News 2007

The new connecting line of Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn towards Furka has been equipped with Furrer+Frey FL200 Overhead Line Equipment.

Portal structures scanned in 3D can be incorporated in the OLE model set up with the ELFF design tool.

Grunder AG's powerful scanner is installed in a special container which is adapted to the loading gauge of UK railways or narrow gauge lines.
 

Since 1923 Furrer+Frey has been designing and constructing overhead contact lines for railways, tramways and trolleybuses. The conductor bar, first installed in 1984, offers an alternative to traditional overhead contact lines for low tunnels and for heavily loaded lines. New tunnels can be equipped with the high speed conductor bar (up to 250 km/h), which allows to do without feeders or tensioning equipment. Workshops or mobile bridges will be equipped with a moveable conductor rail. A model in scale 1:45 was on exhibition at Suissetransport.
Furthermore, Furrer+Frey presented the 3D-design-tool ELFF as well as the Dynamic Contact line Monitoring device DCM, which has been approved by DB for measuring height and stagger of the contact wire, and which can operate on standard gauge or narrow gauge track.

A new type of mobile overhead line allows to lift the conductor beam up to the ceiling to free space for work on the vehicle roofs.

On the SBB line Mahlenwald - Reuchenette the conductor rail has been mounted over the open track between tunnels. Delta-rope suspension allows for spans of close to 30 metres.
 

Furrer+Frey is a partner in the research project Catiemon of the European Union. Sick pantographs shall be discovered before entering lines of strategic significance. The train concerned can then be diverted to a siding and be verified. The Catiemon Test-Rig has been set up near Heustrich on the BLS Lötschberg line. International Tests involving a 465 of BLS and a 1216 of ÖBB will be conducted in August 2007. More about Catiemon 



 

The BLS access line to the Lötschberg Base Tunnel has been equipped with a Furrer+Frey FL200/260 overhead contact line system.

On its way to the depot at Bern-Eigerplatz  

Furrer+Frey showed its products and participated at a Seminaire organised by Suissetram 
 

The Templemills depot for Eurostar trains has been equipped with Furrer+Frey conductor rails complete with control panels and interlockings.
more (from The Rail Engineer Nov 2007)

Bernmobil has installed components of the "Stadtbahn" overhead contact line system between Viktoriaplatz and Breitenrainplatz. Swiss Federal Office for Transportation has approved the contact line system.

Furrer+Frey have equipped the Sunderland North Tunnel with a DC overhead conductor rail.
more (from The Rail Engineer Sept 2007)

Furrer+Frey will supply the overhead conductor rails for the tunnels. Installation is due to commence in March 2008.

The DCM monitoring system, mounted on a Tram of VBZ, is measuring the overhead contact lines on the Glatttalbahn

At acrps in Leipzig Furrer+Frey presented its products and was Co-Author of a paper on "The application of the RAMS standards to fixed electric installations".

Commissioning of the first overhead conductor rail for a curve of 20 m radius was successful.

DB Netz has approved Furrer+Frey's Dynamic Catenary Measuring System DCM for the measurement of static height and stagger at 25 km/h and contact wire uplift at 50 km/h under a life or switched off contact line.