Unmasked! – Presenting an abnormal state of wear, the part that no one wanted to name must be changed 100 times
She had a name. Jennifer will now have a face. In this photo shared by the Rennes metropolis, we can see what does the part that will have to be changed 100 times looks like? to restart the machine. On January 3, little Jennifer started to heat up and ended up breaking, causing an emergency stop of train number 56 of line B. Since then, the mysterious part that no one wants to name (it’s for that 20 Minutes has devoted itself to) serves as the main suspect in the breakdown hitting the new Rennes metro line.
Inaugurated in September 2022, the second line was the scene of a fire in November, which led to a month of downtime. After a few short weeks of recovery, traffic suddenly stopped on January 3 following further emergency braking. A normal procedure for securing the train due to a fault. But which one? Assailed with questions, the Siemens Mobility company ended up recognizing that a piece of metal “as big as a hand” was showing abnormal wear and that it was going to change them all “as a precaution”. Started in the workshops of a subcontractor in Limoges (Vienna), replacing the 100 Jennifers (there are four on each of the 25 trains) will take several weeks(…) Read more on 20minutes
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2024-02-20 14:00:53
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