Deustche bahn chose Siemens/Alstom consortium to install
ETCS control system on freight locomotives

From 2007, the ETCS equipment will allow a border-crossing
traffic on the so-called Betuwe route between the Dutch port of
Rotterdam and the industrial region of North Rhine-Westphalia
without a time-consuming loco exchange. This project, which is
part of the planned European freight traffic corridor from
Rotterdam to Genoa, aims to simplify the crossing of borders,
shorten the traveling times and increase the operating
efficiency on the lines.



Around 110 kilometers of the 160-km-long Betuwe route are
already equipped with the ETCS by ALSTOM Transport, besides the
high-speed lines equipped by Siemens, Vienna Budapest
(Austria/Hungary), Madrid Barcelona (Spain) and HSL
Zuid (Netherlands), as well as the lines equipped by ALSTOM
Transport, Mattstetten Rothrist (Switzerland) and Rome
Naples (Italy).



The share of the consortial leader Siemens comprises the
equipment of the locomotives, which will be carried out by the
TS works in Munich-Allach. Siemens will also be responsible for
the engineering and the approval for 1.5 kV dc voltage as
common in the Dutch traction power supply and for the 25 kV ac
voltage as installed on the Betuwe route. The BR 189
locomotives to be equipped belong to the 100 multi-system
locomotives of type ES64F4 delivered by Siemens TS to the DB AG
between 2002 and 2005.



ALSTOM Transports scope of supply comprises the delivery
of the ETCS and ATB control systems as well as the technical
approval of the control equipment in the Netherlands. The ETCS
equipment Level 2 will be produced at ALSTOM Transports
works in Charleroi, Belgium.



In October Siemens and the Deutsche Bahn already started
measurement runs for the approval of the locos in the
Netherlands under 1.5 kV dc voltage. Tests with one prototype
on the Betuwe route will start from May 2007. The approval of
all 26 locomotives is expected until the end of 2007.



Editor: Consortium BR 189 ETCS Siemens-ALSTOM




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