V250 (train)
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2nd class interior
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| In service | 29 July 2012-17 January 2013 |
| Manufacturer | AnsaldoBreda |
| Built at | Pistoia |
| Entered service | 2012 |
| Number under construction | 19 |
| Number built | 9 delivered/19 built total order: 19 NS International: 9/16 NMBS/SNCB: 0/3 (open orders cancelled) |
| Number in service | 0 |
| Number preserved | 19 |
| Formation | mAk+AD+mAB+B+ B+mB+B+mBk |
| Fleet numbers | 4801-4816, 4881-4883 |
| Capacity | 546 127 first, 419 second class |
| Operator(s) | High Speed Alliance |
| Depot(s) | Amsterdam Watergraafsmeer |
| Line(s) served | HSL-Zuid, HSL 4, SNCB line 25 |
| Specifications | |
| Train length | 200,900 mm (659 ft 1 in) |
| Car length |
driving cars 26,950 mm (88 ft 5 in) intermediate cars 24,500 mm (80 ft 4 5⁄8 in) |
| Width | 2,870 mm (9 ft 5 in) |
| Height | 4,080 mm (13 ft 4 5⁄8 in) |
| Floor height | 1,260 mm (4 ft 1 5⁄8 in) |
| Doors | 24 |
| Articulated sections | 8 |
| Maximum speed | 250 km/h (160 mph) |
| Weight | 423 t (416 long tons; 466 short tons) full loaded service weight 485 t (477 long tons; 535 short tons) |
| Power output | 5,500 kW (7,400 hp) |
| Acceleration | 0.58 m/s2 (2.1 km/(h·s); 1.9 ft/s2) max |
| Deceleration | 1.2 m/s2 (4.3 km/(h·s); 3.9 ft/s2) max |
| Electric system(s) | 25 kV AC, 3 kV DC, 1.5 kV DCCatenary |
| Safety system(s) | TVM , BAcc/SCM ETCS Level 2 |
| Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge |
The V250 was a high-speed train, designed by Pininfarina and built by AnsaldoBreda to operate on the Fyra-service, a high speed train of NS International and NMBS/SNCB between Amsterdam and Brussels with a branch to Breda on the newly built HSL-Zuid in the Netherlands and its extension HSL 4 in Belgium.
V250 trainsets were delivered with a significant delay. Full commercial services with V250 started on 9 December 2012 and stopped only 39 days later on 17 January 2013, after the Belgian Railway Inspection Agency had suspended the operating license. This happened because of safety and structural problems with the construction and maintenance of V250. All trainsets were removed from service and sent back to AnsaldoBreda in Italy.
NS International and NMBS/SNCB ordered 19 trainsets in 2004 for operations between Amsterdam and Brussels and Breda on the HSL-Zuid and HSL 4 high speed railway lines. Initially delivery was foreseen for 2007. In 2008 expectations were for deliveries by 2009 and an introduction into service by the middle of 2009.
The first trainsets had been manufactured by March 2009, and initial tests on the Velim test circuit in the Czech Republic took place in early 2009, In April 2009 the first unit arrived in Arnhem in the Netherlands, and was towed to Amsterdam for tests.
The NS International had claimed that the delay of introduction of any trains was due to the lack of a formal ETCS level 2 specification; by March HSA was close to financial ruin due to lack of any income, and a re-organisation of track access charges for the unused HSL-Zuid line had to be arranged with the Dutch government.
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