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million dollars worth of all grades to its fortified by the dod embassy despite canceling a third of its diplomatic stuff. right now it's no easy task to build an efficient railway network to serve the world's biggest country so to find out just how is it done stay with us for his technology update or. hello and welcome to technology update geographically massive countries like russia their advantages in efficiency the braille based transit or as big as the states themselves ever since man first tars the power of the locomotive engine has been a prime mover of both people and goods and that's something still very true today russia's railway system is currently the second largest in the world each year one

billion passengers combined are shipped to and fro on the country's long distance trains there are more than eighty five thousand kilometers of track and it's rolling stock pieces of more than twelve thousand locomotives given the massive network and the monumental task of keeping things running smoothly it's no wonder that russian companies are teaming up with some of the globe's leading firms for example years ago siemens was chosen to help implement high speed rail links between russia's two biggest cities following the success of the saab sun project the country's rail operator is looking to push ahead with further collaboration. we should cooperate constructively in order to produce high quality products but it's not just a one way street as it sometimes portrayed in the media about what simply importing some things can help resolve limited specific tasks such as providing. but in the

long term it's all about mutual benefit developing technologies together and producing at all factories here and that's what we expect to see in the long run. and the latest evidence of that cooperation was on display recently in the city of vienna located midway between moscow and some of the. railways is western european bound destinations it's a perfect meeting place for a truly international affair. the project at hand is to make travel between countries that use different braille just a little smoother officials were on hand to witness the unveiling of a new train car that makes switching between these different braille with easier the sleeping carriage is a joint project between siemens russia's national rail operator and carriage works . siemens is actually a sub supplier of carriage works. it's a combination of engineering approaches it shares innovation and joint designs so

in this case you can say this is truly a russian german austrian project. the final assembly of the new sleeper train cars is taking place at siemens his place in austria the century is finishing up the first ten carriages but just because the final screws are tightened abroad doesn't mean the russians are just sitting on the sidelines about thirty five percent of the components are produced right in russia. which. we're very happy with our cooperation with carriage works offering it's a traditional supplier of train cars for russian well. therefore we supported the decision to choose them as a supplier and we understand the requirements for localizing the production process in mind we agreed to divide the work in a certain way. and the carriage works is no small fry in the grand scheme of things in its own right it's one of the most storied and largest train car manufacturers

in europe the plant can trace its origins back as far as eight hundred ninety eight is sprawling territory encompasses ninety two had tears in twice the size of vatican city after full scale modernization from two thousand and five to two thousand and eight the factory churns out roughly one thousand two hundred carriages a year. they traditionally only produce third class sleepers but is now branched out to include metro and freight cars as well as the ever important undercarriage frames unlike russia most of europe uses so-called standard gauge rails which appear to near where all right see guidelines but for this joint project the two standards had to be combined. to go bowling with them if the frame for this all right see standard carriage is a new model more but if the final which corresponds to new requirements. it's been made to fit one thousand five hundred twenty millimeter gorge tracks this. it's built according to new engine e.-ring and design requirements that haven't been

applied in russia before. the bogey frame used on these cars doesn't have a fully variable axle both this new carriage passengers at least don't have to swap trains at the border by two thousand and fourteen to be added in siemens will produce two hundred of these train cars but this isn't the only big international project in russia. not a youth. group has a joint venture with siemens ain't cheap of them. the chelsea capsule is split fifty fifty if of this factory is called the ural locomotives which is located in the town of push ma in regions of the is according to the agreement signed last year and so she which we plan to reduce one thousand two hundred trains little by twenty twenty. given the planned influx of guests to the city of sochi a two thousand and fourteen the german company was selected to hook up with russian engineers to adapt their disease electric train for use in the seaside resort city

. the same basic blueprint has been adapted in many countries around the world but here the result is what they've named must discuss or swallow like the bird. but before those new trains can start whizzing world sport spectator from one venue to the next they have to go through a set of rigorous tests and those checks are taken. here russia's premier safety center located just outside of moscow. at the experimental ring in the front car long swallow is currently going round and round to make sure all its components are in perfect working order international specialists from siemens have also made the trip to assist their russian counterparts so even though they may have already german inspections they still have to pass russian checks and considering that russia's tracks are shared between passenger free to high speed and regular speed trains in many instances to the farm it's far far more stringent. over the coming

years eighty percent of the production process of those electrical locomotives will be moved from right here in russia for that they found a traditional center of manufacturing light which takes us to the city of to katherine burke located in region just beyond the year old mountains to areas machine building sector looms large and over the past thirty years sonora group's year old locomotives plant has been a key part of that three recent years the workers here have significantly increased production output by around fifty percent in two thousand and eleven at present their main focus is a pair of the feel like trick freight locomotives it's more recent granite model is a true beast acquit with more than eleven thousand horsepower worth of polling light it's about fifty percent more powerful than similar models last year the granite flexed its muscles for the public to lugging one thousand tons to the nearby urals but as a new facility gets built on the site the plant will be ready to put together the latest electric passenger trains. the trains that siemens is supplying to the

sochi olympics have been adjusted to fit to specific requirements and meet the concrete needs of the. is in fact. when making several times trains such as city trains. and this is something our engineers are working on. they want and starting from the thirty nine train final assembly and testing will take place here at the factory if they do nothing other what is this and gradually the production process of these trains with will be increasingly localized here crowing from twenty to eighty percent of what that you know with means to perform. but these new trains will be as useful as they are safe so for that reason the leaders of the joint project decided to install the very latest safety system in the small ones coming off the line the similar devices

have been in place on all trains for quite some time but until now they basically existed as individual components which couldn't corney their functions but three russian companies teamed up to fully integrate their products tom for the very latest and most effective system. the result is block whole system dedicated to gathering integrating and analyzing a constant stream of data on board unit takes in all kinds of info like location speed state of the driver traffic on the rails and commands from the dispatcher there are three main components which monitors the speed and positioning south which can hit the brakes of the system recognizes potential dangers and t.s.k. pm which is a brace of the keeps a watchful eye on the state of the operator. at the ritz the owner of the sit down i do have this bracelet is a radio transmitter with a digital unit the code signals as well as

a sensor or the verge of the bridge the sensor measures skin resistance between the two neighboring sections and then the resistance is digitalized coded into a signal and transmitted via radio channel to the task out b.m. equipment onboard the locomotive both. by relying on physiological signs and set of visual clues the bracelet system detects. potential danger in the conductor's condition early when the system understands that the driver is too tired or showing signs of getting sleepy initiates little tests and exercises to keep him or her alert thanks to their advanced system of monitoring physical sides not a single incident has occurred as a result of an operator not being alert enough a feat which required a bit of tricky engineering. to eliminate motion artifacts which can interfere in the measurement of resistance as well as temperature and other factors you should really old the resistance much stronger. signal now the

real brains behind the whole system is this big box of controllers and wires back out and you catherine burke this one is about to be installed in one of his freight trains developed by the us and assembled under the supervision of south it's responsible for coordinating all data in the system with whole sub suppliers to ensure quality control over all the components that are testing center. since we are the final supplier are all to much responsibility and provide guarantees for the entire unit. so that means south role here in addition to providing the automatic control in the braking system that's initiated if an operator unknowingly strays past a yellow or red signal on the tracks they also carry out the myriad of tests required for each and every piece of equipment given the sometimes extreme climate in russia many of the parts also have to undergo harsh to preach or testing. a

criminal has to be able to survive a one hundred twenty degree range from sixty below zero up to sixty above even the digital sensors that measure the train speed get a good going over and when you consider the number of lives at stake it's no surprise that every nut and bolt goes through such extensive checks. now it's safe to say that man's always dreamed of going faster and faster so as to come as no surprise that engineers have long tried to combine the speed of air travel with the convenience and comfort of training that with them even the most experienced operators have never driven the such a train. with jet propulsion. well that was at least until nearly half a century ago in one thousand nine hundred eighty one aviation and training engineers in the soviet union teamed up to attach to yak forty jet engines to a train car this odd looking machine took two test drives reaching two hundred fifty kilometers an hour but the soviets weren't the only ones interests in the idea

a few years earlier in one thousand nine hundred eighty six in fact an american team of engineers developed a similar jet powered train they're in for nine seven black beetle tops two hundred eighty five kilometers an hour which is still the light rail record in the country but those projects which is fanciful experiments not passenger trains and today and there's a monument to the project the goals of which were more than just speed for speed sake. there's a little grooves to train in carriage building institutes through such high speeds are able to get information about the dynamic load on the train cause as well as see how they behave that speeds exceeding two hundred kilometers per hour. at two hundred twenty. whereas the aircraft engine is wanted to observe how low level air flows affected the useful life of the engines. the project was eventually scrapped in one nine hundred seventy two the lessons

learned during the time trials helped lead to improvements that made more mild mannered high speed trains possible thank you the engineers involved a few new things to dream about. but if there's going to move into the process of building this test. the aircraft engineers came up with a fantastic idea to create a new type of high speed transport. powered by jet engines in the mirror which could reach speeds of up to five hundred kilometers. teams never pursued that idea a group in france did as early as nine hundred sixty five french engineers trying out a new design that was part. of basically two fold to power the vehicle using jet propulsion and to raise it off the ground slightly so the only resistance left was that of the air over twelve years numerous prototypes were built later versions

moved away from turbo jet engines with the last. sixteen hundred horsepower propellers. project to think she got the ax as well as the track being torn down in one thousand seven hundred seven. question of creating a specific built ties speed railway is still on the agenda and should somehow be implemented. in countries like france traditional light rail has been used to answer the high speed question the country's t.g.v. the world record for conventional train travel reaching five hundred seventy five kilometers an hour throughout europe the traditional fast rail has been the main way to reduce congestion on highways and airports as regards russia there's a handful of routes that already allow for two hundred kilometer an hour traffic the russian railways is working to build new tracks where the average speed will be no less than two hundred fifty kilometers an hour and for these not just any old

steel rails will do just got a high speed rail ways of particular rigidity are required for. that which is achieved through the micro awarning steel with the various elements why current for instance. thirds of russia is located in a very cold climate. for such conditions. low temperature resistant trails which are particularly to resume to cracky resistant to contact. and most importantly resilient to close. the lower the temperature rails are exposed to the more likely they are to fail that means that russia's railroads require different tracks to those used throughout europe and for that reason the experienced testers out and she have to check and see how different rails under varying climatic conditions are make sure

the country gets the highest quality rails suited for the climate as testing center is constantly busy with trying out new designs after taking the sample bits of rails down to temps as far as one hundred twenty degrees below zero put through a special test to check their ability under extreme circumstances a one to two ton weight is hoisted up to ten metres high it hangs there spins for just a moment and then the machine. fly unleashing a punishing blow to the sample bit waiting below. and some of the most technologically advanced rails capable of high speeds and thermal resistance will soon be produced right here in russia currently is prepping an existing plant. with the tools necessary for this task. we're installing a new. treatment equipment differentiated tempering new equipment

in order to produce one hundred meter rails but in other words you could say that we've built an entirely new plant from top to bottom and it's going to be the world's most advanced production settle that differentiated tempering techniques means rails will be treated twenty five meters away from direct heat this. make the head of the tracks extra hard and allows the pieces to be rolled in extra long sections all of which will make for a perfectly suited for faster travel for the time being those are just plans for today though for the workers back out here and there are plenty of other projects on the docket and the plant here has a wide range of different carriages but for me one of the more interesting models is their double decker sleeper car looking back a few years the factory here actually produced its first two story car more than a century ago but given current demands for more capacity the factory has recently developed a version of that model compared to its analog the two story sleeping carriage

police a mere six and a half tons for an increase of only seven percent and they can handle speeds of up to one hundred sixty kilometers an hour there are different modifications but diversions exclusively for passengers has room for sixty four travelers rather than the usual thirty six. this is a compartment of rama standard like in a normal one full carriage the first floor compartment is slightly bigger than on the second floor due to the carriages dimension let's go up stairs to see the layout of the compartments that. this is the second floor. design here is a bit worse than downstairs but still all the relevant safety no i'm sorry did too . this is the train's radio control point the train conduct to seat is also here he's in charge of all of the attendants also i hear there are satellite communication and navigation unit. we've got a compartment for passengers with disabilities equipped with

a specially designed bed as well as a seat for the person accompanying them nearby is the toilet specially designed for those with disabilities this is the elevator if a people with disabilities to raise them from the station platform up to the carriage with the assistance of the person accompanying them or the attendant sure normal true story trains are relatively common but this one from prides itself on how there's separates itself from the pack. in europe they built for short distances said the carriages equipped with seat since the journeys are just two or three hours in russia it's usually longer the requirements are different and therefore brushes passenger train engineering experience or to be taken into account specifically for these long distance carriages. like a few of the other projects highlighted in the show these double decker trains are likely going to help move visitors to and from the upcoming olympic games so this summer it appears that london isn't the only place with. increasing competition in

the industry other russian firms to push to develop cutting edge locomotives in fact russian railways shows up a wide variety of new types at its annual innovation exposition in moscow with that in mind there was plenty to please the i recently here at risky station at this year's show green seem to be the main theme of the day especially for some who are partly responsible for the electric swallow we talked about at the top of the program there were other eco friendly designs like those that liquefied natural gas as well energy savers but the one that caught our eye was a diesel electric hybrid. autos such as toyota prius energy savings on account of regenerative braking and an electric traction motor with the help of such engineering solutions the train's makers claim it can significantly reduce fuel consumption up to sixty tons of the combustible. each year now that hybrid is a far cry from one thousand nine hundred three steam engines like this and from

that time it was nearly a century before engineers and russia made the switch to the diesel powered brutes we know today but the new technology the latest green trains are nothing more than a few modifications away and those tweaks are taking place here at snorers factory in the city of. located southwest of moscow not too far from the border with della reese the factory used to be one of the giants a soviet train making like was so often the case following the breakup of the soviet union the plant fell on hard times throughout the one nine hundred ninety s. and early two thousand the former workforce of more than ten thousand has been whittled down to between two and three thousand. years the factories fortunes have been on the way up since arrived as a new shareholder the company is leaning on the plants and trees of experience to produce the very latest models. they mostly produce locomotives but not for passengers or freight instead for hauling carriages or machinery around the station

or industrial facility for that reason it should come as no surprise that it counts more than just the nation's railway operator amongst its biggest clients. partners our russian real were nice which accounts for about thirty percent of what we manufacture. gazprom affiliated companies which purchase about twenty percent of the do so locomotives we make the rest of our output goes to metal manufacturers coal mines and other smaller industrial enterprises. because the help of grants from russia's high tech promoting spoke of the fund sonora has built a brand new center of innovative development here in. this interest engineers have been able to work out the mechanical or technical issues of the latest trains before they go into production so the hybrid isn't ready for full. scale a symbol of just yet but engineers have got the first one up and running. they're

carrying out the number of tests trying to get the complex algorithms just right to maximize the official see and this lead green machine. for the hybrid scenario engineers took the basic design of their teeth and nine train thank you but a little extra juice because all the usual suspects a twelve hundred horsepower diesel engine cooling system and compressor also added a few extra bits to most notably a lithium ion battery that can store and regenerate energy additionally a whole set of controllers needed to coordinate the action between the batteries and the asynchronous motor has also been fitted. to this motor more smoothly and more appropriately regulates the rotational force applied to the axle as well as the fact that it practically doesn't require any additional labor. to operate. they are reliable and obviously should be cheaper than.

the hybrid can operate in three different modes there's a so-called power mode in which only the diesel engine is used to generate movement next is the economic draw some power from the battery and some from the diesel and last but not least is the ecological load when the train runs so we offer the battery power it's got enough juice to a full load for up to an hour that's ideal for using enclosed spaces in and around the depot. signed an agreement of intent with the russian railways chairman but he . says if i had by the end of the year and by the first of june next year we had to sign a supply contracts. despite the fact is equipped with the pretty powerful engine is designed to top one hundred kilometers per hour like many of the other trains. they classified as a shunting locomotive so even though orders are likely on their way don't expect to

see it at the front of your passenger train any time soon but anyways that'll do it for this locomotive centric edition of technology update we'll see you next time and you till then enjoy the right. to be. there hasn't been anything good on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. before source material is what helps keep journalism honest we talk. we want to present. something else.

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