Siemens locomotives for Queensland Rail
Thu, 01/11/2007 - 14:55 — admin
Queensland Rail is one of Australia’s largest rail operators and will use the new locomotives as traction units for its coal transportation services. With a transport capacity of 157 million metric tonnes of coal per year, QR is the market leader in Australia. QR is planning to increase capacity to over 250 million metric tonnes by 2010. The new locomotives will play an essential role, because fewer locomotives than before will be needed for the coal trains due to the high traction power of 4000 kW and the tare weight of 132 metric tonnes.It was only in December of last year that Siemens received a € 150 million order from Queensland Rail to upgrade sixty Class 3100/3200 electric freight locomotives. Source: Press Release