ADIF's Gauge Changer for Talgo and CAF

摘要

This paper presents the development of a new gauge changer platform (TCSR3) able to allow the pass of trains from TALGO and CAF. This new development have been promoted and managed by Adif, the Spanish Railways Infrastructure Manager in the frame of a cooperation research project called Unichanger with a more ambitious objective which is to integrate in a unique platform not only the Spanish technologies, but the rest of them existing in Europe, i. e. Rafil DB (German) and SUW 2000 (Polish). This new platform , called TRCS3, has been already built, installed and tested in an Adif s changeover facility close to Tarragona (Spain). The paper will first explain the problem of connecting different gauge networks and later it will detail the first tests as well as the main characteristics of this new platform.