International Railway Journal - January 2008 - (Page 25) picks up speed will have full-height platform screen doors.” Kawasaki, Japan, is currently supplying 321 cars both to expand capacity on the existing network and for some of the new lines being built under Stage 2. Delivery of these trains should be completed next year. The stainless steel cars have four sliding doors on each side and are mounted on Kawasaki’s bolsterless bogies designed for speeds up to 80km/h. Traction equipment includes the latest IGBT inverter control. Dorts also has 23 six-car trains on order from Kawasaki for the Xinyi and Shongsha lines, while Alstom and CTCI, Taiwan, will install the signalling and power supply. Airport Express Construction is underway of a rail link between Taipei, Taoyuan International Airport, which serves Taipei, Taoyuan THSRC station, and Jhongli. It will provide a 10-minuteinterval limited-stop express service between Taipei Main Station and the airport, and a 10-minute-interval stopping service. Airline check-in and baggage-handling facilities will be provided at two stations in Taipei and One of the new Bombardier light metro trains for the Muzha Line. there is no problem financing Stage 2. Stage 3 will cost an additional $NT 430 billion. Taipei currently has a mixture of interconnected conventional heavy metro lines and a fully-automated light metro line known as the Muzha Line. The latter was originally equipped by Matra, France (now part of Siemens), but Bombardier won a contract to update the original train control system and the fleet of 51 trains, as well as supply 101 new cars for an extension of the line to Neihu and Taipei Nangang Exhibition Centre. “The new Circular Line will also be fully automated with driverless trains, but we want a new design of train for this line,” says Kao. Dorts will go out to tender shortly for a system contract for the Circular Line. “For the new heavy metro lines, we will use the same signalling system as we have now because we want to maintain compatibility with the existing heavy rail network,” says Kao. “However, under Stage 2 all stations IRJ January 2008 25 http://www.sgtechnologies.com http://www.sgtechnologies.com
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