Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CSR Qingdao Sifang CT251

Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CRRC Qingdao Sifang CT251
In service 2019
Manufacturer Kawasaki Heavy Industries
CRRC Sifang
Built at Qingdao, Shandong, China
Constructed 2015–2020
Entered service 2019
Number under construction 364 vehicles (91 trainsets)
Number built 364 vehicles (91 trainsets)
Formation 4 per trainset
Mc1-M-T-Mc2
Fleet numbers To Be Announced
Capacity 1,280 Passengers
Operator(s) To Be Announced
Depot(s) Mandai,East Coast(future)
Specifications
Car body construction Welded Aluminium Construction
Car length 23.6 m (77 ft 5 18 in)
Width 3.2 m (10 ft 6 in)
Height 3.7 m (12 ft 1 58 in)
Doors 40 (10 per car)
Maximum speed 90 km/h (56 mph) (Design)
80 km/h (50 mph) (Service)
Traction system IGBT-VVVF or Toshiba PMSM-VVVF
Electric system(s) 750 V DC third rail[1]
Current collection method Collector shoe
Safety system(s) Alstom Urbalis 400 Moving Block CBTC ATC with subsystems of ATO GOA 4 (UTO), ATP, Iconis ATS and SmartlockCBI
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 12 in) standard gauge

The train manufactured by Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CRRC Sifang under contract turnkey CT251 is the upcoming rolling stock to be used on the future Thomson-East Coast Line and Rapid Transit System Link.

91 trainset of 4-cars were purchased by LTA[1] and will be delivered from 2018 onwards. Train livery of the train is Khaki and brown stripes running around the train cars, similar to C951 trains (which uses teal and dark blues).

Tender

The tender for trains under the contract turnkey 251 was closed on 15 Nov 2013 with 6 bids. The Land Transport Authority has shortlisted all of them and the tender results was published on 28 May 2014.[2][3]

S/N Name of tenderer Amount ($S)[3]
1 Alstom Transport S.A. – Alstom Transport (S) Pte Ltd Consortium 954,410,000.00
2 Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. / Kawasaki Heavy Industries(Singapore) Pte Ltd & CSR Qingdao Sifang Consortium 749,840,000.00
3 Hyundai Rotem 765,856,000.00
4 Bombardier (Singapore) Pte Ltd, Bombardier Transportation GmbH & Changchun Bombardier Railway Vehicles Company Ltd Consortium 810,179,619.00
5 Construcciones Y Auxilliar De Ferrocarriles, S. A. 939,645,996.00
6 CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., Ltd. / Siemens Pte Ltd, Singapore Consortium 849,623,569.00

Manufacturing process

Kawasaki will be responsible for the overall project management, design, manufacturing of bogies and procurement of major components. CSR Sifang will be in charge of manufacturing, final fitting and assembly of complete MRT trains and factory testing. Kawasaki (Singapore) will be responsible for the delivery of complete MRT trains to the depot, on-site testing and commissioning.[1]

Features

The CT251 trains may include several features unique to this rolling stock.

Features include:

Train formation

The configuration of a CT251 in revenue service is DM1-M-T-DM2

Cars of CT251
car type Control Cab Motor Collector Shoe car length Wheelchair Bay
mm ft in
DM1
DM2
M
T

Doubts about the consortium

When the defects from the relatively new C151A trains constructed by same consortium made public on 5 July 2016, the discussion of this incident has turned into a political issue in Singapore after Gerald Giam from the Workers Party had made a Facebook post[4] about why the same consortium are awarded the subsequent contracts (Specifically both C151C and CT251 trains were awarded to the same consortium again in 2015, while the C151B was also awarded to the same consortium in 2012 instead) after the Land Transport Authority and SMRT officially knew the C151A crack defects as early as 2013.[5][6]

References

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