Rolls Royce wins large engine order for Chinese locomotives

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Rolls-Royce has been awarded a contract to supply engines for major Chinese locomotive manufacturer CNR Dalian, marking its entry into that country's market for freight locomotives for export.

The British engineer is to deliver 232 of its MTU Series 400 engines to CNR, the most powerful ones in that model series. They will be used in Transnet Freight Rail's new locomotives which the South African operator is in the process of upgrading.

Dr Michael Haidinger, CSO at Rolls-Royce Power Systems, added: "Winning this order signals our breakthrough into the market for Chinese freight locomotives, which are being exported in ever larger quantities."

It is one of the largest infrastructure programs in South Africa's history, Rolls Royce claimed. The total contract value was in the range of €100m.

The power plants are manufactured by Rolls' Power Systems division.

http://www.hl.co.uk/shares/stock-ma...s-into-market-for-chinese-locomotives-exports

I didn't realise that RR were interested in the diesel locomotive market. I don't suppose there's much opportunity for them in the UK market currently though.

 

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Rolls-Royce has been awarded a contract to supply engines for major Chinese locomotive manufacturer CNR Dalian, marking its entry into that country's market for freight locomotives for export.

The British engineer is to deliver 232 of its MTU Series 400 engines to CNR, the most powerful ones in that model series. They will be used in Transnet Freight Rail's new locomotives which the South African operator is in the process of upgrading.

Dr Michael Haidinger, CSO at Rolls-Royce Power Systems, added: "Winning this order signals our breakthrough into the market for Chinese freight locomotives, which are being exported in ever larger quantities."

It is one of the largest infrastructure programs in South Africa's history, Rolls Royce claimed. The total contract value was in the range of €100m.

The power plants are manufactured by Rolls' Power Systems division.


http://www.hl.co.uk/shares/stock-ma...s-into-market-for-chinese-locomotives-exports

I didn't realise that RR were interested in the diesel locomotive market. I don't suppose there's much opportunity for them in the UK market currently though.

Well MTU now owned by Rolls Royce as a supplier of large diesel engines, why wouldn't they want to supply engines for locomotives, isn't that what a HST power car is?

 

[Mikey C]

Yes, this is a rare example in recent years of a foreign manufacturer being taken over by a UK company.

 

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Yet RR has recently slashed some jobs in the aero engines division. Some even have said the MTU plant may be moved to England.

 

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I didn't realise that RR were interested in the diesel locomotive market. I don't suppose there's much opportunity for them in the UK market currently though.

It's the same factory in Friedrichshafen which made MTU engines.
The heritage goes back to Maybach (and therefore Hymeks, Warships and Westerns).
And Zeppelin and German tank engines, of course.
It's getting difficult to follow these brands as they keep changing owners (RR Motors now being part of BMW).
Good news for RR as a corporation, but not much work for the UK I think.

 

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Yet RR has recently slashed some jobs in the aero engines division. Some even have said the MTU plant may be moved to England.

Somehow I very much doubt that

 

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This order will not be the first Chinese-built export locomotives to have MTU prime movers, and neither will they be the first ones built since MTU's parent company Tognum was renamed to Rolls-Royce Power Systems a year ago.

I'm struggling to work out why this is newsworthy. Maybe it's the first contract for MTU locomotives prime movers since Rolls-Royce acquired the Daimler half-share of Rolls-Royce Power Systems last March?

SCT Logistics operates a fleet of ten SDA1 locomotives from CSR Ziyang (designated the CSR Class) with 3000kW of MTU power each on the Melbourne-Adelaide-Perth corridor. Freightliner Australia operate a couple of them (also the SDA1, but designated the BK Class by their owner Bradken Limited) on trains in New South Wales.