by the development of a high speed tilting bogie.
Since 1996, Siemens Transportation Systems has concentrated all bogie-related activities in its world centre of expertise in Graz. Consequently, all bogies for Siemens Transportation Systems are designed and manufactured in Graz. Due to its annual output of approximately 3,000 bogies, the Graz plant is now one of the largest bogie facilities in the world.
Tagged with: Andreas Kienberger, Bogies, Johann Kothgasser, Johannes Hirtenlechner, Siemens Transportation Systems, United Kingdom
Issue 3 2005 / 23 August 2005 /
The eyes of the railway world are on France as it builds the latest addition to its successful high speed network – the TGV Est line that will link Paris with eastern France and beyond. The €3 billion first phase of the programme, which commenced in spring 2002, is placing heavy demands on civil engineers and railway infrastructure suppliers working to tight schedules to ensure the network opens in 2007.
The entire rail for the project is being supplied by Corus. In this article, three of the company’s senior executives explain how Corus is meeting the technical and logistic challenges posed by TGV Est.
During the summer of 2005, rail production for the high profile TGV Est project in France is reaching its peak. In the month of June alone, the Corus rail mill at Hayange in the Fensch Valley rolled 11,000 tonnes of rail for the first phase of the programme. By early next year, Corus will have supplied more than 86,000 tonnes of new rail to its customer, Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF).
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Tagged with: Corus, France, SNCF, Track maintenance & engineering
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