3rd Issue November 2005

A Fresh Breeze

... in Dutch InterCity trains The Dutch national railways NS will have their entire ICM fleet thoroughly renovated by NedTrain in Haarlem in the next few years. The ICM is an electrical multiple unit (EMU) train used as InterCity train in the Netherlands.

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Battery Chargers for Chinese Subway Trains

Currently, China is experiencing an unprecedented economic boom. Huge metropoli, where the financial world is concentrated, are being created and the industrialization is progressing at a speed which no-one would have believed possible a few years ago. This is particularly true for the Pearl River Delta with the major cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen and for the Shanghai conurbation.

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Auxiliary Converter with Active Redundancy

Railway vehicles, especially those used for public transport, must be available a great deal of the time. Even if individual components fail, the vehicles must remain useable, at least until the end of the planned utilization time. Complete failures must be prevented, especially at peak times in rush-hour traffic.

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