FS Class E.428

EN Texto en inglés Aún no hay artículo en tu idioma: extracto en inglés.

The FS E.428 was a class of Italian railways electric locomotives. They were introduced in the course of the 1930s, for fast services on the Florence–Rome railway, being decommissioned in the 1980s. When in the 1930s, in the course of the Fascist government's program of railways development, a new locomotive was needed to provide a fast service on the newly electrified Milan-Rome mainline at 3,000 V DC. This was also permitted by the introduction of new metallic passenger cars, capable of relative higher speeds. The requirement was shipped to the FS design team of Ing. Giuseppe Bianchi at Florence. The new locomotive was impressive for the times: huge, heavy, powerful and fast. They were 4 metres (13 ft 1+1⁄2 in) longer than the E.626, the first Italian DC electric locomotives, and weighed 10–20 t (9.8–19.7 long tons; 11–22 short tons) more. The original requirement asked for the notable service speed of 150 km/h (93 mph), but this was later reduced to 130 km/h (81 mph). The E.428 was to be built in conjunction with a lighter version, the E.326, but those proved unsuccessful and were limited to lower speeds.