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AnsaldoBreda V250
The Trenitalia ETR 700, originally NS Hispeed V250, is a high-speed train designed by Pininfarina and built by AnsaldoBreda originally for NS International and NMBS/SNCB to operate on the Fyra service, a high-speed train between Amsterdam and Brussels with a branch to Breda on the newly built HSL-Zuid in the Netherlands and its extension HSL 4 in Belgium.
V250s were delivered with a significant delay. Full commercial services with V250 started on 9 December 2012 but stopped only 39 days later on 17 January 2013, after the Belgian Railway Inspection Agency suspended the trains' operating license, because of safety and structural problems with the construction and maintenance of the V250s. All were removed from service and sent back to AnsaldoBreda in Italy.
In August 2017, Trenitalia purchased all 19 V250 sets to expand its high-speed fleet and rebranded them as ETR700s. After being refurbished, they entered service on Frecciargento services, on the Adriatic railway, between Milan and Lecce in 2019. Seventeen sets will be used for services, with the remaining two used for spare parts.
During 2004, it was announced that the Dutch train operator NS International and the Belgian national train operator NMBS/SNCB had placed a joint order for 19 V250 train sets that were intended for new high speed operations between Amsterdam and Brussels and Breda on the HSL-Zuid and HSL 4 high-speed railway lines. The initial delivery date was originally forecast to take place in 2007; However, by April 2008, it was stated that deliveries were now expected to take place by 2009 while the fleet's introduction to service was scheduled to occur by the middle of 2009.
By March 2009, manufacture of the first sets had been completed; in the following weeks, initial test runs were performed on the Velim test circuit in the Czech Republic. During April 2009, the first unit arrived in Arnhem in the Netherlands, and was towed to Amsterdam for tests. Around this time, NS International claimed that the type's introduction had been delayed due to the lack of a formal ETCS level 2 specification; by March 2009, HSA was allegedly close to financial ruin due to lack of any income; the firm's fiscal circumstances led to a re-organisation of track access charges for the unused HSL-Zuid line being arranged with the Dutch government.
On 7 July 2009, the service, branded Fyra, was introduced, along with the formal presentation of the prototype V250 train, at the high-speed train depot at Watergraafsmeer in the Netherlands. Thereafter, the prototype underwent testing on both high-speed lines, at which point there was an expected in-service date for the fleet of Autumn 2010, The introduction of any service on the HSL-Zuid had been delayed due to problems with the ETCS signalling system, and the line was built without any legacy safety system. In September 2009, services on the line commenced using conventional locomotive-hauled rolling stock, even though the introduction of level 2 ETCS coverage across on the whole line was not yet in place, and expected by June 2010.
During July 2010, the Dutch transport minister Camiel Eurlings stated that any introduction of a commercial V250 service on Dutch high-speed lines would not take place until December 2011. In March 2012, driver training on high-speed lines in the Netherlands began; at which point commercial use of the V250 was planned for September 2012.
In September 2012, a limited service of one return train every three hours between Amsterdam and Rotterdam began; the trains were also provisionally certified for use in Belgium that same month.
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AnsaldoBreda V250
The Trenitalia ETR 700, originally NS Hispeed V250, is a high-speed train designed by Pininfarina and built by AnsaldoBreda originally for NS International and NMBS/SNCB to operate on the Fyra service, a high-speed train between Amsterdam and Brussels with a branch to Breda on the newly built HSL-Zuid in the Netherlands and its extension HSL 4 in Belgium.
V250s were delivered with a significant delay. Full commercial services with V250 started on 9 December 2012 but stopped only 39 days later on 17 January 2013, after the Belgian Railway Inspection Agency suspended the trains' operating license, because of safety and structural problems with the construction and maintenance of the V250s. All were removed from service and sent back to AnsaldoBreda in Italy.
In August 2017, Trenitalia purchased all 19 V250 sets to expand its high-speed fleet and rebranded them as ETR700s. After being refurbished, they entered service on Frecciargento services, on the Adriatic railway, between Milan and Lecce in 2019. Seventeen sets will be used for services, with the remaining two used for spare parts.
During 2004, it was announced that the Dutch train operator NS International and the Belgian national train operator NMBS/SNCB had placed a joint order for 19 V250 train sets that were intended for new high speed operations between Amsterdam and Brussels and Breda on the HSL-Zuid and HSL 4 high-speed railway lines. The initial delivery date was originally forecast to take place in 2007; However, by April 2008, it was stated that deliveries were now expected to take place by 2009 while the fleet's introduction to service was scheduled to occur by the middle of 2009.
By March 2009, manufacture of the first sets had been completed; in the following weeks, initial test runs were performed on the Velim test circuit in the Czech Republic. During April 2009, the first unit arrived in Arnhem in the Netherlands, and was towed to Amsterdam for tests. Around this time, NS International claimed that the type's introduction had been delayed due to the lack of a formal ETCS level 2 specification; by March 2009, HSA was allegedly close to financial ruin due to lack of any income; the firm's fiscal circumstances led to a re-organisation of track access charges for the unused HSL-Zuid line being arranged with the Dutch government.
On 7 July 2009, the service, branded Fyra, was introduced, along with the formal presentation of the prototype V250 train, at the high-speed train depot at Watergraafsmeer in the Netherlands. Thereafter, the prototype underwent testing on both high-speed lines, at which point there was an expected in-service date for the fleet of Autumn 2010, The introduction of any service on the HSL-Zuid had been delayed due to problems with the ETCS signalling system, and the line was built without any legacy safety system. In September 2009, services on the line commenced using conventional locomotive-hauled rolling stock, even though the introduction of level 2 ETCS coverage across on the whole line was not yet in place, and expected by June 2010.
During July 2010, the Dutch transport minister Camiel Eurlings stated that any introduction of a commercial V250 service on Dutch high-speed lines would not take place until December 2011. In March 2012, driver training on high-speed lines in the Netherlands began; at which point commercial use of the V250 was planned for September 2012.
In September 2012, a limited service of one return train every three hours between Amsterdam and Rotterdam began; the trains were also provisionally certified for use in Belgium that same month.