International Railway Journal - January 2008 - (Page 29) upgradeable, and has an open structure to allow all suppliers to bid for future train control contracts as the network expands. “The full benefits of our technology will be realised as SelTrac MS CBTC functionality is applied on a systemwide basis and with completion of fleet deployment from different rolling stock suppliers,” says Mr Jean-Pierre Forestier, vice-president and managing director of Thales Rail Signalling Solutions. Shanghai is also acquiring the latest designs of metro train. Bombardier and Changchun Bombardier Railway Vehicles are supplying 51 six-cars trains for Line 9 and a further 32 six-car trains for Line 7 at a total cost of $US 530 million. Delivery of the trains will start in the second quarter of this year and continue until 2009. Line 7 is expected to open next year in readiness for World Expo 2010. The new trains are based on Bombardier’s Movia platform and are suitable for operation on all Chinese socalled A-type metro lines. The cars have fully-welded aluminium bodies, and five sets of 1.4m-wide pocket sliding doors per side. The cars are 3m wide and have wide inter-car gangways. The driving trailers have a length of 24.39m while the intermediate motored cars are 22.8m long. The trains will be equipped with Bombardier’s Mitrac propulsion and Shanghai Lines open Under construction Planned Jiangyang Road Gangcheng Road Gongfu Xincun Waigaoqiao FTZ Shiguang Road Line 3 to Jiading and Anting Jinglu Road Line 1 Lin e1 0 N e1 1 Hongkou Stadium Line 8 Line 12 Zhenping Road s ine 4 L/ Caoyang Road 3 Line 13 Hanzhong Shanghai Station Road Line 4 Jing’an Temple e Lin Yanggao Road Shiji Avenue Line 9 Fangdian Road Longyang Road 2 e Songhong Road Lin SH Stadium Line 12 Line Chengshan Road 11 Gaoke Road e6 Lin Jiyang Road Shanghai South e1 Songjiang New City Lin Xinzhuang Minhang Line 5 Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park to Pujiang T own Sanlin Lin Line 4 Nanpu Bridge IRJ Shanghai expects to complete its 13-line network totalling around 500km by 2012. complete the first of 12 eight-car Metropolis trains for the expansion of Line 2. The ƒ100 million contract was awarded in 2006. Alstom and its Chinese partner Puzhen won a ƒ210 million order last August to build a fleet of 41 six-car Metropolis trains for the new Line 10. Alstom’s involvement in Line 10 deepened in November last year when it and Casco Signal, China, were awarded a ƒ43 million contract to install Alstom’s Urbalis fullyautomatic CBTC system. Delivery of both the trains and the train control system is scheduled for the end of 2010. If all goes according to plan, Shanghai will have a very impressive metro by 2012 both in terms of size and the technology deployed. But even with such a huge network, the city still has plans for further expansion beyond 2012. Its number one position looks secure for many years to come. IRJ Alstom has supplied medium-capacity trains for Shanghai’s Line 5, serving southwestern suburbs. train control management systems. The former consists of four IGBT converters, with one inverter for traction motors in parallel, with variable voltage, variable frequency (VVVF) technique and microprocessor-based logic control. A consortium led by Alstom is due to IRJ January 2008 29 to Pudong Airport to Qingpu Zhongshan Park to Hongqiao Line 10 Airport and LineYishan Road 9 Hanghua Gulin Road Xinan Changshu Road People’s Square e7 Lin e4 Lancun Road Line 6 Lin Line 7 2
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