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Project TRN materializes in Périgueux
Project TRN passed from the paperboards of GL to the ground. In Périgueux, one works to present in February 2000 three prototypes to the customers.

Cars of the Seventies entirely boned in a hangar. Rooms as empty as of the apartments in the course of restoration. Cables running along naked walls. There is evil to imagine that one is in the presence of the prototypes of the future National Express trains.
Three of the five cars «proto»envisaged (the two others are carried out with the EIMM of Romilly) are being born with the Industrial plant from Périgord.
They will be tested in February 2000 near the customers.
While waiting, there is still work, and delay was even taken. Certain parts, manufactured especially, only have been just delivered, and their installation started recently. At two months of the presentation of the prototypes to general public, one is still to prepare the fixing of the seats. Previously, it is necessary to attach estrades to the ground along the walls to delimit a corridor in hook. An easy way of cabinet MBD Design to break the monotony of the central alley. Then, there will be the ceiling, which soon will receive its final coating, all in broken lines to break with the curves of the Coral.
A test with truths seats

In one of the three cars, one will take as a starting point lkea and will leave the choice to the customer. The room will be shared into two.
«On a side, decoration MBD with its ton lights and a space smokers equipped with three counters out of wooden. Other, a " alternative design " with the colors and very different forms proposed by another cabinet», explains Jean-Jacques Launes, coordinator of the project in Périgueux. For the first time, it is the customer who will carry the final decision. «One could have made models, easier to carry out one preferred to build prototypes so that the customers are in real situation during tests, with truths seats, true gates and true toilets», underlines Etienne Gautier, head of the pole projects and coordination of the establishment.
In Périgueux, thanks to the Express trains «project of tomorrow», while making of the nine with old man, one prepares also the future.

Hardware TRN any comfort

The objective of project TRN, one five years duration (see information N°94), is to prepare the traditional train of tomorrow by giving to the customers new services and a better comfort. But that requires a hardware completely renovated. Thus, the Corail cars of day will know a particular refitting.
The hardware of night is not forgotten.
Voitures-couchettes of the future will resemble voiture+lits with cabins with two or three beds. But more, it is the multi-service car with a room of greeting, spaces handicapped, compartments families and slot-machines.
The first circulations are planned for 2002.

Testimony

Jean-Jacques Launes, coordinator of the project in Périgueux

For this project, one called upon the voluntariate of the agents. They have all answered present, because they included/understood the importance of the stake well. One saw one interesting moment on the level human resources. The agents present on the prototypes show imagination beyond their professional competence, they know that they create something whose they will see the result.

Serge Delhoste, skilled worker «interior installation of the cars»

I went voluntary since the beginning of the construction of the models. It was a new work which came out me of the daily routine. I was going to make things which I did not have
the practice to make in my station. Work on the project depends on the arrivals of the controlled parts, while waiting, I turn over in my team of origin. All arrives in this moment, it is the race, but one will arrive there.

Vincent Peypoudat, Christian Bunle and Christophe Bain, ironmongers

All the ironmongers were voluntary for this project.
The workload was significant. It was necessary to remake bay openings on the old cases of bar Corail. One also had to modify the ends of certain models to be able to adapt to it the new type of tight intercommunication which one will propose with GL. One must work quickly and well, the EMR of Bordeaux helped us well

Bruno Guezennec infos N°101, 01-2000