UKRAINE | Railways

[lazany]

[lazany]

[lazany]

[Harisson]

Kharkiv



by Мохнатое Пельме

[wappoltava]

Report from the test speed electric "KVSZ"









http://www.kvsz.com/index.php?option...id=105&lang=en

[mishu88]

Hello! Can anyone help me to identify and gain some information about this electric quarry locomotive? Thank you!

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Source:
http://2leep.com/bar.php?url=http://...com/73440.html

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Source:
http://roman-davydoff.livejournal.com/63803.html

[Dakkus]

Originally Posted by mishu88

Hello! Can anyone help me to identify and gain some information about this electric quarry locomotive? Thank you!

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Source:
http://2leep.com/bar.php?url=http://...com/73440.html

or



Source:
http://roman-davydoff.livejournal.com/63803.html

Found out using your sources that the name of such machine in Russian is ”Tyagoviy agregat”. This wikipedia article tells the following: It is not п32м but пэ2м, built in year 1967, 5460 kW, 694 kN, 29,8 km/h, 65 km/h.
Note the small letter M above the minus after the пэ2.

You can buy such locomotives from Chelyabinskiy Elektrovozoremontnyi Zavod if you have the cash

[SkyGurt]

Originally Posted by wappoltava

Report from the test speed electric "KVSZ"

Actually, this one is a high speed, 220 km/h
http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/s...t-on-test.html




cool

[nigel20]

Very nice thread!

[SkyGurt]

The government has announced that it will not by Hyundai trains 160km/h anymore, but will buy Ukrainian KSVZ trains which have passed testing phase successfully and have more advanced features and capable to run 220 km/h.

Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNUTT...utu.be&t=1m11s

Which is amazing and just proves that Ukraine has the best engineers on earth who were capable to build high speed train from scratch in so short period of time.

[Sopomon]

Whatever floats your boat, buddy

[SkyGurt]

Originally Posted by Sopomon

Whatever floats your boat, buddy

at least check this out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya

and try to find bigger in this world.

and other project related to rockets constructions, etc.

and some guys opened very famous Aircraft companies in US
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Sikorsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Aircraft

[MarcVD]

Originally Posted by SkyGurt

...just proves that Ukraine has the best engineers on earth...

Building a train for 220 km/h isn't specially rocket science... some people
were already doing that 50 years ago. For when is planned the opening of
the first ukrainian line which will see trains cruising at 220 km/h in
commercial service ?

[SkyGurt]

Originally Posted by MarcVD

Building a train for 220 km/h isn't specially rocket science... some people
were already doing that 50 years ago. For when is planned the opening of
the first ukrainian line which will see trains cruising at 220 km/h in
commercial service ?

I didn't tell that it is a rocket science.
I said that they have managed to complete it in a very short period of time with the world class quality.
As regarding 220km/h, I don't know exact dates, but they are updating the infrastructure at the moment.

[PJeka]

Excavation of the new Beskidzka tunnel (near 2 km long) is due to start shortly
at the Carpathian Dividing Range, which will be 122 meters longer than existing
old Beskidska tunnel. Construction of the new tunnel solves transport problem
on the Italy-Slovenia-Hungary-Slovakia-Ukraine-Russia corridor
http://gazeta.ua/articles/life/_na-l...j-tunel/460576
http://www.unn.com.ua/en/news/961250...nnel-beskidzka

[XAN_]

Originally Posted by PJeka

Excavation of the new Beskidzka tunnel (near 2 km long) is due to start shortly
at the Carpathian Dividing Range, which will be 122 meters longer than existing
old Beskidska tunnel. Construction of the new tunnel solves transport problem
on the Italy-Slovenia-Hungary-Slovakia-Ukraine-Russia corridor
http://gazeta.ua/articles/life/_na-l...j-tunel/460576
http://www.unn.com.ua/en/news/961250...nnel-beskidzka

The main reasoning - new tunnel will be 2 track and will have superior hydro-isolation, while old one have only 1 track and have issues with water flow and freezing

[XAN_]

Originally Posted by MarcVD

Building a train for 220 km/h isn't specially rocket science... some people
were already doing that 50 years ago. For when is planned the opening of
the first ukrainian line which will see trains cruising at 220 km/h in
commercial service ?

Sadly, it's currently no real plans to go beyond 180.

[Woonsocket54]

http://www.ostro.org/donetsk/economics/news/408112/



















http://ura.dn.ua/19.10.2012/131009.html

[Gadiri]

Prototype 220 km/h trainset on test

24 June 2012

UKRAINE: Testing is underway with the first of two prototype 220 km/h inter-regional electric multiple-units being built by Kriukov Car Building Works for national railway UZ.

The nine-car units are rated at 4 MW, and equipped for operation on lines electrified at 3 kV DC and 25 kV 50 Hz.

The two driving cars have 20 second class seats and all axles powered. There are two first class trailers cars with 64 seats, three second class cars with 94 seats, a third class car with 112 seats and a 47-seat dining car. Onboard facilities include air-conditioning, CCTV and two wheelchair spaces. The stainless steel car bodies are 3420 mm wide, and the axle load is 18 tonnes.

The first unit is based at Kharkiv depot for testing. UZ intends to operate the units at up to 200 km/h on the Kharkiv - Kyiv route.

http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/s...t-on-test.html


18 tons pear axle. Just a little fat for european network (maximum 17 tons).

[thainoodles]

I wonder how safe it will be, because lets be honest it's not a problem to buy a train capable of reaching speeds over 200km/h but condition of the tracks and whole infrastucture surrounding them may be not good enough. It might be better to improve the quality of rail infrastructure in Ukraine first, because i have a feeling that this whole deal with HSR is just to show those damned westerners that they can do this too.