News 2008

Section 1A2 of Glatttalbahn has opened for regular service.

While inserting the contact wire into the conductor rail, grease is applied to the grooves to ascertain contact and to ease the process. A new hydraulic device provides the appropriate quantity of grease irrespective of working speed.

Over one of the tracks in the Brig Train Shed the overhead contact line is mounted at maximum height, and sideways removed from the track axis, to make room for a crane runway above the vehicle roofs. Transition of contact wire height and stagger is made by a short portion of pre-bent conductor rail.

Furrer+Frey printed a new brochure showing the company profile. The brochure is available in English, French, and German.

Our new test site is ready. Samples as long as 4.50 m can be tested with a tensile force of up to 20 tons.

Work is proceeding on the steep line of the Schynige Platte Bahn, using hydraulic plant of our daughter-company UPAG, Worb.

DCM was used to measure contact wire height and stagger on Metro M1 in Lausanne, as well as on lines of asm and RBS.

Stage 1A2 of the Zurich-Glatttal-Bahn will create a new Tramway link to the Airport. During commissioning, measurements were conducted to verify the capacity of the power supply and contact line system even under adverse conditions (accumulation of trains, breakdown of a rectifier) and to measure touch voltages and stray currents.

At our booth we were exhibiting the third generation of the conductor rail and the english version of the ELFF-design tool, adapted for Network Rail. One could also take a look at our overhead contact lines as seen from the drivers cab in the simulator created by Biel University of applied sciences. In the outdoor display area we presented our latest plant which offered a splendid overview (see panorama created by Willy Kaemena; to be viewed with Quicktime).

Innotrans 2008

Presentation of the moveable overhead contact line on Galata Swing Bridge(PDF, 2,9MB),
by Daniele Apicella, Head of Furrer+Frey Italy,
on Friday, 13 June 2008 at the UITP Light Rail Conference.

After removal of the cross spans, the central sections of the two portals was lowered to the height of the end sections.
 

Furrer+Frey designed the new components for the new, fully compensated Overhead Contact Line and presented them on a full scale mock-up installation.
 

Two portals with a span of 55m have been erected in Mannheim. The central part is temporarily mounted high enough to pass over the existing Cross-Span.

Frau Regierungsrätin Barbara Egger-Jenzer und Herr Direktor René Schmid von Bernmobil zusammen mit Reto Marti anlässlich des ersten Spatenstichs des Trams Bern West, das mit Furrer+Frey-Fahrleitungen ausgerüstet wird.

General Manager of SOB, Dr Guido Schoch, acting as chief fitter for Furrer+Frey Overhead Line at the ground breaking ceremony for the new Wattwil Train Station.
 

A French-Algerian consortium is presently renovating the overhead contact lines between Bouchegouf and Souk Ahras under the supervision of Furrer+Frey. Soon, electric traction will be reinstalled on the first portion of the line.

Die vierte Generation der Familie Furrer an der Fachausstellung.

Heating elements clipped on the contact wire prevent hoarfrost from clinging to the wire and thus avoid excessive contact strip wear.