AD4üm-62

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Rheingold version with eight panorama windows in the original paintwork
Rheinpfeil version with four panorama windows in the subsequently introduced TEE paintwork
Panorama deck during use at the Mittelthurgau travel agency
Panorama deck during use in Sweden from 1999 to 2002
Access from the bar to the panorama compartment
Luxon panorama car from RailAdventure, 2019
Aussichtswagen the Rheingold -Garnitur the AKE railway tourism in Worms central station (2019)
Former Rheingold observation car in the apple arrow color scheme, exhibited in Cologne on April 16, 1978

AD4üm-62 (from 1966: ADümh 101 , from 1976: ADmh 101 ) was the generic name of the German Federal Railroad (DB) for a luxurious passenger coach , a lookout coach in the style of the American domecars . Only five of them were built.

history

For the long-distance express train (F-Zug) Rheingold , which only ran 1st class , the DB procured new, particularly comfortable cars from Wegmann in Kassel in 1962 . These included an AD4üm-62 type observation car for each of the two sets with which the pair of trains was operated. Another car was procured as an operating reserve. In 1963, two almost identical cars for the Rheinpfeil were put into operation, externally recognizable by the larger panorama windows (four instead of eight). They had the different generic designation AD4üm-63, and they originally had the address “Deutsche Bundesbahn” instead of the Rheingold lettering. In 1965, both trains were upgraded to Trans-Europ-Express (TEE) trains.

From 1971 the TEE trains in Germany were largely integrated into the newly created Intercity network and the scheduled use of the observation cars ended in 1973. In 1976 they were sold to the International Apple Arrow Organization (ILO), a tour operator. The ILO rebuilt the domes and reduced their height by 20 cm, which gave the vehicles a clearance profile that allowed them to be freely used throughout Europe. When the IAO went bankrupt , the Mittelthurgau travel agency bought the vehicles, upgraded them for use at 200 km / h and used them to market rail cruises under the TEE Panorama brand . They were then sold to the Veolia subsidiary Tågkompaniet , which operated them between Stockholm and Narvik from 1999 to 2002 . Then the cars were sold individually to different owners:

description

The vehicles were built in 1962 on the basis of the then UIC-X standard (today: UIC-Z) and, like the other cars in the series, had air conditioning , gold-coated window panes and magnetic rail brakes . The latter enabled - together with an exemption from the Federal Ministry of Transport - a maximum speed of 160 km / h instead of the then generally permitted 140 km / h. The German dome cars are 26.4 meters long, 2825 millimeters wide, and the roof height at the ends of the car is 4050 millimeters. The viewing platform was initially 4450 mm high, but since the renovation at Apfelpfeil, the height has been reduced to 4270 mm. They weigh 50 tons and run on type Minden-Deutz 36 bogies .

The cars have entry platforms with rotating folding doors at both ends . The middle section with the 8,412 millimeter long panorama deck is two-story , with five steps leading up and four down. The glazed large compartment on the upper floor offers a total of 22 seats in eight rows, including 18 seats in a 2 + 1 arrangement - which can be rotated in the respective direction of travel - and four non-rotating individual seats on the front sides of the viewing compartment. On the lower floor there is a luggage compartment , a mail compartment and an engine room. Between the viewing room and the entrance areas there is a bar with 15 seats on one side , eight of which are window seats in face-to-face arrangement at tables, a four-seater bench and three bar stools . This side of the car was usually coupled to the kitchen side of the dining car for easier management . On the other side there are two ordinary six-person compartments and another, smaller one that served as the train secretariat . There it was also possible to make hand-switched telephone calls over the A network using train mail .

The 10554 and 10555 cars acquired in 1963 for the Rheinpfeil have a modified window divider in the panorama deck. It was twice the distance, which meant that the number of walkways was smaller and the windows larger.

literature

  • to: From the Dom Car to the Luxon . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 5/2019, pp. 240–243.
  • Friedhelm Ernst: A lookout car for the DB . In: railway magazine . No. 3 , 2016, ISSN  0342-1902 , p. 38-40 .
  • Horst J. Obermayer and J. Deppmeyer: Passenger coaches; Deutsche Bundesbahn (=  German Railways ). Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1994, ISBN 3-89350-819-8 , p. 28 .

Web links

Commons : AD4üm-62  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Ernst: An observation car .
  2. a b DB Rheingold type express train passenger car on heinrich-hanke.de, accessed on May 11, 2019
  3. a b c d e f g h i an: Vom Dom Car zum Luxon , p. 240
  4. 5901: Luxon on a test drive . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 10/2016, p. 478.
  5. Luxon - Heavenly prospects for your trip . (Homepage).
  6. to: Vom Dom Car zum Luxon , p. 243.
  7. to: Vom Dom Car zum Luxon , p. 240; Lookout car on the AKE homepage .
  8. NN: "Rheingold": Railway wagon as information center at the freight station = blog of the city of Coburg about development, planning, building and living from May 12, 2017; accessed on May 10, 2019.
  9. SDA4üm / AD4üm-62 / ADümh 101 & AD4üm-63 / ADümh 101 on dbtrains.com, accessed on May 11, 2019