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- From: TSOS@uni-duesseldorf.de (Detlef Lannert)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: ICE trains withdrawn in October?
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:03:52 GMT
- Organization: Universitaetsrechenzentrum, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet, Duesseldorf
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- Message-ID: <TSOS.174.721926232@uni-duesseldorf.de>
- References: <1992Nov13.100136.3776@sq.sq.com>
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- Summary: bang avoided
-
- In article <1992Nov13.100136.3776@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:
-
- >A few days ago I was in a pub here in Toronto, where the management
- >had posted in the men's washroom some pages from the *October 9* issue,
- >or thereabouts, of the (London, England) Daily Telegraph. In this
- >paper was a short article about a problem on the Deutsche Bundesbahn's
- >ICE trains. It seems that one of them had developed vibrations in
- >one of its drive motors so severe that the motor rotor came apart!
- >The article said that all 50-odd ICE train sets were withdrawn from
- >service.
- >
- >I don't recall hearing anything about this in rec.railroad. Are the
- >facts as I have recalled them from the article correct? Have the trains
- >been put back into service yet, and if so, at what speed? And, perhaps
- >most interesting of all... what were conditions like for DB inter-city
- >passengers in the period just after the withdrawal?
-
- It's correct that they had problems with the rotor parts of the traction
- motors. I don't know if any of them actually broke but cracks showed up
- when the motors were inspected.
-
- All motors had to be exchanged and the defective parts replaced. Luckily
- enough (for DB), this was still covered by the manufacturer's warranty,
- and Siemens had to pay for it (they indicated a cost of "not many" tens
- of millions DM).
-
- The exchange and repair was done on the fly: The motors were replaced
- during normal service periods, and there were enough spare trains so
- that the normal schedule could continue. DB passengers shouldn't have
- noticed anything (as long as they didn't read the papers ...).
- --
- Detlef Lannert DC3EK E-Mail: tsos@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
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