Shanghai City Rail Market Show Appreciation for CSR Again

Shanghai city rail market pays favored attention again to CSR. A few days ago, CSR Nanjing Puzhen Rolling Stock Works joined efforts with French Alstom Company and won the gold medals at one stroke in the public bidding of cars for Shanghai metro ling No. 2 east extension. Through the advantage of technology, price and delivery date, the company signed the procurement contract with Shanghai Shentong Metro Co., Ltd. which included 32 trains of 192 cars.

It is understood that CSR firstly entered Shanghai city rail market in 2000. In the past 8 years, the company has won the tender of 9 city rail procurement projects, nearly 1500 trains, which included Shanghai No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, and 11 lines, and it also delivered nearly 1000 trains according to the contract.

CSR has become one of the most trusted partners to Shanghai city rail subscribers. CSR Nanjing Puzhen Rolling Stock Works adopted unmanned technology to develop new vehicles for Shanghai No. 10 line; CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Works once joined efforts with Siemens Ltd. to manufacture the city rail train for Shanghai metro line No.

4 with the loading capacity of 1860 people, having one of the largest capacity in the world. This series of high-tech metro car products with particular traits, quickly satisfy the demand of Shanghai public traffic of large freight volume.

According to the introduction of the concerned people of Shanghai rail traffic command department, the east extension line of Shanghai rail traffic line No. 2 is placed in Shanghai Pudong New Area and has the span of 30.8 kilometers, being the important traffic main artery of Shanghai core city zones and eastern city zones.

The line is planned to finish construction and put into trial operation before World Expo Shanghai 2010. At that time, the fast direct access between Shanghai Hongqiao Airport and Pudong Airport will be formed. After the launch and operation of city rail vehicles in the successful bidder of CSR Nanjing Puzhen Rolling Stock Works, the one-way traffic time between two airports will be only one hour and 20 minutes.

For the reason that Shanghai No. 2 line east extension owns the characteristics of large passenger flow volume and high traffic intensity, CSR Nanjing Puzhen Rolling Stock Works designed and manufactured city rail vehicles for this line which highlights three traits: first is being economic and flexible, based on the changes of passenger flow volume, the flexible group organizing of No.

4, 6 and 8 parts of the train can be realized; second is being advanced and reliable, adopting more advanced network control system makes higher redundancy and stronger reliability of the train; third is being secure and convenient, some functions and equipments, such as security safeguard, luggage placing, liquid crystal display LCD and dynamic maps further enhance security and convenience.