Cheers again!

As I promised this morning, I was able to snap a few photos of NGT10 1002 presently on display at the Exhibition Centre – with us also taking the opportunity of actually visiting the House and Garden Fair also as we wanted to collect some ideas for our garden as well.

So, this…

…is what the NGT10 looks like sans test mule camouflage.

The asymmetric design principle is something of a Solaris trademark, as some of you might already be aware of if you are familiar with the contemporary public transport scene. The NGT10 in particular was custom designed by IFS Design UG, who coincidentally had also provided the exterior styling for our earlier NGT12, or the Flexity Berlin series for the Berlin tram system, for example.

With Solaris being a Polish producer, 54.5% of all components are actually provided by German suppliers, and 9.4% by Czech and 5.4% by Austrian producers. 29% are originally Polish.

Like the NGT6, NGT8 and NGT12, the NGT10 again has daytime running lights. Much of the external and interior lighting is, in fact, provided by LED assemblies.

This is the Jacobs bogie underneath the central articulation joint…

…while the motor bogies are traditional in design as it was determined that regular bogies are the better choice for our network's parameters.

This photo is intended to again highlight the LED signalling stripes (green when unlocked, red when being locked, and off while the vehicle is moving or if the door has been deactivated – as it has been in this instance) running top to bottom on each door blade.

I expect this promotional lettering will appear at least on part of the NGT10s once they enter revenue service!

The monitoring camera above Door 6.

And a better look at the instrument panel in its entirety, which with so many interested colleagues I wasn't quite able to get on Friday! The device in the rightmost part of the panel is the Trapeze ITT onboard ITCS unit, also operated by way of a touch screen. Left to to right, the buttons below are, top row: turn signals; hazard lights; headlight flasher/high beam; manual point control (left, straight [only used for Consecutive Point arrays] and right); and, bottom row: door release, door locking, central door opening; forced door closing; hard button for opening Door 1 individually.

The curved handle below the rightmost section again contains our usual array of bell trigger (facing the driver's seat), auxiliary deadman switch, track brake and sanding triggers.

There also is a suitably large interior viewing mirror next to the exterior camera screen. Both will, as we were told on Friday, be relocated a bit further to the front and to the window pillar respectively to gain some additional headroom when standing.

With an overall length of 37.63 m and width of 2.3 m, the duration power output will be 680 kW as on the (slightly larger and heavier) NGT12, most likely making the NGT10 a tad more agile still as like on the former, eight wheelsets are powered. Short-time peak power output will even be 920 kW. It will accommodate 220 passengers as a standard load, 75 of which seated.

Thanks for reading, once again!