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Siemens Velaro |
 Front car of the Velaro RUS, at Innotrans 2008 in Berlin |
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| Power type | electric |
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| Builder | Siemens |
| Total production | Velaro E: 26 Velaro RUS: 8 CRH 3: 60 |
| UIC classification | Bo'Bo'+2'2'+Bo'Bo'+2'2' +2'2'+Bo'Bo'+2'2'+Bo'Bo' |
| Length | 200 m including 8 cars with up to 536 seats1 |
| Locomotive weight | 425 t (Velaro E) |
| Electric system(s) | 25 kV 50 Hz (Velaro E) |
| Top speed | 350 km/h, 403 km/h max. (Velaro E, CRH3) |
| Power output | 8.800 kW 11.968 hp (Velaro E, CRH3) or 550 kW per motor |
| Tractive effort | 283 kN (Velaro E, CRH3) |
Siemens Velaro is a family of high-speed EMUs. They are based on Deutsche Bahn's ICE 3 high-speed trains. Unlike the ICE 3, the Velaro is a full Siemens product. Spanish RENFE was the first to order Velaro trains, known as Velaro E, for their AVE network. Wider versions were ordered from China for the Beijing-Tianjin high-speed rail (CRH 3) and from Russia for the Moscow - Saint Petersburg and the Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod routes (Velaro RUS).
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In 2001, RENFE ordered sixteen Velaro2, which will be designated AVE S-103. The order was later added to for a total of 26 trains. The trains will serve the 621 km Barcelona—Madrid line at speeds up to 350 km/h for a travel time of 2:25 hours.
The first units were delivered in July 2005 and completed their first test runs in January 2006.
On 15 July 2006 a train achieved a top speed of 403.7 km/h between Guadalajara and Calatayud on the Madrid—Zaragoza line. This is a Spanish record for railed vehicles and a world record for unmodified commercial service trainsets, as the earlier TGV (world record of 574,8 km/h) and ICE records were achieved with specially modified and shortened trainsets, and the Shinkansen (443 km/h, 1996) record was for a test (non-commercial) trainset.
On 19 May 2006 Siemens announced the ordering of 8 Velaro RUS high speed trains by Russian Railways including a 30-year service contract2. The contract is in total worth 600 million euros. The trains, connecting Moscow with Saint Petersburg, and later also Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod at a speed of up to 250 km/h, are based on the ICE3 train standard but with bodies broadened by 330 mm to 3265 mm to suit Russia's wide loading gauge.3 Four of the trains will be prepared for both 3 kV direct current and 25 kV alternating current operation. The total length of each ten-car train will be 250 m, carrying up to 600 passengers.
Development and construction is being carried out at Erlangen and Krefeld in Germany. Four single-voltage (3 kV DC) trains are planned to enter passenger service at the end of 2009 on the Moscow - St Petersburg route, with the dual-system trains entering service on the Nizhniy Novgorod route in 2010.
In November 2005, China ordered 60 Velaro trains2 for the Beijing-Tianjin high-speed rail line. The 8-car trains will be very similar to the Velaro E, but 300 mm wider to fit in almost 50% more seats in a 2+3 layout. In the CRH3 version, a 200 m Velaro train will seat 600 passengers.4 These trains are being manufactured jointly by Siemens in Germany and CNR Tangshan in China. The first Chinese-built CRH3 was unveiled on 11 April 2008.5 CRH3 reach a top speed of 394.3 km/h during a test on Beijing to Tianjin High speed railway on 24 June 2008.6
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