According to the AGE Twenty-five new Ballarat-built trains will be running on Melbourne’s suburban network within five years under a deal with French rolling stock manufacturer Alstom worth $986 million.
Two days before the state budget, acting Premier James Merlino and Public Transport Minister Ben Carroll unveiled plans on Tuesday to start building the factory next year and have them running on the network by 2026.
The six-car trains, which will start to replace the ageing Comeng Fleet, are required to be built with a minimum 60 per cent of local content. The trains will be designed to carry 1200 people, well beyond the Comeng capacity of about 760.
The trains will run everywhere on the network except for the new Metro Tunnel. New high-capacity metro trains being constructed as part of a delayed $2.3 Billion program are set to operate through the tunnel by the time it opens in late 2025. “We are currently the only state that actually builds trains, builds trams and builds buses. Often our factories are supplying other public transport modes to other states,” Mr Carroll said.
Mr Carroll said the new trains would be lighter and more energy efficient and the doors will be wider in a bid to reduce wait times at stations, while carriages will be roomier and more accessible for people with wheelchairs and prams. He said the contract would deliver a major boost to regional manufacturing.
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FRÄNKISCHE Industrial Pipes is one of five business units of FRÄNKISCHE Rohr Werke. Basic inventions such as the flexible electrical installation pipe made of metal and its advancement made of plastic are the basis for the present range of products. In the field of industrial applications, the main focus is protecting cables from external influences in harsh working conditions. Additionally, they offer medium-conducting conduit systems for transporting air, water or other liquids.
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Rail Earthing Products for the Australian Market
An earth electrode system, professionally designed by competent Engineers, is essential to ensure the safety of personnel and the protection of equipment from dangerous voltages in and around substations.
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Earthing System Design Considerations
An earth electrode system should be designed to safely dissipate fault current or other unwanted electrical current to the general mass of earth. This could include power transmission and distribution, static dissipation, lightning protection as well as other associated systems.
The main considerations of an earth electrode system design should be:
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Structural Lightning Protection
Structural Lightning Protection systems are installed to minimise the risk of damage to the external & internal parts of the structure, including the electrical and electronic equipment from a lightning strike and reducing the risk of injury to humans by safely discharging the high voltage to the earth system. The external lightning protection attracts the lightning discharge and conducts it safely to earth and the internal lightning protection, with use of transient surge protectors, minimises the damage to sensitive equipment and bonding of conductive services ensureA3 a safe path to earth.
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ATUM HEATSHRINK TUBING
ATUM tubing is radiation-crosslinked, heat-shrinkable, and adhesive-lined to provide environmental sealing in a wide variety of electrical applications.
The product is typically used to seal connector backshells and cable breakouts and to repair damaged cable. ATUM has an internal adhesive coating that, when heated, melts and flows to form a positive environmental seal. The coating adheres to the outer tubing and the surface below, creating an excellent barrier to moisture penetration.
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ATUM-6/2-0-STK 1.2m – 3:1 Shrink Ratio
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ATUM-19/6-0-STK 1.2m – 3:1 Shrink Ratio
