Portal:Trains/Selected article/Week 38, 2010

T1000 and T1300 were two rapid transit train classes used on Oslo Metro in Oslo, Norway. The 197 cars were built by Strømmens Verksted, Norsk Elektrisk & Brown Boveri and AEG between 1960 and 1981. They were the first metro trains used in Oslo, and have remained in use until they started being replaced by MX3000 in 2007. Each car is equipped with a driver's cab at one or both ends and four motors, each with 98 kW. The cars are 17 m long, 3.2 m wide and 3.65 m tall. The trains use 750 V current, and are capable of 70 km/h. Signaling is provides through automatic train protection. In 1960, two less powerful T single-car units were built, designed to be prototypes used on the Oslo Tramway. After a one-year trial, they were put into scheduled traffic to the Kolsås Line, where they remained in regular service until 1983. The production series is somewhat different in design and performance. T1000 is both used to refer to the class as a whole, or the first 162 cars, that are only equipped with third rail shoes. They have four slight variations, which have been given the designations T1–T4. The T1300 is a series of 33 new and 16 rebuilt T4 trains equipped with pantographs to allow them to operate on the western part of the network, prior to it being upgraded to metro. The newer units were designated T5 and T6, while the rebuilt units were designated T7 and T8.