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NORTHERN EUROPE PROFILE: NSB AS
The search
for the train of
the future
There is no doubt that trains are the future of transport – and for NSB, the future
starts now, as the groundwork is being laid to make the train the number one
means of transport in Norway. Emil Eike, together with Stein Nilsen and Torod
Gjermundsen, explain to readers of European Railway Review, how NSB is
planning its largest ever order for new trains, and how it has also launched a
comprehensive project to upgrade existing rolling stock.
Emil Eike, Project Manager for From a European rail perspective, NSB is minimise maintenance costs. This initiative
New EMUs, Stein Nilsen, Group
a relatively small-scale actor, serving is now well underway,” says Mr. Nilsen.
Director and Director of
Passenger Trains Division and
primarily the Norwegian market. In 2007, In the first instance, NSB will acquire
Torod Gjermundsen, Director of the train operating company carried a rolling stock to cope with journeys up to
Technical Services, NSB AS
total of 50.4 million passengers, four hours. The tendering companies have
representing an increase of 5.1% over the been asked to clarify how these same
previous year. trains can also be used on commuter
“We envisage the train as the number routes and stretches with journey times of
one form of transport in the future, but up to eight hours.
only on condition that we can deliver Mr. Nilsen adds, “If we are able to use
what the customer expects,” explains Mr. the same units for all our rail service
Nilsen. “We have therefore taken the first output on electrified lines, this will
steps towards the biggest ever represent substantial added value. But
procurement of rolling stock in NSB's equally we cannot allow ourselves to
history. By the end of the year, we will compromise too much.”
have signed a contract for the acquisition
of 40-60 Multiple Unit trains, with an
‘‘NSB and the Norwegian
option for a further 100 train sets.”
authorities agree that the
Focused initiative new trains must be the
The new trains will make up the first
best they can be, for all
delivery of NSB's next-generation
passengers’’
rolling stock.
“We have adopted a strategy for the
future which consists of having the fewest Universal design
possible different types of rolling stock, in One area that is steadily growing in
order to increase our flexibility and importance in the transport sector is
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