The first pit stop starts with delay. Ten minutes, 15, 20. No wonder, you want to say, when German railway invites, but for this delay it can be nothing. It is Secretary of state who is waiting for you. This is nothing less than a future project of Bavarian rail transport, as speakers will be emphasized later on.
The Future project: This is a new train plant in Pasing. 207 meters long and 56 meters wide, about 50 million euro expensive. 2010 fell decision to build plant, 2015 began first construction work, this Wednesday afternoon is opening. From end of year, DB Regio will be waiting for your trains. This is expected to run faster and more efficiently in new workshop-which in turn will benefit passengers.
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Regional traffic is closely timed. The quicker DB Regio cleans and repairs its trains, better it can react to delays and failures. Or as Transport Secretary of State Gerhard Eck (CSU), who arrived after nearly 30 minutes, formulated: “The bottom line is more quality.”
In fact, old Pasinger Factory Hall, built 1938, came to its limits. As a solution, only a new building was in vicinity in question. The new hall is clear and brightly designed, many lamps, sunlight falling through ceiling windows. On five tracks, repair and cleaning teams can work in parallel.
Four of tracks are equipped with roof work platforms, such as galleries pull mselves through hall. The fifth track, a so-called long-standing track, comes without work platforms. It is lined with high, bright yellow lifting brackets. Toger, oversized jacks can lift up a whole train. An administrative wing and a material warehouse complement plant.
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Klaus-Dieter Josel, Bahnchef in Bavaria, proudly demonstrates new facility. Modern is, energy efficient, “prepared for demands of digitisation”. All this is a “big step” towards more customer orientation. Eck speaks of a day that ” railways of Bavaria” furr strength. The DB Regio and its daughters are responsible for 75 percent of Bavarian regional transport, so it is important to maintain efficient maintenance in order to be able to comply with measures.
Locomotives, coaches and multiple will be waiting in new hall in future. These include trains of Werdenfelsbahn or high-speed trains that will be commuting between Munich and Ingolstadt from end of 2018. The journey takes place over a two-and-a-half kilometre long track.
150 jobs are secured
A side effect: preservation of plant secures about 150 jobs in Munich. In addition, trains can drive electrically into hall with a power rail instead of diesel-that goes faster and quieter because shunting is omitted. The energy of plant is obtained from geormal power, CO ₂ emissions should be reduced by up to 80 percent.
Stop talking. Smoke rises from fog lights, a gate opens. Quietly, a double Stockzug of main-Spessart-Express rolls into hall through haze. Instead of going to Aschaffenburg, it is symbolic first pit stop. Overall project Alfred Kolbach presented Josel and Eck with a huge red key, also symbolic. Kolbach wishes good success. For first 50 years operation is designed in new train plant, a lot of time for future. Josel says, “Good luck.”
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