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What trams should Barnaul expect?
And indeed, by going to the government procurement website, we can easily find what we are looking for - Order No. 0317300301912000638 .
The practice has somehow developed that right in the competition documentation, the organizers often write what exactly they want to buy, indicating the brands and models.
The Barnaul authorities did not do this, but only indicated specific requirements for the desired trams.
The requirements are set out in the auction documentation (starting from page 13) , in brief they are as follows - 1) Passenger tram car, single-section, with two motor bogies, three-door, with a transistor control system for AC traction motors (hereinafter referred to as the car) and a variable floor level . 2) With a low floor in the middle part of at least 35% of the total floor of the cabin... 5) On the right side of the car, three double-leaf doors of the remote-sliding type should be installed with the doors located outside the body dimensions and with an electric drive. The drive of the door mechanisms must ensure automatic opening of the doors when a passenger gets between the doors. 6) Car bogie with two-stage suspension. The first stage of suspension is rubber-metal elements of the Mega type, the second stage is central spring suspension. The frame of the bogie is of an articulated design, ensuring constant contact of the wheels with the rails, ensuring safe movement of the car along the rails and excluding its derailment, as well as the passage of uneven rail tracks (with a difference in the height of the rail head of no more than 20 mm/m) without skew-symmetrical loads on the bogie and onto the rail tracks .
However, based on the requirements, you can try to understand what exactly the auction organizers want to buy. After googling, I discovered that for some reason the requirements apply to Belarusian trolleybuses.
Strange.
However, there are people who understand the issue more thoroughly.
Opinions generally agreed - we are talking about trams model 62103 produced by the Belarusian enterprise Belkommunmash .
Which is generally not surprising, it was previously reported that the Belkommunmash enterprise is discussing with the administration of Barnaul the issue of supplying vehicle kits for assembling Belarusian trolleybuses .
The specification of the model is available on the company's website , there are typos - instead of "tram" in some places it says "trolleybus", hence the confusion when searching.
Opinions about the quality of the model are reserved ( discussion here ), but they write that it is still better than the completely unreliable KTM trams.
The design (see picture below), in my opinion, is rather lackluster: inexpressive and outdated.
On the other hand, the price, the ultra-modern Skodas now plying around Prague and Riga cost more than 100 million rubles per car , it’s clear that no Russian city can afford this, and the choice of inexpensive trams is not that great.
However, let's see, the auction will take place on December 14, 2012, maybe there will be surprises, hopefully not unpleasant...
