New rail monitoring vehicle platform by Končar in Croatia is to be equipped with tsa motors

The Croatian state-owned railway infrastructure operator HŽ Infrastruktura d.o.o. has selected Končar Electric Vehicles Inc. to deliver a new rail monitoring car for the analysis of railway tracks in Croatia. Končar Electric Vehicles Inc. awarded Traktionssysteme Austria (TSA) in 2021 for the delivery of the electrical traction motors for the new designed rail measuring vehicle.

The vehicle is 25m long, weighs 72 tons and can reach a maximum speed of 140km/h. The drive system consists of a diesel power-pack, a traction converter and two electrical traction motors mounted in one bogie.

The 300kW (S1) self-ventilated asynchronous traction motors are going to be produced and delivered in 2022. The self-propelled diagnostic vehicle is designed for measuring purposes and can be used on electrified and non-electrified railway tracks. The vehicle is equipped with a set of measurement and inspection systems designed for the monitoring of railway infrastructure.