14WE “Halny”

General data

• Design: 2004, Energocontrol Kraków,
• Producer: Newag SA in Nowy Sącz (d. ZNTK Nowy Sącz SA), established in 1876,
• System: driving car 410B + motor car 309B + control car 410B,
• Cars connected with bellows – internal and external, which ensures retaining temperature and sound isolation – in one space,
• Installation reconstructed according to EN57 diagrams with the application of new devices: manipulators, contactors, switches, pneumatic boards.

Basic parameters

• Maximum speed: 110 km/h,
• Acceleration with maximum load to 50 km/h 0.5 m/s²,
• Acceleration 0-100 km/h with no load 85 seconds,
• Braking deceleration 0.8 m/s²,
• Mean electricity consumption on route Warszawa Zachodnia – Warszawa Falenica during 48 minutes, depending on the vehicle’s load and external temperature 6.75 – 9.00 kWh/km,
• Mean electricity consumption on route Warszawa Rembertów – Warszawa Centralna – Pruszków during 41 minutes, with no load 5.36 kWh/km,
• Empty weight 132.6 t,
• Length 68.4 m,
• Maximum track bearing pressure 185 kN,
• Multiple-unit train control.

Drive parameters

• Supply voltage 3000 V DC,
• Pantograph DSA 200-PKP,
• Traction motor parameters: series DC motor LKf 450, 3000/2 V, 955 r/min, regenerated motors,
• Axle configuration 2’2’+Bo’Bo”+2’2”,
• Traction motor continuous power 145 kW,
• Traction motor hour rated power 185 kW,
• Number of traction motors 4,
• Motor nose link bushing.

Body

• Adapted for stops with platforms with a height over the rail top surface of 760-1060 mm, equipped in one step lighted after opening of the door due to a high difference in height of platforms at stops. In the front, additional steps from the ground level for staff and for potential evacuation of passengers,
• Internal lining from plastic profiles,
• Tilt windows secured with locks with air conditioning on,
• Number of doors – 12 (6 per side),
• Sliding plug doors opened with sensor switches and secured with sensors and photocell against squeezing,
• Entry to the driver’s cabin through a passenger compartment,
• Welded frame – brand new,
• Hollow profile skeleton – brand new,
• Glued stainless steel, aluminium, and plastic plating,
• Plastic front plating,
• Laminated heated windscreens,
• Side windows from glued glass units,
• Driver desk– European,
• System of handrails for passengers,
• Luggage racks,
• LT panel along a side wall,
• Connection with bogies: kingpins,
• Scharfenberg automatic coupler located at a height required by the EU (higher than in the previous rolling stock),
• Number of seats – 192,
• Number of standing places – 255
• The materials applied meet the Polish Norm PN-K-02511 March 2000 “Railway rolling stock. Fire safety of materials. Requirements.”

Auxiliary equipment

• Rotary screw compressor powered by an asynchronous motor 3×400 V, 50 Hz,
• Static converter,
• Air conditioner converter,
• Air conditioning device,
• Event data recorder,
• Electricity meter EM4T,
• CCTV with recording,
• Ticket validation system of the Municipal Transportation Authority in Warsaw,
• Electronic displays,
• Automated stop announcement system,
• Passenger-driver intercom,
• Maintenance computer integrating the vehicle’s electronic systems,
• Wheelchair lifts,
• Strip lighting,
• Halogen reflectors.

Chassis

• bogies type 36AN and 23 MN (bogies modernised from EMU EN57),
• First degree springing – metal-rubber springs; second degree – coil springs,
• Shock absorbers – hydraulic,
• Wheel sets – hoop,
• Trailing wheel diameter – 940 mm,
• Driving wheel diameter – 1000 mm,
• Minimum railway curve radius – 80 m (on technical railway for an unloaded vehicle at a speed of 10 km/h),
• Braking system – SAB-Wabco, rail Vehicles Institute,
• Mechanical block brake,
• Manual brake – take-up screw for one bogie.

The vehicle has the permission to operate the type of rail vehicle No. T/2007/0136, issued by the Office of Rail Transportation.

Prepared by: Rafał Wodzicki and Piotr Zagozdon 9 August 2007.