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Wheelsets for IEP
Chris Fawdry, managing director of Lucchini UK Ltd, details the wheelsets required for the Intercity Express Project, the contract for which was awarded recently to LUK.
On
Friday 2 May 2014, at an event at Lucchini UK’s (LUK’s) main plant
in Trafford Park, Manchester, Jamie Foster, procurement director of Hitachi Rail Europe, and I signed the frame contract for the supply of wheelsets for IEP. Local MP Kate Green was also present, to help fl y the fl ag for British manufacturing.
The wheelsets are unique to IEP and their design has come through collaboration between customer and supplier, specifi cally by engineers from Hitachi’s Kasado works and a team from Lucchini RS in Italy, who also validated the fi nal design.
Lucchini was chosen for this project for a number of reasons, but not least because of the
successful design validation and subsequent supply of wheelsets for the CTRL Class 395 ‘Javelin’
trains in 2008 and 2009. Since
then, LUK has been working for Hitachi as overhauler of both wheelsets and gearboxes for the Class 395 trains.
Returning to IEP, there are three wheelset types: a power wheelset fi tted with a Voith gearbox with an aluminium case, and two trailer wheelset types, one with an outboard bearing and one inboard.
EA4T steel is used for the axle, which in each case is hollow with a 60mm bore. The hollow bore enables axles to be inspected using state of the art semi-automatic ultrasonic equipment that utilises eight different probes to ensure
full inspection of the axle. The axle has been designed in accordance with EN standards for the power and outboard bearing trailer wheelsets; however, in the case of the inboard
Chris Fawdry (left) and Jamie Foster signing the wheelset supply frame agreement
122 | rail technology magazine Jun/Jul 14
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