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Solaris "Tramino" Skoda "ForCity" Pesa "Swing" Stadler "VarioBahn"

Our September visit to the InnoTrans trade fair in Berlin was an informative and rather intensive experience. According to their press release there were 2,242 exhibitors and 106,612 attendees from more than 110 countries. There were 121 rail vehicles of all kinds on display on the outdoor tracks, including four 100 percent low-floor trams from Stadler, Pesa, Solaris and Skoda. Of note was the new Skoda car with pivoting bogies located near the ends of the vehicle, targeted at their primary market of Eastern European legacy systems and their constrained infrastructure. Not surprisingly there was also a buzz in the air about wireless capabilities, and virtually all of the carbuilders were showing something in this area. Some random highlights are provided in the pictures and captions below, only a tiny fraction of the thousands of products on display of course, but something to give you a flavor of what was there.



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Pesa
"Swing"
Interior
views of the Pesa "Swing"
       
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Solaris
"Tramino"
Interior
of the Tramino
Tramino
side view
       
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Interior
views of the Stadler VarioBahn tram, destined for Norway’s
Bergen system
       
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Skoda
ForCity
Wheelchair
lift on the ForCity
Interior
views of the Skoda ForCity
       
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Alpha-Union
track brakes. They were also showing their wide range of
operator’s controllers.

FBO
showed this sander apparatus that they provide to several
carbuilders.

Several
suppliers were showing new computer-aided wheel measurement
devices. This example is from NextSense

       
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This
interesting service truck from Zweiweg is designed to clean the
track groove on tram systems

Several
suppliers exhibited complete trucks including this one from
HeiterBlick, produced for their line of trams such as the
CityRunner and Vamos.

Nencki
brought in one of their very elaborate bogie test stands

Hubner
provided this interesting "glass bottom" view of a
streetcar articulation joint
       
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Power
car from a Siemens
high-speed trainset
Bombardier
Zefiro
Tilting
technology being demonstrated
In
decided contrast to the high-speed rail equipment, this replica
of the Adler was also on display
       
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AnsaldoBreda
showed a section of their TramWave power system

The
permanent magnet pickup on the vehicle raises up the segmented
bus bar as the vehicle passes, energizing sections of the center
contact rail

In
this end view you can see the segmented bus bar

One of
the track suppliers previewed this short section of Bombardier’s
inductive power system.

       
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Edilon
Sedra showed samples of the various components of their embedded
rail systems, including a product incorporating conduits

Several
companies showed "filler block" systems designed to
speed track installation. This system from Regum is optimized
for grass track.

Czech
supplier DT showed this tramway frog designed with an interchangeable
wear insert.