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Nordhausen The lines and their fleets Bahnhofsplatz, 3.2km/two miles, Railway and tramway double track but with a loop around In its current guise the Harz metre- the Südharz Galerie); 2 (Parkallee – gauge railway dates from 1993 when Nordhausen Ost, 4.6km/2.9 miles, operations were transferred from single track); and 10 (Nordhausen the former East German state railway Krankenhaus – Ilfeld Neanderklinik, Deutsche Reichsbahn to the HSB; 14.6km/9.1 miles, including the NORDHAUSEN: the HSB is owned and supported by HSB section). local states and communities. The depot is on Grimmelallee, on Most of its roughly 1.1m the route of line 2. passengers last year travelled in steam-hauled trains on the section The fleets… AN UNUSUAL ‘DUO’ between Wernigerode and the VBN’s core fleet is now made up Brocken at the northern end of the of Combinos, of which there are Where else can you see ancient steam locomotives and modern 140km (87-mile) system. nine uni-directional conventional The HSB network consists of vehicles (101-109, delivered 2000-11) COMING UP IN 2015… innovative technology in service together? Tony Streeter three ‘main lines’, the Harzquerbahn and three bi-directional Combino reports on Germany’s ‘Nordhausen Model’. (Nordhausen – Wernigerode); Duos (201-3, delivered 2004). Selketalbahn, which runs from GT4 vehicles are no longer in Quedlinburg to Eisfelder Talmühle, service. The tramway also a junction with the Harzquerbahn maintains ‘bistro’ vehicle 59 (Gotha, t’s enough to make you take a second land (there are also branches); and the 1961), and the historic cars 23 look. On one side of the is Combino – rolling Brockenbahn, which runs to the (Wismar, 1934) and 40 (Gotha, 1959). platform is a Siemens mountain of the same name and The HSB is home to five diesel in at the other is a steam-hauled train. diverges from the Harzquerbahn at railcars delivered in the 1990s • The future of rolling stock Each are regular services; both can be Drei Annen Hohne. (187.015-9) as well as a number The system’s oldest section Iused with local zone-based tickets. of older vehicles. It has three This is Ilfeld in Thuringia, central opened in 1887, the newest – operational 199.8 diesel locomotives, the regauged route between plus diesel shunter 199.011. Germany, and these are the metals of the Gernrode and Quedlinburg – in The railway has 25 steam metre-gauge Harzer Schmalspurbahnen 2005. The stretch from Nordhausen locomotives – not all operational (HSB) – the Harz narrow gauge railways. to Ilfeld dates from 1897. The HSB is – of which the oldest (99.5901) For a decade now such sights have been a single-track throughout. dates back to 1897 and is primarily Nordhausen’s tramway opened • regular part of the timetable. For while the reserved for special workings. Noise and vibration HSB is known the world over for its steam- in 1900. It is now operated by Most locomotive-hauled trains use hauled trains favoured by tourists it also has the municipal Verkehrsbetriebe 1950s-designed steam engines from an important local people-moving function. Nordhausen over routes 1 the series 99.7231-99.7247. (Nordhausen Krankenhaus – Where else in the world can you hop off a tram onto a railcar, a bus… or a steam train? The story of how this unusual synergy arose, and the reason for the creation of the hybrid tram, was born in a • Combino Duo EMC: Challenges and solutions concerted will to regenerate these former East German systems in the 1990s. For a century the Harz railways and the Nordhausen tramway had coexisted – their metre-gauge rails close but never physically joined. Changing that meant not only connecting the two, but devising vehicles to run on Old and new… Combino Duo 202 alongside 1897-built Mallet 99.5901, the • both the electrified tramway, and the non- Rolling stock review: Global trends and analysis oldest locomotive on the Harz system, at Ilfeld. Other than the steam-hauled electrified HSB. The driving force, after a passengers (27 seated). Compared to the train, much in this scene is new, including the modern platform installed in 2006. period in which the future of the tramway to travel on through the town have had to non-hybrid vehicles delivered before them HSB/M. Bein and railway were both debated, was a real disembark at the Nordhausen Nord terminus they carry fewer people: either 13 or seven (14 attempt to make both systems relevant in the then walk out to the tramway or bus stops on or six seated). With a weight of 25 tonnes the The core of Nordhausen’s fleet is made up of Combinos. Here a Combino Duo 201 changing years after the GDR became part of the Bahnhofsplatz (‘Station Place’) outside. Duo trams are also one tonne heavier. travels between Ilfeld and Ilfeld Neanderklinik on 19 April. The folded pantograph is visible on the middle section, while the vinyl wrap on the vehicle advertises Germany’s federal republic. That’s what the ‘Nordhäuser Modell’ – or These differences come about because the Nordhausen’s swimming baths. Tony Streeter On Nordhausen’s tramway, that meant Nordhausen Model – has changed. Duos house an eight-cylinder direct injection • New system openings in 2015 replacement stock to take over from the 3.9-litre diesel engine plus associated ageing Gotha fleet – first secondhandGT4 – Duo decade equipment for the trams’ diesel-electric trams from the ‘West’, then Combinos It’s ten years since the launch of the service transmission. This has been found room in as well as infrastructure work including a that allows change-free travel across the metals the passenger area, the motor being mounted 1.8km (1.1-mile) extension opened in 1993. of both the tramway of Verkehrsbetriebe inside a box-shaped compartment between On the railway, it meant abandoning Nordhausen (VBN), and the HSB: the full line two sets of doors in the middle section. previous plans to replace steam locomotives 10 timetable began operating on 1 May 2004. , Externally, the vehicles are marked out by with 30 regauged diesels, instead retaining Core to making it work is the Combino Duo prominent ‘Duo’ markings. are dedicated to line • Ticketing and fare collection innovation the steam for the increasingly tourist- of which three examples were delivered by The Combino Duos orientated locomotive-hauled passenger Siemens in 2004. The mounting onboard of 10, which is effectively an extended version trains, while acquiring railcars for quieter a BMW diesel motor meant that trams 201-3 of VBN’s line 1. That runs 3.2km (two miles) flows and modernising a much smaller fleet of (187.201-3 in the HSB system) could run away from Nordhausen Krankenhaus (hospital) to diesel locomotives for a focus on freight work. from the overhead wires of the VBN, over a Bahnhofsplatz, with a one-way loop round The HSB’s local passenger role is most new connection between the two systems the central area serving Südharz Galerie, important on the relatively flat and industrial and on the tracks of the HSB. Bahnhofsplatz and Atrium-Passage. In total southern part of its 140km (87-mile) system, Nordhausen had received its firstCombinos the Nordhausen network runs over three • Optimising depot design well away from the tourist draw that is the in 2000 – the order for the hybrid version routes (1, 2 and 10), and the VBN system itself Brocken mountain, northern Germany’s followed some two years later. Closely based has a length of 18km (11 miles). highest and a major source of income. on the non-hybrid vehicles previously Unlike line 1, line 10 does not terminate at ABOVE: Having raised its pantograph shortly before at Bahnhofsplatz, 201 threads through Nordhausen’s centre on its way to Krankenhaus. Tony Streeter Here, the railway ends at Nordhausen, delivered, the 100% low-floorDuo trams Bahnhofsplatz. Instead, by changing the Duo ABOVE RIGHT: Nordhausen Bahnhofsplatz on 19 April. HSB Railcar 187.019 is on a service to Ilfeld Neanderklinik, while Combino 109 is on line 1. The ochre building on a busy town of around 40 000 that makes have three-sections (the initial Nordhausen from overhead electric to diesel-electricParis mode the left is Nordhausen Nord, while behind the railcar is the connecting line to the HSB; this has been used by HSB railcars since it opened in 2002 and Duo trams since were the first three-section variants) 2004. Behind 109, a Duo is just visible. Tony Streeter / 245 a natural focus for the smaller nearby Combinos and by running over HSB metals services it . www.lrta.org JUNE 2014 communities of Niedersachswerfen and and two powered bogies. They are 2.3m reaches out over a further 11km (seven miles) www.tramnews.net Ilfeld. Traditionally though, people using wide and 20m long, with capacity for 95 • Passenger Information Display Systems systemsthe HSB line into Nordhausen but wanting factfile Comment . www.lrta.org www.tramnews.net 244 / JUNE 2014 T5 and T7 - special Paris, France FLEXING SOME MUSSEL POWER: Neil Pulling samples the different modes used on the latest openings Paris A REGIONAL APPROACH of lines identified as tramways in the Paris metropolitan area.
FRANCE Innovative collaboration has created a unified approach to smart ticketing in relation to public transport around the UK's River Fal area. Mat Taylor examines some of the difficulties posed – and overcome – in System profiles include: this singular venture of smartcard implementation.
mart ticketing systems are now well established in The Fal Mussel Card (taking its name from one of the River major towns and cities around the world to cater for Fal’s most famous exports, mussels thriving in the waterway) – both regular and occasional public transport usage. is the solution to increasing public transport use for both visitors As such, London’s Oyster card, Hong Kong’s Octopus and residents. I spoke to Tommy Tonkins, the company’s then- and Melbourne’s Myki are all familiar additions to the Marketing Manager, at the company’s offices on the Feock side of • Calgary • Daugavpils • Edinburgh • Gold Coast Swallets of millions, allowing seamless integrated travel on trams, the river to discuss the challenges faced of this latest venture. metro trains, buses and ferries. Software development for the locally-based card was one of the However, often complex contractual and delivery biggest issues, as a dedicated programmer was required on the arrangements can make their implementation a daunting project for a significant period. All of the handheld devices had to prospect for smaller towns or regions looking to take advantage be identifiable, especially as some of these devices were to be used of their benefits and broaden the scope of public transport usage. by third-parties who would need to be recompensed accordingly Split apart by rivers, estuaries and tributaries, the lie of the from data collected by the machines. All of the computers at the land makes travel around the Fal River top-up centres had to feed into the • Helsinki • Houston • Kassel • Melbourne area in Cornwall in the UK’s central network so that cards were ready south-west something of a challenge. to be used as soon as the customer had Long car journeys are often topped them up. And all of this had to necessary to navigate around be resolved when up against the biggest these insurmountable features. hurdle of all: time. However, local transport operators Revenue collection and its distribution have collaborated on a different also represented significant challenges, approach to traversing the region: but these were overcome with hard • Nottingham • RNV • Shenyang • Washington the Fal Mussel Card. efforts placed in collaborating with Led by Cornwall Ferries and similar third-parties, resulting in a high level of in concept to London’s Oyster, the trust when it comes to paying external Fal Mussel Card can be topped up at providers. The system allocates all of the any of the company’s access points respective monies and the bills are settled and used as a pre-paid means of annually without fuss or question. purchasing tickets on all boat and bus The team approach, coupled with services, whereas the visitor Fal Mussel the relatively low capital investment Card can be bought in advance and (less than GBP100 000/EUR120 000), used for unlimited hop-on hop-off The Fal Mussel Card smart ticketing solution benefits has resulted in a very successful smart customers and around 300 affiliated businesses, with many services around the region. ticketing system. This benefits not registering business increases of 80%. Fal River n 2013 Parisian public sector Close links with other local only Cornwall Ferries and its affiliates, Aviation the city’s radial heavy rail pattern operator RATP added two using the Translohr rubber-tyred transport providers means that this but more importantly the passengers dominates spreading from the many dispersed tram-designated lines, T5 and T7’s southern system rather than a conventional singular smart ticketing travelcard “As a user of the Fal Mussel through discounts, ease of use and central termini. In concurrent T7, to the transport system, surroundings: the tramway may seem surprising. The can be used on a variety of services, sustainable transport options. development, T5 and T7 both have a Card for local residents, I now core of the STIF Île-de-France British Airways first installation (2006) was in the for example, on the local buses As a user of the Fal Mussel Card, Editorial topics subject to change. Contact Geoff Butler for regionalI network. Both addressed liveried side of mainly north-south axis within ticket operated by Western Greyhound. I now see it as invaluable for both French city of Clermont-Ferrand, preserved Concorde zones 3 and 4. Both are outside ‘Paris see the card as invaluable for the need for capacity and quality later systems including Padua in Some 300 companies to date have business and leisure. This smart 102 faces Porte de Ville’ boundaries, widely separated improvements in areas mainly Italy and Tianjin in China. The an affiliation with the card, some of ticketing solution encourages, and dependent upon buses. l’Essonne terminus. yet well within the metropolitan area, these being transport providers, others both business and leisure... ” more importantly enables, a much more All pictures Neil abandonment by Bombardier of its Although Métro extensions have with T5 north of the Seine and T7 to local businesses offering discounts and sustainable approach to travel; it is Pulling, March 2014. rival GLT/TVR system as installed – the south. special promotions to cardholders. With business having something that could easily be implemented in smaller towns and been added, this system remains and prematurely closed, now to be Their key distinction is being grown by some 80%, it is not only the customers who have cities that lack the clout of an overarching transport authority. substantially a concentrated resource replaced by a conventional steel wheel different modes, with T5 a ‘ seen the benefits of the Fal Mussel Card through its ease of use The benefits for‘ tying in’ light rail systems in smaller conurbations for the capital’s centre. By the 1970s tramway on steel rail tramway – in Caen and the an up-to-date list of focus features for the coming months. sur pneus’ (rubber-tyred tram) guided and simplicity. with other forms of public – and private transport – are obvious. the RER cross-city heavy rail system 2011 announcement ending French by a single central rail. This is gripped However, this hasn’t come about without some significant The Fal Mussel Card stands as a fine example for all transport including central stations and Métro trolleybus production (Irisbus-Alstom on both sides by V-inclined flanged hard work by Cornwall Ferries. The company provides ferry providers, small or large, demonstrating that the benefits of interchanges were connecting Cristalis metal guide wheels mounted on the as used in Lyon) has since done services on and around the River Fal from St Mawes and Place, collaboration and teamwork soon get passed back to the people the outer suburbs. A comparative little to advance alternatives to trams. late-comer in 1992, light rail was frames of each wheelset, which has and there’s also the Enterprise fleet of boats travelling between who matter the most – the passenger. However, commitment to the Truro and Falmouth. In addition, the company runs a bus introduced to improve transport a pair of rubber tyres. The frames Mat Taylor has over 20 years experience in the transportation sector Translohr system for Paris – the 6.6km service. In short, this is one multi-modal transport provider that between communes and as feeders to also incorporate a projection to eject and has advised clients worldwide on a variety of commercial matters. (4.1-mile) T5 and the more capacious understands it’s not just the tourist influxes that use the ferries the network. objects that could derail the guides Mat continues to provide the sector with commercial support through 14km (8.7-mile) T6 in south-west Paris, as convenient tourist attractions, but local residents also as an Viaduct Ltd, a company set up to promote transport projects in a sustainable We value your input into our future editorial calendar. The new lines differ from the other and a current return path via the rail. due to open in December 2014 – came effective means of transport. and economically efficient manner. Given the success of RATP tramways modern Paris tramways which take several years prior to these events and since T1’s 1992 debut, plus T1 and largely orbital paths to cut across well before the financial problems at T5 being such near neighbours, parent company Lohr Industrie.
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