Alstom Coradia
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The Coradia 1000 Adelante (seen here at Moreton-in-Marsh) is a type of British diesel multiple high-speed train built by Alstom. | |
| Manufacturer | Alstom |
| Formation | Coradia |
| Operator(s) | Hull Trains and others |
| Specifications | |
| Maximum speed | 160 km/h (99 mph) |
| Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge |
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The Alstom Coradia family range of Inter-city trains and regional trains includes multiple unit diesel (DMU) or electric (EMU) as well as double-decker trains that can carry up to 900 passengers. There are a number of variants of this series, used in several countries.
Operators
United Kingdom
Coradia 1000
The first British units entered service in 2001. The family is represented by two sub-families. The diesel-powered Coradia 1000 family consists of Class 175 (27 units), a unit currently operating in Wales, and Class 180 Adelante, (14 units), a 125 mph (201 km/h) high-speed train used by Grand Central, Great Western Railway and Hull Trains.
Coradia Juniper
The electric Coradia Juniper family now consists of the Class 334 (used for Glasgow commuter services, 40 units), the Class 458 (used on routes from London Waterloo to Reading, 30 units), but formerly included the Class 460 (originally used for Gatwick Express airport services, but fully incorporated into the 458 fleet by early 2016).
Mainland Europe
The Coradia LINT, originally designed by Linke-Hofmann-Busch (LHB), before their acquisition by Alstom, is a diesel-powered light train similar to the Siemens Desiro and Bombardier Talent. It is used by a number of railways in Germany (DB class 640 and 648), the Netherlands, and Denmark.
The Coradia Continental is sold to several operators in Germany. The first series to be introduced will be the BR 440 of Deutsche Bahn. The Coradia Duplex is a double-decker model, used for TER services in France (designated Class Z 26500), by Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois (designated CFL 2200), and in Sweden.
Sweden
The Coradia Nordic is used for Storstockholms Lokaltrafik (designated X60) for commuter services in the Stockholm area. Several more contracts are realised for other Swedish operators, principally Skånetrafiken in Skåne County. Both the Continental and Nordic varieties were originally marketed as ‘Coradia Lirex’.
A version of the Coradia Duplex, the SJ X40 is used by SJ AB for services in the Mälaren region of Sweden.
Finland
The VR Class Sm4[1] is used for local and regional traffic from Helsinki to Leppävaara, Vantaankoski, Tampere and Kouvola.
North America
The Coradia LINT, was introduced in service in North America in 2015 by OCTranspo's Capital Railway in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, where six units operate an LRT-like service as the O-train Trillium line.
Accidents and incidents
- On 12 July 2016, an Alstom Coradia was involved in a head-on collision at Andria, Apulia, Italy. At least 20 people were killed.[2]
- On 18 July 2016, a man attacked four people with an axe on board DB Class 440 unit 440 313-5 before being shot dead by police at Würzburg, Germany.[3]
Gallery
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References
- ↑ http://www.alstom.com/finland/fi/projektimme/transport/
- ↑ "Italy train crash: 'Twenty killed' near Bari". BBC News Online. 12 July 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
- ↑ "Germany axe attack: Assault on train in Wurzburg". BBC News Online. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
Sources
- A. Knitter (2000), "Alstom : Doppelstockzugkonzept CORADIA Duplex", Eisenbahningenieur (in German), 51 (9): 18–20, ISSN 0013-2810
- Coradia UK
- "Дизель-поезда семейства Coradia для междугородных сообщений", Железные дороги мира (5), 2001
- J. Abbott (1999), Modern Railways (612): 666–670
External links
- "Coradia regional trains". www.transport.alstom.com.
- "Coradia Polyvalent". www.transport.alstom.com. Archived from the original on October 18, 2010.
- "Coradia Regional Trains" (PDF). www.transport.alstom.com.