The SBB modernize the car in the next five years, all 341 IC2000 double-Decker. The all-new double-Decker cars are fresh and are to roll for a further 20 years on the rails.
There are the work animals of the train: The 341 double-Decker cars for the past 20 years. The cars carry every day, around 180’000 travellers between Geneva, Bern, Zurich, St. Gallen and Lucerne. They offer 32’654 seats – all the inhabitants of a medium-sized city could go together on a trip.
“Today and in the future the cars are a backbone of long-distance traffic SBB,” said Toni haene, head of SBB’s passenger traffic, on the Thursday before the media in Olten, SO. The all-round renewal of the IC2000 fleet is the largest vehicle of modernization in the history of the Swiss long-distance traffic.
In the workshops in Olten SBB presented to those responsible for the first of two double-Decker cars in new splendor and Design. The interior design of the car is inviting a new LED lighting concept saves energy and provides indirect lighting for ambience.
special slices: Better cell phone reception
Also new seat upholstery and new carpets have been fitted. The sockets are integrated directly in the new storage tables. And mobile radio-translucent window panels to improve mobile phone reception. This new window panes were used for the first time and for the future generation mobile technology such as 5G ready, it was said. For more Details fall to the ground-on the go: thanks to the elimination of the former smoke partition wall in the upper deck of the adjacent seats to be widened. The tilting waste bins possess a larger version. According to the SBB meet the modernized double-deck cars with all the requirements of the disability equality act.
The cars the 1. Class be extended with an Office area, and with inductive charging areas for phones equipped. Redesigned cars in addition to the food, as well as with new tables and Seating. Finally, the WC get-cabins of the family changing tables car.
And new safety elements such as fire detection systems, and an Elevator to be installed make a guest talk in the car. The first modernized IC2000 train is to be used in the fall. After the renewal of this long-distance transport, roll fleet for another 20 years on the rails.
40 kilometres of carpet to be laid
The modernisation of the IC2000 double-piece trains is associated with a lot of work. Until the middle of 2024, the 120 SBB-specialist to build the car. In the work of Olten is at the same time to 14 cars. The modernization of the wagon lasts for eight weeks, every third working day to leave a vehicle completed the work. In total, according to SBB data, more than 32’cushioned 000 seats, 40 kilometres to the carpet is laid, and more than 120 tons of paint is applied. Per car cost of approximately one Million Swiss francs.
The cars are hollowed out to the core. More than ten tons of Material per car, which will be reclaimed or renewed. After the dismantling of the car will be refurbished box. This is first sand-blasted sand, then repaired and at the end, with a new paint system for the protection of the metallic structure. (fal/sda)
Created: 31.01.2019, 14:01 PM