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On the left first the class 605 Deutsche Bahn tilting unit is preparing to bord passengers at Zurich, Switzerland. Currently these 4 car units are used between Copenhagen, Denmark and Hamburg, Germany, running for the DSB (Danish Railways).
Picture by Ilkka Siissalo.
The Deutsche Bahn also created a DMU ICE solution for the smaller routes with tigh curves and no electricity. A test batch of 20 trains were ordered from a consortium of Siemens, Bombardier and Fiat (currently Alstom). The units entered service in 1999 - 2001 and had some teething problems. Actually the problems were so severe, that the units of class/Br 605 were withdrawn from service in 2003. These were returned to carry people again no sooner than in 2006 for the football championship to help with the congested traffic. Later 11 unit were leased to the Danish National Railways (DSB) for a route between the Danish capital Copenhagen and the city of Hamburg in northern Germany. DSB (Danish National Railways) has had a severe shortage of tilting diesel multiple units since the ICE4 are very late / have severe operational problems.
Technical details for the ICE-T
-> Builders: Siemens Mobility, Bombardier Transportation,
FIAT Ferroviaria, 1998 - 2001
-> Operator: Deutsche Bahn AG, DSB (Danish State Railways)
-> Units built: 20
-> Units in use: 19
-> Passenger seats:
- 1st class:
- 2nd class:
- restaurant:
-> Maximum design speed: 200 km/h (124 mph)
-> Power: 1700 kW (2311 Hp), 160 kN
-> Unit numbers: 605 001 - 020
-> Power source: Turbocharged diesel engine
-> Electrical systems: Asynchronous?
-> Tilting system by Fiat Ferroviaria (now Alstom), hydraulic
-> Unit length: 106,7 m
-> Height: m
-> Width m
-> Operations weight: 219 tons
-> Maximum axle weight: 15,5 tons
-> Power ratio: 10,3 kW/t
-> Windfactor:
-> Formations: 2'Bo+Bo'2+2'Bo+Bo'2
-> Train controls systems: Sifa, PZB 90, LZB 80/16
ZUB262/121, Integra-Signum
-> Couplers: Scharfenberg, including the connection within the train
Easy recognition guide for ICE-TD
-> Remarkably ICE3 looking design, but the easy way to make the difference is to look at the front, where the ICE-T has wedged side end windows.
-> The only ICE3 like design, where the pantograph is missing
-> diesel sound
-> length is 4 cars, where the ICE-T has 5 or 7 cars
-> the bogies show the tilting mechanism in the middle |
