德国演示新一代高铁动车ICE 3
中国经济网北京10月20日讯(王红娟)德国铁路股份公司(Deutsche Bahn)星期二在伦敦附近的St. Pancras车站公开演示了采用先进技术的新一代高铁动车，同时公布了一份欧洲高铁联网计划。此次演示的目的是向公众表明最新一代高铁动车可以安全地通过英吉利海峡。
德国铁路股份公司希望在2013年开通伦敦至法兰克福的高铁运营路线，并计划将其进一步拓展至荷兰的阿姆斯特丹、鹿特丹、比利时的布鲁塞尔和德国科隆。这种新型动车是西门子公司制造的ICE 3，稳定运行时速高达320公里(合每小时200英里)。
据CNN的报道，这份高铁互联计划将把欧洲高铁线路与英国高铁线路连接起来，并有可能实现并网运行。届时，从英国伦敦乘座高铁可以直达欧洲主要大城市。
德国BR50型蒸汽机车
BR50型蒸汽机车是一种2-10-0轴式的货运蒸汽机车，是当时德国“标准蒸汽机车”的一种，也是德国制造的最为成功的蒸汽机车型号之一。
该型机车的制造亦是纳粹德国战备计划的一部分，因此吧BR50也被称为“临时战时机车”（比BR52等“战争机车”多了个“临时”）。至1948年，共有3164辆BR50型被制造出来，而参与制造的厂家更是囊括了几乎所有欧洲大陆机车生产厂商。
BR50型机车较低的轴重使得它具有了极高的通用性，可以在各种干线或支线上使用。1968年以后所称的DB050、051、052、053都是之前的BR50。
到1945年二战结束时，除去战时损毁，欧洲仍然保有大量BR50型。德国联邦铁路得到了其中的2159辆，这些车辆在之后很长一段时期内同BR44型构成了德国铁路货运的主力，并且也用于客运。
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Blue Tiger in Vacha, Germany
Blue Tiger locomotive designed by Adtranz in Germany
Blue Tiger Class 26 Diesel Electric mainline locomotives for Malaysia - KTM
The Blue Tiger (manufacturer designation: DE-AC33C) is a type of high powered diesel-electric locomotive developed by AdTranz in association with General Electric.
History and design
Initially the axle load was expected to be a light 18tonnes, and the power at ~2500kW. In practice the German locomotives had an axle load of 21t; normal for this type of diesel locomotive.
General Electric supplied the diesel engines, and electrical tranmission system – which utilised IGBT based inverters driving ‘AC’ motors. The rest of the locomotive was built by AdTranz in Kassel
For the Pakistani export models a 16 cylinder engine was used.
Bombardier took over AdTranz in 2001, subsequently the Blue Tiger locomotive was shown at InnoTrans in 2002 with a view to European orders. The German production models had a mass of 126t (axle load 21t) and an engine power of 2,430 kW.
As of 2009 the class are no longer listed a production models by Bombardier, GE lists also lists the family as former production types. For the european market Bomabardier produces the less powerful diesel variants of the TRAXX family, whilst GE offers variants of its Evolution series for export.
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