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I dived deeper and found the full results of the eWayBW test and a summary. So far I don’t see there why the test was considered a failure. It’s all in German of course.
I didn’t read all of it but the technical side was mostly OK (as expected, it’s an adaptation of proven train technology), it’s just that there was little commercial interest.
The pantograph system in Germany failed though… Too ahead of its time?
And I’m saying this while being very much pro-pantograph. This has no chance if Germans couldn’t make an economical pantograph system.
Came here to say this. We tested this in Germany and this experiment failed. Too bad that they didn’t post the details then. I wish this had worked…
I dived deeper and found the full results of the eWayBW test and a summary. So far I don’t see there why the test was considered a failure. It’s all in German of course.
I didn’t read all of it but the technical side was mostly OK (as expected, it’s an adaptation of proven train technology), it’s just that there was little commercial interest.
That would mean that a more progressive country could use it successfully