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>the technology found its way to Italy Is this also related to the problematic and eventually scrapped Dutch high-speed Fyra trains?
by cr1895 9y ago
>the technology found its way to Italy
Is this also related to the problematic and eventually scrapped Dutch high-speed Fyra trains?
- martinald 9y agoNo, totally different train afiak. I don't think the Fyra trains will tilt (no need as they run on new lines designed for high speed operation).
- gsnedders 9y agoIt went to Fiat Ferroviaria (now part of Alstom), not AnsaldoBreda (now part of Hitachi Rail) who built the Fyra.
- lmm 9y agoThey have a common heritage. The APT design was developed into the FS ETR 400 which was a collaboration between Fiat Ferroviaria (who have gone on to produce the Pendolino, the train I was talking about, and are now part of Alstom) and Ansaldo (who, as AnsaldoBreda, produced Fyra; now part of Hitachi).
- gsnedders 9y agoNote the ETR 450 uses hydraulic actuators, as do the later Pendolino models, whereas the APT used electromagnetic actuators. (I'm unaware of any ETR 400 having ever existed; the prototype ETR 401 did, but that used passive tilt rather than the active tilt developed by BREL.) SIG, then owned by Fiat Ferroviaria, built the electromagnetic actuators used by the Swiss ICN and the British Class 390 "Pendolino".