Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corp (TISS) has received an order for traction system electrical equipment for 520 commuter train carriages (52 trains of 10 carriages each) for the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA).
TISS (
www.toshiba.co.jp) plans to start making some deliveries to the rolling-stock manufacturer Hyundai Rotem Co this year, with ‘commercial operations’ commencing at the end of 2020.
The order is for complete sets of traction system electrical equipment — such as transformers, power converters and traction motors — primarily for commuter trains that run on a line (about 430km long) along the west coast of Taiwan.
Two types of transformers will be delivered: the forced-air cooling type, which supplies power to both the auxiliary power units and the power converters that drive and control the traction motors; and the compact self-cooling type, which supplies power only to a power converter.
Starting in 2000 with deliveries of electrical equipment for rolling stock in the EMU600 series of commuter train, TISS has now provided the TRA with electrical equipment for more than 700 carriages; it has also supplied electrical equipment for the Taiwan High Speed Rail.
In 2015, the TRA announced a 10-year plan to invest 100 billion Taiwan dollars in purchasing over 1,300 new carriages, and it is currently in the process of carrying out that plan.