SUCCESSFUL TRACK TEST IN THE BUDA SECTION OF METRO LINE 4 / DURATION TESTS OF THE VEHICLE CAN BEGIN IN DECEMBER

ALSTOM has transported the prototype of the Metro Line 4 trains to Budapest in order to start duration tests in the middle of December. The precondition of this is the testing of the track in the section of the line between Kelenföldi pályaudvar and Móricz Zsigmond körtér, where the duration test will be carried out; moreover further control tests will be done on the vehicle which was tested in France, as well.

In the first half of November, Siemens successfully provided the traction voltage in the section between Kelenföldi pályaudvar and Móricz Zsigmond körtér, i.e. systems and power supply equipment the contractor installed are now complete; thus the most important precondition of the duration test is satisfied. The track test of the section where the duration test will take place was preceded by a construction supervisory site visit by the National Transport Authority in the middle of November, and the Municipal Disaster Management Directorate also held several inspections as a result of which it issued a letter on 23 November declaring that it had no objections to holding the track test on the section of the line.

DBR Metro Project Directorate does all it can to start the duration test in the middle of December and enable ALSTOM to obtain the final type licence for the vehicle by the February 2012 deadline it undertook. For this purpose, the non-vehicle-specific track test of the systems and infrastructure of the section of the metro line between Kelenföldi pályaudvar and Móricz Zsigmond körtér mentioned above was begun on Wednesday, 28 November, with a Russian train and, on Thursday and Friday, a licensed ALSTOM train both brought over from Metro Line 2. The night runs were successfully made during the night.

Parallel to all this, ALSTOM officially handed over the prototype train to the Hungarian authorities in Valenciennes on 23 November having carried out the tests required there, and then disjoined the train to have it transported to Hungary; two of the four cars arrived to the Fehér út depot in Budapest Thursday night, two Friday night. The control tests of the test result obtained in Valenciennes will also have to be conducted on the prototype train of Metro Line 4; these control tests will be conducted on Metro Line 2 because of the geometrical features of Line 4.

Mayor’s Office of the Municipality of Budapest
Budapest Transport Centre (BKK)
DBR Metro Project Directorate