The defective train exported to Singapore China manufacturing meet Waterloo
According to the Singapore Lianhe Zaobao reported on July 5th, the train purchased by China Metro Limited from China is reported to have been returned to the original place of Qingdao for replacement due to cracks in the body. It is expected to complete the replacement before 2019.
It is reported that the trains arrived in Singapore from Qingdao, China in 2011, and the engineers of Singapore Metro Limited (abbreviation SMRT) in 2013 conducted regular checks, and found that the train was cracking on the part of the body and bogie. For the sake of safety, the Singaporean authorities returned the trains to Chinese manufacturers, who were obliged to replace their bodies free of charge because they had a guaranteed period.
The land traffic administration of Singapore has discussed with Chinese manufacturers to accelerate the replacement of the body for cracked subway trains. The project will be completed in 2019, four years ahead of 2023. On the 5 day of the Ministry of transport, the Ministry of communications clarified a series of questions about cracks on the government website, and indicated that these cracks are not serious safety problems, and will not affect the safety of subway system and passengers. The decision to make a replacement is only for safety considerations.
According to the Broadcasting British Corporation, there are two different statements about the number of changes in the train. The Singapore "Lianhe Zaobao" has 26 columns, and there are 35 media reports in Hongkong.
The government of Singapore in 2009 to spend 368 million yuan to the Japanese Kawasaki heavy industries, Kawasaki Heavy Industry Co. Ltd (Singapore) and Chinese Sifang locomotive and joint venture to buy 22 new trains, to provide more frequent train service. A few years after the Singapore authorities bought 13 more new train.
Aerial camera can see, 6 trains were placed in the Jurong industrial area in the west corner of a port. (fax machine pictures)
Reference News Network July 6th, Hong Kong media reported that the cracks from the mainland made Singapore Subway Train important structural components and the body, there are 35 trains to transport back to the origin of Qingdao to replace the body, and involved the mainland production car Shangnan Qingdao Sifang locomotive Limited by Share Ltd (CSR) is also responsible for manufacturing Guangzhou Shenzhen high-speed rail 9 trains in Hongkong. Hongkong subway line 93, only the new train. FactWire said that the material suppliers are different.
According to Hongkong's "Ming Pao Daily News website reported on July 5th, structural problems need to be transported back to Qingdao to replace the Singapore Subway Train, belonging to the C151A series, by the Singapore land transport bureau in May 2009, the contract awarded to Kawasaki heavy industries of Japan (Kawasaki heavy industries) and Singapore Branch, and associates Sifang composition.
"Ming Pao" quoted the fax service reported that C151A train operation since 2011, a lot of problems, including the passenger seat beside the glass because of the mainland battery manufacturing construction of bad times, continuous power system fragmentation train in the maintenance period of explosion.
Mentioned fax agency, MTR train purchased the mainland many times in recent years, in cooperation with CSR Sifang closely, and Sifang in March 2012 to 1 billion 740 million dollar bid for Guangzhou Shenzhen Hong Kong Express Rail contracts, supply a total of 9 columns, each column of the CRH380A 8 car trains, of which 3 columns have been completed. In July 2015, the Hong Kong Railway approved the contract with HK $6 billion, and ordered 93 rows of 8 Card trains to the South car side. It completely replaced the first generation British trains running on the Kwun Tong line, Tsuen Wan line, Hong Kong Island Line and Tseung Kwan O line.
The 93 trains of the new urban line produced by the South car and four sides are valued at 6 billion Hong Kong dollars. The fax office quoted the former chief executive of nine railways, Li Wen Xi, as saying, "the train price is very cheap."
MTR not reply "Ming Pao" query, but said the MTR written reply fax agency, MTR train body material purchase and use, C151A train body materials from different suppliers.
