Talgo presents its innovations in sustainable mobility to connect Europe at InnoTrans 2024
Visitors will board Talgo 230, the intercity train the company manufactures for the Danish operator DSB. This is the first time in the history of the event that a full rail coach will be presented inside the building where the event takes place.
Talgo, the Spanish company leader in the design, manufacture and maintenance of high-speed, lightweight rail vehicles, will present its most innovative trains and railway solutions to decarbonise mobility at InnoTrans 2024. The railway industry’s biggest event will bring together the entire sector worldwide from tomorrow 24 September and until Friday 27 September in Berlin. In 2022, more than 2,700 exhibitors from 56 countries and 137,000 visitors from 137 countries attended InnoTrans.
Talgo will showcase in Hall 4.2 of Messe Berlin the latest advances in technology and its value proposition for an accessible, decarbonised and connected mobility throughout Europe. Visitors will be able to get on board the Talgo 230, the intercity train it manufactures for the Danish operator DSB; get to know the DB-Baureihe 105 locomotive, developed for Deutsche Bahn as part of the ICE L project; and explore the modular proposal for high-speed lines in Europe on the Talgo Avril platform.
Talgo 230
Talgo is supplying 16 Talgo 230 Intercity trains for DSB, set to become part of its fleet of vehicles for Intercity services. These trains will connect Copenhagen and the city of Aarhus in Denmark with Hamburg (Germany) and potentially other routes, both international and domestic.
For the first time in the history of InnoTrans, Talgo is presenting one of these coaches inside the building where the event is taking place. This is a milestone as, taking into account the configuration of the building where the event is being held, it is equivalent to raising the vehicle up to a fourth floor: something that only the Spanish manufacturer is able to do due to the greater lightness of its trains.
With a maximum commercial design speed of 230 km/h, and an operating speed of 200 km/h, the trains manufactured in Spain for Denmark will have a greater width than those used as standard in cross-border traffic, allowing for more interior space and greater comfort for passengers, while maintaining full technical interoperability at all times, to provide service on both domestic and international routes.
As part of the Talgo 230 platform, DSB trains also have the capacity to cut energy consumption by up to 30% compared to the industry standard thanks to the Spanish company’s unique rolling technology and the reduced weight of its passenger coaches and will also allow for 95% recoverability of the train structure.
DB-Baureihe 105 Locomotive (ICE L)
Talgo is also featuring a new ICE L vehicle, from a contract of 79 Intercity low-floor trains which are also part of the Talgo 230 range, and which are being supplied to the German operator Deutsche Bahn within a framework contract of 100 units.
Named ICE L by Deutsche Bahn (L standing for ‘low-floor’), and equipped with interoperable systems that will enable them to cross Germany’s borders with several neighbouring countries, these trains are lighter than the industry standard and will also feature a powerful locomotive developed and manufactured entirely by Talgo which will enter Deutsche Bahn’s fleet under the series name‘Baureihe 105’.
This locomotive is being presented to the public for the first time at the InnoTrans open-air exhibition (track 2): a feature that makes this fair unique, and which allows professionals and future travellers to get to know the characteristics of this Talgo locomotive first hand.
InnoTrans visitors will also be able to learn about the high modularity offered by the Avril very high-speed platform through a virtual reality app, in which all the possibilities it offers to private and public operators across the European rail network are presented.
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