Voith Turbo
Connecting Forces - Driving Innovations Reliable Drive Components, Couplers and Service Concepts

Voith Turbo, a group division of Voith, is a specialist producer of hydrodynamic drive, coupling and braking systems for commercial vehicles, rail and industrial applications, as well as for the ship propulsion systems.
T 312 bre turbo transmission – universal transmission
High efficiency and input power of up to 650kW make the T 312 bre a state-of-the-art transmission for high-speed railcars, which achieve speeds of up to 220km/h. It excels, with its smooth, almost wear-free start-up.
The transmission is insensitive to vibrations, as well as thermal and mechanical overloads. The T 312 features a service life of over 1.2m kilometers until the first major overhaul, depending on service conditions.
Rail couplers for light-rail vehicles and high-speed trains
The name Voith Turbo Scharfenberg still stands for quality and innovation after more than a century, since the concept of the automatic Scharfenberg coupler was born.
Over the years, incessant technical refinements and up-to-date technology have made the Schaku one of the world’s most prominent railway coupler systems, in use all with transportation including light-rail vehicles and high-speed trains.
Everything from one single source
Voith RailPack for Diesel DrivesVoith underlines its systems philosophy with the RailPack, a PowerPack for diesel drives, which can be fitted with hydrodynamic, electric and hydromechanical drives. The version on show features the hydrodynamic S111 transmission for rail applications in a power range up to 250kW.
On the strength of its robust technology it can cope with all operating and weather conditions, and requires only little maintenance. Combined with long oil-change intervals, this ensures continuously low operating costs. As a further installation option, Voith shows its hydromechanical DIWARail transmission.
The hydrodynamic brake significantly minimises wear on mechanical brakes. Due to the parallel shaft reversing transmission of the DIWARail, reversing on the gear units is no longer required. This reduces the mass of the gear unit, resulting in less wear and improved running properties. Towing trips while the engine is switched off are also possible.
System service at Voith
While the term ‘Service’ used to be mainly associated with repairs and spare parts, Voith now proves exactly the opposite with modern service concepts. This includes just-in-time schemes, with overhauls within a precisely defined window or preventative overhauls, as well as exchange pools for transmissions and Scharfenberg couplers.
Under the heading ‘Systems Service’ Voith goes one step further. At its location in Kiel, Voith carries out major overhauls of entire vehicles. In the future, the site will offer the removal and reinstallation of complete bogies, within one day. The removed bogies are overhauled, while the operator will be able to put his vehicle back to work the following day with the serviced exchange unit.
The all-inclusive scheme helps operators to reduce downtimes. At the same time, the overhaul periods are used by Voith to upgrade drive components to the latest technical standards, repairing damaged vehicles or integrating completely new systems into the vehicle infrastructure. Such product improvements are at the heart of the modern Voith service concept.
About Voith
Founded in 1867, Voith employs more than 39,000 people, generates €5.3bn in sales, operates in around 50 countries worldwide and is today one of the largest family owned companies in Europe.
Voith sets standards in the energy, oil and gas, paper, raw materials and transportation and automotive markets.

High Speed 1 (HS1), United Kingdom
The High Speed 1 railway project was implemented in two phases, involving Section 1 and Section 2.

ForCity Smart Low-Floor Trams, Czech Republic
The ForCity Smart tram has been ordered for operation in multiple cities in Finland, Germany and the Czech Republic.

West Coast Main Line
The modernisation of the 399-mile (641.6km) rail route between London and Glasgow and its key divergences to Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester, was the largest rail project to date in the UK.

Shinkansen, Japan
Japan is where regular, high-speed railways were born. The country’s Shinkansen ‘Bullet Train’ network has been developed over more than 50 years and covers all main trunk routes.

Docklands Light Railway Capacity Upgrade
Since opening in 1987, the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) has been central to the regeneration of east London. Now its significance is far greater than originally envisaged.

Amsterdam Metro / Light Rail Network by GVB
The largest single order for new-generation light rail vehicles was placed by the city of Amsterdam, Netherlands, as part of a major exercise to replace its antiquated fleet of 234 trams, which have become increasingly unreliable.

Guangzhou Metro
Guangzhou Metro is a light rail transit system in the city of Guanghzou (formerly known as Canton) in China. It is the fourth metro system to be introduced in Mainland China.

Light Rail System operated by Kolner-Verkehrs Betreibe (KVB)
Germany’s fourth most populous city, Köln (Cologne), 200km north of Frankfurt, is cut in two by the River Rhine.

Brussels Metro and Tram Network
Public transport in the 19 communes of the Belgian capital and some adjoining areas is operated by STIB/MIVB (Societ

Barcelona
Boosted by hosting the 1992 Olympic Games, Barcelona on Spain's north-east coast has continued to grow in reputation and

Ferronorte
Exports of agricultural products from the central western region of Brazil are seen as one of the country's most importa

Berlin U-Bahn Upgrading
The city-state of Berlin has a long-established underground network, with the first trains running in 1902. The system h

Buenos Aires Metro
Metro construction authority, Subterráneos de Buenos Aires SE (locally called Subte) is expanding the Buenos Aires metro system by adding three new lines, to bring 70% of the population within 400m of a metro station.

Luas Light Rail Network, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Dublin is by far the largest city in Ireland, with over a million inhabitants and forecast by the Irish Central Statistics Office to reach over two million in the metropolitan area by 2021.

Central Link Light Rail
Seattle's Central Link light rail opened on 18 July 2009, offering the city its first light rail. It provides an alternative mode of transport to the residents of the car-dominated city.

Nantes Light Railway
The French city of Nantes extended its light rail system by 50% in August 2000 to 27km. Nantes claims to be the city which invented public transport when, in 1826, it saw the first public hackney cab.

Rome Light Rail Metro and Tram System – Railway Technology
In 1994, a merger took place between Atac, the authority operating surface transport, and Cotral, the operator of metro,

Madrid Metro
Spain's capital Madrid, home to over three million people, has one of the most extensive metro systems anywhere in the w

Gatwick Express
Gatwick Express, the first dedicated city centre to airport rail link in the UK, has undergone a major service transformation with the introduction of a fleet of brand new trains at the end of 2000. However, February 2006 saw the UK Government announce its likely demise because it is using up valuable line capacity.

Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Line
The 1,318km Beijing-Shanghai high-speed line connects the cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin, travelling across the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu.

Nottingham Express Transit Light Rail Scheme, United Kingdom
Nottingham in England's East Midlands forms the core of the UK's seventh largest and third fastest-growing urban area.

Heathrow Express
The Heathrow Express is a high-speed service link offering the fastest journey time between Heathrow Airport and central London of 16 minutes and 21 minutes to Terminal 5.

Karlsruhe Light / Heavy Rail
Close to the French border in south-west Germany, Karlsruhe in Baden-Württemberg was the first European city to implement track-sharing for light and heavy rail vehicles.

Hong Kong West Rail
West Rail is a massive, HK$57.7 billion project to build a stand-alone 30.5km rail line between Nam Cheong in West Kowloon and Tuen Mun, to try and tap into the growth potential of the western towns and cities of Hong Kong.

Manila Light Rail Extension operated by Metro Transit Corporation, Philippines
Development of light rail lines in the Philippine capital of Manila is being carried out with the aim of reducing acute road congestion on the city's busiest corridors by the year 2015.

Croydon Tramlink
Croydon is part of the London conurbation, 15 miles south of the capital's centre. The most populous London borough with a population over 330,000, due to its proximity to central London and own concentration of commercial property, Croydon has heavy outward and inward commuter traffic.

London Underground Jubilee Line
Construction of the extension of London Underground's Jubilee Line from Green Park, through south London and Docklands to Stratford, proved a troublesome project.

Arlanda Express High Speed Rail Link operated by A-Train AB, Sweden
24 November 1999 saw the inauguration of the new, dedicated high-speed rail link between Stockholm Central railway station and the city's main airport, at Arlanda. The airport is at a competitive disadvantage over other major city air terminals, as it is 42km (26 miles) from the city centre.

Line 14 Automatic Metro, Paris
As well as being the principal component of its urban public transport system, the Metro is a long-standing symbol of Paris. The bulk of the basic system was completed before the outbreak of World War II, a densely packed network within the city-proper's boundaries.

High Speed Rail Operations
Italy was a European pioneer in high-speed rail and the original home of the 'Pendolino' family of tilting trains that h

Thalys
Thalys is a cross-border, high-speed passenger service that centres on the Brussels Midi station, linking the Belgian capital to Amsterdam, Paris and Cologne among others. The service is offered jointly by the Belgian, French, Dutch and German railways.

TGV South Korea High Speed Rail Route Operated by Korail
After two decades of steady progress, the start of the 21st century has witnessed major progress in South Korea in the development of a new, dedicated high-speed rail route to the progressive European design.

Bangkok Transit System Light Rail Route Extension
In an effort to provide a long-term solution to road congestion, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) initiated studies on three separate mass transit systems during the late 20th century.

Hong Kong East Rail
Hong Kong's heavy rail network is primarily arranged on two axes. Patronage of the East Rail route has soared almost six-fold since electrification in 1983. A fleet of 451 GEC-Alstom-built EMU vehicles share the same tracks as trains continuing to Shanghai and Beijing, as well as commercially vital freight, mainly container traffic.

Lantau Line and Airport Railway, Hong Kong
Massive growth in Hong Kong's importance as a trade and business centre brought about many problems for the island's existing infrastructure.

Potsdam Light Rail
Potsdam, in the former East Germany, is the first European city to adopt the standard new tram design by that country's

Alaris Tilting Trains
The Spanish Railways' (RENFE) summer 1999 timetable marked the introduction of the first tilting trains on the busy rout

Frankfurt-Köln
German Railways (Deutsche Bahn – DB) is now a major player in European high-speed rail travel with its Inter City

Kowloon-Canton Railway
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the neighbouring Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in southern China repres

Shanghai Metro
The economic boom in Shanghai, which has a population of around 19 million and growing (U.N. estimates 23.4 million by 2

Swiss Tilting Trains
SBB/CFF/FFS, the operator of Switzerland's rail network has implemented major improvements in the services it offers to

Quebec-Windsor Corridor
The testing of a prototype Jet Train on Canada's Quebec-Windsor corridor is part of a master plan to develop a railway route that serves 60% of the country's population, generates 85% of train operator VIA Rail's ridership and also provides 70% of its income.

Germany InterCity Express High Speed Rail Network operated by Deutsche Bahn
Although Deutsche Bundesbahn raised speeds and passenger standards with Class 103 hauled InterCity services from 1971, even with extensive track upgrading, 200km/h (124mph) would be the ceiling for reducing journey times.

Budapest Border Railway
The MAV (Hungarian Railways) line through the north of the country from Budapest to Hegyeshalom on the main corridor to Vienna has been extensively upgraded, with 86km (53 miles) of the route made suitable for 160km/h operation.

Bridge and Tunnel Project operated by Danish State Railways
The Great Belt Fixed Link rail and road project, which provides the first physical link between Denmark and Sweden, is amongst the largest ever undertaken in Scandinavia.

Oslo Airport (Gardermoen) Rail Link
Through a combination of overcrowding, a lack of expansion options and no rail links, all in the context of forecasted long-term rising demand, the Norwegian government decided to replace Oslo Fornebu as the capital's principal airport.

Line operated by Queensland Rail
Tilt train technology has been introduced to eastern Australia in June 2003 following completion of Queensland Rail's (QR) A$590 million project to upgrade its 1,681km main line between Brisbane and Cairns, cutting journey times by seven hours, three times a week.

Santiago Metro
The Chilean capital city of Santiago has a large, and still expanding, metro system, which, unusually, uses rubber-tyred vehicles.

Netherlands
Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Netherlands Railways - NS) runs trains over 2000km of electrified railway, and conversion of the

AVE
Having first sanctioned a 160km/h (100mph) maximum speed as recently as 1986, Spain moved quickly to get high-speed rail

Kuala Lumpur
Light Rail came to Kuala Lumpur in 1998 with the creation of the first section of an automatic mass transit system, runn

TGV France High Speed Railways operated by SNCF
From its first service in September 1981, the French train à grande vitesse (TGV) has set a pace in European high-s

Sydney Inner West Light Rail Construction and Extension, Australia
Light rail came to Sydney, Australia, in 1997 with the opening of its first modern tramway route from Central Station to
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25 May 2011Norbert Klapper to Lead Market Division Rail
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12 October 2010Voith Turbo Develops Rail Vehicle Heads for Passenger Trains
5 October 2010Voith Turbo Presents New Locomotive
5 October 2010New TLM from Voith Turbo Enables Undisturbed Data Transmission on the Train
26 September 2010Voith Supplies Couplers, Final Drives and Complete Front Ends for Chinese High-Speed Train
26 September 2010New Adapter Coupler Provides Almost 50% Weight Savings
23 September 2010First Voith-Engine for Rail Vehicles
23 September 2010Chinese Vehicle Manufacturer Delivers Railcars to Tunisian State Railways
21 July 2010Voith Turbo to Deliver 1,830 Couplers to Belgian State Railways
9 June 2010Voith Delivers Cooling Systems for Saudi Arabian Trains
27 October 2009Voith Delivers Turbo Transmissions for Taiwan Rolling Stock Corporation
27 October 2009ECO Components Set Standards in Hybrid-technology
23 July 2009Voith Expands Product Portfolio with Traction Inverter
23 July 2009First Monorail Trains in Bombay to Be Equipped With Voith Turbo Technology
23 July 2009New Driver Assistance System from Voith Turbo
23 July 2009Systems Solutions for Repowering and Upgrading of Vehicles
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23 July 2009DIWApack from Voith Turbo for Power Class Up To 320kW
30 March 2009Voith Turbo Unveils New Driver Assistance System
25 March 2009Voith Turbo Offers Systems for Repowering and Upgrading Vehicles
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25 March 2009Voith Turbo Scharfenberg Unveils Coupler Head One4
25 March 2009New Product Catalogue for Voith Universal Joint Shafts
17 June 2008Metro-Boom in Growth Market India
19 February 2008Systems Approach Successful in Ghana
19 February 2008Private Railway Relies on Powerful Voith Diesel Hydraulic Locomotives
14 December 2007Large-Capacity Carriages for Ile-de-France Commuter Trains
23 November 2007Central Workshop for Voith Locomotives in Europe
26 September 2007First-Generation High-Speed-Trains to be Modernised
17 August 200720 Front-End Modules for 10 Trains – More to Come
3 August 2007Restoring Speed and Reliability of ICE 3 Trains
3 August 2007250 Times Around the World – And Never a Standstill
2 July 2007Major Order for Voith Turbo From Spanish Manufacturer CAF
2 July 200760 Front-Ends for New High-Speed Trains
14 May 2007With Scharfenberg Couplers Through Mexico City
10 April 2007Underneath the Desert at 110 Miles per Hour
30 January 2007Handover of First of 240 DLoco Locomotives with Voith Final Drives
30 January 2007Lower Exhaust Emissions and Higher Speeds
16 October 2006Voith Turbo Scharfenberg: Safety First
18 September 2006Voith Turbo Becomes Systems Supplier Thanks to Maxima® and Gravita®
18 September 2006Safer Driving and Better Protection of the Environment with Voith-Powerpacks
18 September 2006Regional Railway in Bari Orders Pesa Vehicles
18 September 2006New Modular Coupler Head for All Coupler Types
18 September 2006From Istanbul to Ankara in Only Three Hours
18 September 2006Easy Track Change Between Spain and France
18 September 2006Longest S-Bahn Train Takes Commuters to Stockholm
18 September 2006Voith Turbo Receives Further Order From Rotem
8 September 2006Robust Drives for the Most Powerful Six-Axle Goods Locomotive
31 July 2006Service Contract Signed with Bombardier Transportation
13 July 2006Voith Turbo Lokomotivtechnik in Kiel
31 May 2006122 British High-Speed-Trains with Voith Turbo Cooling Systems
16 May 2006Major Overhaul of 636 Final Drives for Alstom Transport UK
13 May 2006Electronic Control of the Future: The Robust and Compact VTCsmart
13 May 2006Voith Turbo Safeset® Wins Major Contract from China for over 520 Safety Couplings
25 April 2006Further Developed Vossloh Central Cab Locomotives Will Receive Voith Transmissions
11 April 2006New Diesel Railcars for Moscow Rail
9 November 2005New Diesel Railcars for Irish Rail
9 November 2005Unique Transmission for Rail Vehicles
21 June 2005“Flirt” Whizzes Through the North-East of Hesse – in Bifurcated Traffic
3 June 2005Front Noses for New Chinese High Speed Trains
31 May 2005Smooth Coupling, Secure Contacts
27 April 2005SE-377-Final Drives to be Built at York (PA)
3 March 2005Voith Turbo Develops its Own Diesel-Hydraulic High-Performance Locomotive
11 February 2005360 Drives Plus Matching Know-How
1 February 2005Progressive Assembly Reduces Lead Times by One Third
26 November 2004Siemens Transportation Systems Places Major Order with Voith Turbo
17 March 200417 Locos for Algeria, another 13 for the Netherlands
10 December 2003Voith Turbo Scharfenberg Refurbishes 230 Couplers
10 December 2003Voith Transmissions and Couplers for Guangzhou Metro Lines
10 December 2003Control Competence Now Also for Complete
10 December 2003First of 180 Voith Powerpack Railcar Drive Packages to leave Voith Turbo
17 January 2003Fastest Voith Turbo Transmission for the Talgo high-speed train
19 November 2002Voith Turbo GmbH & Co KG
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