Siemens announced that the cornerstone was laid in Dortmund-Eving (Germany) for the service and maintenance depot being built for the Rhine-Ruhr-Express (RRX) trains. Test operations at the depot are scheduled to begin in mid-2018. In the future, all 82 RRX trains will be serviced and maintained there for a period of 32 years.
The depot complex will include a six-track maintenance building, a warehouse, administration and social building, an outdoor cleaning facility for the trains, an underfloor lathe for overhauling wheelsets, and a diagnostics system for wheelsets. Around 5.5 kilometers of track will be laid on the property, including the maintenance building. The depot will be located on the site of the former Dortmund-Eving marshaling yard and connected at its north and south end with the main line to the Dortmund railway station, along the Lünen/Münster route.
The depot will be fully oriented to the unique digitalized train service and maintenance provided by Siemens: the trains are closely monitored in real-time and the delivered data is analyzed in a central diagnostics system at the Siemens Mobility Data Services Center (MDS) in Munich-Allach, Germany. On the basis of these analyses, specialists at the MDS calculate failure predictions and recommend acute or scheduled maintenance to the service team in the new depot.
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