HITACHI : Railway-vehicle Technologies for European Railways

	Volume 57 Number 1 March 2008
	Industrial Systems

AUTHORS

Takeshi Kawasaki, Dr. Eng.	Rolling Stock Systems Design Dept., Kasado Transportation Systems Product Div., Industrial Systems, Hitachi, Ltd.
Takashi Yamaguchi, Dr. Eng.	3rd Dept., Mechanical Engineering Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
Toshihiko Mochida	CTRL Project, Kasado Transportation Systems Product Div., Industrial Systems, Hitachi, Ltd.

OVERVIEW

At Hitachi, Ltd. a bulk order was received for 174 railway cars to run from 2009 on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link connecting London and the Straits of Dover in the UK. In August 2007, the first prototype train (consisting of six cars) arrived in the UK, and it is due to continue undergoing operational tests in the months ahead. To adapt technologies acquired in Japan to European train systems, it is important to satisfy local standards as well as the demands of customers. In this report, on the one hand, standards that presented a challenge to meet while developing this train are introduced in comparison to Japanese standards; while on the other hand, as examples of application of these technologies to European standards, our efforts regarding assurance of safety during collisions are presented.

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RELEVANT SITES

	Hitachi-Rail.com
	The Hitachi Hyoron (Japanese Only)

KEYWORDS

railway, safety, crashworthiness, Aluminium

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