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OrganisationsFurrer+Frey AG
Furrer+Frey AG is one of the nationally and internationally leading and innovative medium-sized supplier of overhead contact line systems in public transport.
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Metro Report InternationalSiemens wins Lima metro electrification upgrade contract
PERU: Siemens announced on January 4 that it is to provide a power supply upgrade to the first section of Lima metro Line 1. The work will be carried out without interruption to services. Electrification equipment on the 9 km between Villa El Salvador and Atocongo dates from 1995. ...
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NewsSevern Tunnel electrification installation completed
UK: The 7 km Severn Tunnel reopened on October 22 following a six-week closure to install 25 kV 50 Hz electrification equipment. The project required a total of 18 000 person-days of work. Around 14 km of Furrer+Frey rigid overhead conductor rail was installed, supported by 1 648 drop ...
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NewsIndian delegation inspects Great Western electrification project
INDIA: As part of a visit to the UK, a delegation from India’s Ministry of Railways asked to see infrastructure manager Network Rail’s Electrification Training Centre in Swindon to investigate how the techniques being used on the Great Western Electrification Project could be implemented on railway and metro programmes in ...
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NewsFurrer+Frey to launch reduced-size overhead conductor bar
FURRER+FREY: Swiss electrification specialist Furrer+Frey will be launching a reduced size overhead conductor bar at InnoTrans 2016. Along with smaller supporting cantilevers, Mini-ROCS is intended to facilitate the electrification of very small or tight tunnels. The company’s Rigid Overhead Conductor-rail System has now been adopted for more than 300 projects ...
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NewsRigid overhead installed in UK tunnel
UK: Furrer+Frey’s Rigid Overhead Conductor Rail System has been installed in UK for the first time, to support the testing of Hitachi IEP trainsets through the 1·2 km Stanton tunnel which forms part of the Old Dalby test track. ROCS uses a rigid bar rather than tensioned overhead line, which ...
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NewsRigid catenary speed record
AUSTRIA: Installed by Furrer+Frey in partnership with HC-Electric, the rigid 15 kV AC overhead conductor rail fitted in the Sittenberg tunnel on the Wien – Linz route is the first in Europe to comply with the high speed infrastructure TSI for speeds of 250 km/h or higher. In contact force ...
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High speed overhead conductor
INTENSIVE testing of a pilot section of overhead conductor bar installed instead of a conventional contact wire was undertaken in Austria during February. Approval has now been received for ÖBB trains to run under the bar at speeds of up to 200 km/h, and 250 km/h trials are planned for ...
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25 kV on moving bridges
WITH AMTRAK’s Northeast Corridor electrification between New Haven and Boston due to come into service later this year, teams from Balfour Beatty Construction Inc and its joint venture partner Mass Electric Construction Co are currently finishing the installation of the 25 kV catenary. They faced a major challenge in wiring ...
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