DB class 215
| DB class 215 | |
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 215 034 in the Cologne-Deutzerfeld depot
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| Numbering: | 215 001-150 215 901-914 |
| Number: | 150 |
| Manufacturer: | Krupp , Henschel , Krauss-Maffei , MaK |
| Year of construction (s): | 1968ff |
| Retirement: | 2008 |
| Axis formula : | B'B ' |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | 16,400 mm |
| Height: | 4,275 mm |
| Width: | 3,135 mm |
| Trunnion Distance: | 8,600 mm |
| Bogie axle base: | 2,800 mm |
| Total wheelbase: | 11,400 mm |
| Service mass: | 79 t |
| Top speed: | 130 km / h (215 001–004) 140 km / h (series) |
| Installed capacity: | 1900 PS (1,397 kW) * and 2500 PS (1,840 kW) |
| Starting tractive effort: | 235.2 kN |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 1,000 mm |
| Motor type: | MTU 12V 956 TB; MTU 16V 652 TB * |
| Motor type: | V12-cylinder diesel or V16-cylinder diesel |
| Rated speed: | 1500 rpm |
| Power transmission: | hydraulic |
| Tank capacity: | 3,050 l (fuel) 2,850 l (water) 690 l (heating oil) 320 kg (sand) |
| * 215 011-070; 091-150 | |
The 215 series was a diesel locomotive - series of the German Federal Railroad and later the Deutsche Bahn AG for the medium-duty travel - and freight service on main routes , as well as on secondary roads .
The 225 series was created as a result of the takeover of locomotives by DB Cargo .
history
The locomotives of the 215 series were purchased at short notice as a variant of the V160 family for passenger and freight transport and, in contrast to other types of the V-160 family - just like the BR 216 / V160 - were equipped with heating steam generators. It was planned in the old series scheme as V 163. These locomotives should later be converted into the 218 series . In addition, it already received the locomotive body, which was 400 millimeters longer, from other series that had previously only been available as a prototype . The main reason for the construction of the 215 series was that the 218 series had not yet reached series production, but the Federal Railroad wanted to replace the remaining steam locomotives that were still in existence . Between 1968 and 1970 a total of 150 locomotives were built.
The ten pre-series locomotives were followed by a series of 140 locomotives, with the exception of the 215 071 to 093 all of them received a 16-cylinder engine set to an output of 1900 hp , which was similar to the engine of the 216 series. 215 071 to 093, like the pre-production locomotives, carried the 12-cylinder MA 12 V 956 TB10 engine from MAN, later MTU .
In the mid-1980s, the machines with 12-cylinder V-engines were fitted with exhaust ducts on the roof. They caused an acceleration and redirection of the exhaust gases, so that in air-conditioned passenger coaches, which had the air intake openings on the roof, nuisance to the passengers through exhaust gases or exhaust smells was avoided. The scoops also had other effects: the exhaust gases, which could be up to 280 ° C, were routed in a V-shape past the overhead line so that the overhead line was not sooty and did not expand too much. In addition, the risk of embankment fires from sinking, hot soot particles has been reduced. Furthermore, the machines were retrofitted with a door locking system and brake slack adjuster for automatic readjustment of the brake piston stroke.
From 2000 the locomotives were increasingly withdrawn. From 2001 to 2003, 68 locomotives were rebuilt, they were given the new class designation 225 .
technology
The locomotive has a diesel-hydraulic drive . This takes place via cardan shafts from the centrally arranged gearbox to the two two-axle bogies . Both axles and thus all axles are driven via final drives. A reversing gear enables the direction change.
The ten pre-series machines were delivered by Krupp in 1968 and 1969 with diesel engines of the type MA 12 V 956 TB10 (2500 HP) from MAN. The machines 215 011 to 215 070 and 215 094 to 215 150 were then equipped with the weaker but more reliable MTU MB 16 V 652 TB (1900 hp) from the 216 series, while the 215 071 to 215 093 again received the more powerful engine, which has since been referred to as MTU MA 12 V 956 TB 10.
The steam heating device Vapor-Heating OK4616 installed for the passenger train service could also preheat the machine system and keep it warm. The intended conversion of the machines into the series 218, which was chosen as a series solution, was not carried out because of the high costs. The only exception here is 215 112, which was rebuilt as 218 399 after an accident. The locomotives 215 030 to 032 received a diesel-electric heating unit in 1974. These were not transferred to row 218. An auxiliary diesel engine could work as an air compressor when the locomotive was switched off and recharge the batteries, so they did not have to be near an external power connection.
Calls
The 215 series was used for all types of trains . The focus was on the Eifelbahn , the Lower Rhine and Baden-Württemberg down to the Lake Constance area. Star performance in the 1980s was the D 216/217 "Austria-Express" ( Klagenfurt - ( Graz - Krefeld -) Amsterdam ) between Krefeld Hbf and Arnhem / Netherlands , which was hauled by the electrically heated locomotives of this series (030 to 032) .
The last scheduled services of the 215 series were carried out by DB Regio Hessen until April 2003 . Unscheduled, they were then only used at DB Regionalbahn Rheinland , but were then sold to DB AutoZug GmbH in June of the same year .
The 225 series was created through the sale of locomotives from DB Regio to what was then DB Cargo . The steam heating was expanded and replaced by a preheating and warming device. In order to equalize the service weight, ballast weights were also installed. This mostly happened as part of a general inspection . 9 vehicles are currently in use at EfW.
particularities
In the course of their history, some locomotives were also given special equipment at times, for example the locomotives with the serial numbers 023 to 029 were given a Belgian Indusi for use by the SNCB . The locomotives 030 to 032 were experimentally equipped with an electric heater (the steam heater was removed), which was powered by an 8V 331 TC 10 heating diesel . This engine had an output of 520 kW at 2100 rpm. The power was transmitted directly to the heating generator, so, unlike the 217 series , this power could not be used for the drive via the fluid transmission. In the locomotives now known as 225 030 to 032, the heating diesels have meanwhile been removed and replaced by ballast weights. Since the machines are only used in freight transport, the electric heating was dispensable. In the meantime 225 030 and 032 have been sold to the Potsdam Railway Company and 225 031 to EfW.
Conversion variant 215.9
In the summer of 2003, DB AutoZug bought a total of 18 locomotives from DB Regio, had 14 of them converted analogous to the 225 series and designated them as the 215.9 series. The other four locomotives served as spare parts donors. The originally planned change to the 225.9 series was dispensed with because the 215 series had already been removed from the vehicle fleet and the number was available for new assignment.
The boiler and the feed water tank required for steam heating were removed. Instead, a preheater and a ballast weight were installed. The engines stayed in the vehicles . The tank was rebuilt and got a capacity of 2700 liters of diesel fuel and 650 liters of heating oil. The locomotives were equipped for the digital train radio GSM-R and received new bogies with automatic brake slack adjusters .
The area of application of the 215.9 series was the car trains called SyltShuttle between Niebüll and Westerland . The use of this series ended in 2008. In March 2008, the locomotives were postponed from being repaired and finally parked in September. The last operational locomotive, 215 901, completed its last run on September 11 and 12, 2008. It pulled a locomotive train consisting of four other locomotives of the 215.9 series from Westerland to Chemnitz . The locomotives were parked on the premises of the local DB plant until they were recycled. In October 2017, the locomotives (908 and 911-914) were transferred to a recycler in Espenhain and scrapped there. The locomotives (903 and 905) were transferred to the company "Railsystems" from Gotha in the same month for the removal of spare parts. From there, the locomotives were also sold to a recycler and scrapped. The remaining locomotives (901, 902, 904, 906, 907, 909 and 910) were transferred from the Chemnitz standstill management to the new Leipzig-Engelsdorf standstill management in February 2019 and are waiting there for sale (as of July 2020).
Whereabouts
Numerous 215 are still in use after being converted to the 225 series (as of 2012). 225 086 was sold in 2011 to Rheinische Eisenbahn GmbH, a subsidiary of Eifelbahn Verkehrsgesellschaft (EVG), and restored to its original delivery condition in 2012. It is labeled as 215 086 in use.
215 049 is in the DB Museum Koblenz, 215 122 in the Crailsheim depot. Nine locomotives are in use at EfW. These are vehicles of the BR 225, but are referred to there as 215. 215 001 is set at the International Society for Rail Traffic (IGE).
Stock of locomotives of the class 215/225 at private railways (as of July 2020):
| Vehicle number
(92 80 1xxx xxx-x) |
Operator designation | operator | comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 225 001-7 | 215 001-9 | IPI | old red, operational |
| 225 002-5 | 225 002-5 | EGP | EGP painting, operational |
| 225 004-1 | 215 004-3 | WRSCH | ocean blue / beige, locomotive was sold by AVG to WRS Germany at the end of July 2020 to pull freight trains on the Hunsrückquerbahn , operational |
| 225 005-8 | 225 005-8 | Cure | Sold to Kurpfalzbahn in 2018, not operational |
| 225 006-6 | 225 006-6 | EGP | EGP painting, operational |
| 225 008-2 | 225 008-2 | SDEHN | Sold to Lokservice Sascha Dehn in 2016, not operational |
| 225 009-0 | 225 009-0 | EFW | Sold to EfW in 2018, not operational |
| 225 011-6 | 225 011-6 | SDEHN | Sold to Lokservice Sascha Dehn in 2016, not operational |
| 225 015-7 | BBL 19 | BBL | BBL paintwork, operational |
| 225 017-3 | 215 017-5 | EFW | old red, operational |
| 225 018-1 | 215 018-3 | EFW | old red, operational |
| 225 020-7 | 225 020-7 | EFW | sold to EfW, not operational |
| 225 021-5 | 215 021-7 | EFW | old red, operational |
| 225 023-1 | 215 023-3 | EFW | old red, operational |
| 225 024-9 | 215 024-1 | EFW | old red, operational |
| 225 025-6 | 215 025-8 | EFW | old red, operational |
| 225 027-2 | 215 027-4 | EFW | old red, operational |
| 225 028-0 | 215 028-2 | EFW | old red, operational |
| 225 030-6 | 225 030-6 | EGP | EGP painting, operational |
| 225 031-4 | 225 031-4 | EFW | Sold to EfW in 2018, not operational |
| 225 032-2 | 225 032-2 | EGP | Sold to EGP in 2017, not operational |
| 225 071-0 | BBL 24 | BBL | NBE painting, canceled due to expiry of the deadline |
| 225 073-6 | 225 073-6 | BMB | Sold by AIXrail to BM-Bahndienste in 2020, operational |
| 225 079-3 | 225 079-3 | LWC | Lappwaldbahn Cargo, operational |
| 225 082-7 | 215 082-9 | FULL | Aggerbahn Andreas Voll, ocean blue / beige, operational |
| 225 086-8 | 215 086-0 | EVG | Rhenish Railway, old red, operational |
| 182 504-0
UIC: (99 87 9182 504-0) (France) (formerly DBAG 215 089-4) |
V215 no.182 504 | TSO | 1996 sold to Elisabeth Layritz GmbH from Penzberg. There it was converted for use in France
and in 2004 sold to the French track construction company "Travaux Du Sud Ouest". As TSO operates worldwide, the locomotive was used in Mexico in 2017. The locomotive is now back in France |
| 225 094-2 | 225 094-2 | RCCDE | After the takeover of EBM Cargo by Rail Cargo Carrier Germany in action for RCCDE, operational |
| 225 099-1 | BBL 17 | BBL | BBL paintwork, operational |
| 225 100-7 | BBL 16 | BBL | BBL paintwork, operational |
| 225 101-5 | 225 101-5 | JH | Joseph Hubert Bauunternehmung GmbH, operational |
| 218 399-4 (ex 215 112-4) | 218 399-4 | ELBA | 215 112 was rebuilt after an accident on November 27, 1973 near Horb as 218 399. At the end of 2014, the locomotive was made by DB Systemtechnik
sold to ELBA Logistik GmbH. |
| 225 117-1 | 225 117-1 | EFW | Sold to EfW in 2018, not operational |
| 225 133-8 | 225 133-8 | Cure | operational |
| 225 135-3 | 215 135-5 | LUW | 2003 sold to Laeger & Wöstendörfer GmbH. Renaming to class 225 at Deutsche Bahn AG only in book form.
Inoperable |
Individual evidence
- ^ Eisenbahn-Kurier (Ed.): Page no longer available , search in web archives: Series 225 for SyltShuttle. In: Newsarchiv 2003. EK-Verlag, Freiburg June 30, 2003. Accessed October 20, 2008.
- ↑ a b Eisenbahn-Kurier (Ed.): Page no longer available , search in web archives: First 215.9 delivered. In: Newsarchiv 2003. EK-Verlag, Freiburg October 1, 2003. Accessed October 20, 2008.
- ^ The V 160: Statistics overview BR 215 901 to 215 914 ( Memento from January 31, 2010 in the web archive archive.today ) . Retrieved October 20, 2008.
- ↑ Arbeitsgemeinschaft Drehscheibe e. V. (Ed.): Turntable . Issue 211 November 2008. Cologne October 4, 2008, ISSN 0934-2230 , pp. 32, 37.
- ↑ inselbahn.de - Sylt shuttle locomotives. Retrieved July 25, 2020 .
- ↑ loks-aus-kiel.de - Deutsche Bundesbahn - 215. Retrieved on July 25, 2020 .
- ↑ www.revisionsdaten.de - The ONLINE vehicle database on the Internet. Retrieved July 25, 2020 .
- ↑ loks-aus-kiel.de - Portrait MaK 2000094. Retrieved on July 25, 2020 .
