Case Study
Safety Cable For Munich’s Underground Railway
www.datwyler.com © 2006-2011 Datwyler. All rights reserved. 1 In 2001 Munich’s Underground Railway Department started the extensions of the lines 3 and 6. The aim of these exten- sions is to provide better connections to the Garching re- search site and the Moosach district. Most of the heavy duty cables for the new stretch of line 3 come from Datwyler. In the north of Munich a total of 100 kilometres of safety cable has already been laid. These are halogen-free cables and, in case of fire, are guaranteed to function as designed for at least 30 minutes. Datwyler Pyrofil safety cables are being installed in the new sections of the underground railway and are used, among other things, for emergency lighting, lifts and emergency power supply. An important requirement