HAVING rolled-off the production line in Vienna at the end of July, the first of the completed nine-car trains being manufactured by Siemens Mobility for London Underground’s Piccadilly line has entered the first phases of dynamic testing.
Acceleration, braking, noise and vibration are the areas of performance which the initial runs on the test track at the Siemens Test and Validation Centre (at Wegberg-Wildenrath in Germany) have focused upon.
“Although we are still in the early