ASEAG 7103-7113

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ASEAG 7103-7113
Numbering: 7103-7113
Number: 11
Manufacturer: Waggonfabrik Talbot , Waggonfabrik Rastatt (conversion)
Year of construction (s): 1951, reconstruction 1958/59
Retirement: 1976
Axis formula : Bo2 '
Gauge : 1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Length: 18.0 m
Width: 2.2 m
Trunnion Distance: 9.0 m
Bogie axle base: 3.0 m
Empty mass: 20.4 t
Top speed: 50 km / h
Performance indicator: 2 × 60 kW
Driving wheel diameter: 880 mm
Power system : 600 V DC
Power transmission: Overhead line
Number of traction motors: 2
Seats: 33
Standing room: 158

The tram cars with the numbers ASEAG 7103-7113 were articulated cars of the ASEAG , the operator of the Aachen tram . In 1958 and 1959, they were converted from first- aid vehicles by the Rastatt wagon factory , which had been delivered to ASEAG by the local manufacturer Talbot in 1951 . In Aachen they were used until 1973 and then sold to the Augsburg tram , where they were retired in 1976.

history

Aachen

In terms of route length, the ASEAG network was one of the largest German tram networks in the early 1950s. A large part of the routes consisted of single-track cross - country routes , which opened up the Aachen area and the communities of the Voreifel at the edge of the lane or on their own track , mostly only served every half-hour or hourly. Only in Aachen itself did ASEAG serve a largely double-track city network at frequent intervals. From 1955, the city of Aachen followed the trend of traffic planning at that time, with the conversion to a car-friendly city . According to the plans at the time, only a trunk network of three lines was to remain from the extensive tram network. It was also foreseeable that the closure of the remaining routes would take a few more years. Therefore, a partial renewal of the outdated vehicle fleet was necessary despite the recruitment plans. In particular, it was necessary to replace the older vehicles without magnetic rail brakes and with wooden boxes, as such vehicles could no longer be used according to the new BOStrab , which was valid from 1960 .

Line 12 between Eilendorf and the German border with the Netherlands at Vaals was one of the lines to be preserved initially . On this line, which is very popular due to the cheap shopping opportunities in Vaals and popularly referred to as the “butter tram” in Aachen, there was a noticeable increase in demand due to falling butter prices in the Netherlands at the end of the 1950s. The 1956 and 1957 procured Talbot - Großraumwagen ASEAG 1001-1011 were for the lines of Brander required network. ASEAG did not have sufficient financial means for further new vehicles. It therefore had eleven two-axle assembly or first aid vehicles that had been procured from Talbot in 1951 converted into articulated vehicles with attached trailers at the Rastatt wagon factory . Similar cars, albeit as a completely new construction, were ordered by the Freiburg im Breisgau tram with the “Sputnik” type in Rastatt .

From December 1959, in good time before the new BOStrab came into force, the nine articulated trains that had been delivered up to then were used on Line 12. Previously, the ASEAG in Eilendorf had a Gleisdreieck built to the first than in Aachen way vehicle to use running Umbauwagen at all. In Vaals there had been a turning loop since 1954 , after the siding , which was previously used for sweeping and which was partly on Dutch soil, could no longer be used since the Second World War . The overland line 22 to Eschweiler , which previously ran parallel to 12 , was limited to the section from Eilendorf to Eschweiler.

At the beginning of 1960 the last two converted vehicles came from Rastatt, so there was also a sufficient reserve for line 12. All eleven vehicles drove exclusively on line 12 for their entire time in Aachen, since only there were opportunities to turn at both ends of the line. The vehicles were stationed in the Aachen depot, Wagenhalle Oberstrasse. In contrast to the other ASEAG vehicles, which - as was common with most German trams until the 1970s - were painted beige-ivory, the articulated vehicles were given a striking red color. This should enable passengers to quickly and reliably differentiate between the trunk of line 5/15/25/35 and line 12. In 1965 car 7106 was severely damaged by fire and was retired. In order to have a sufficient reserve, ASEAG put together a reserve train from one of its two body cars built in 1948 and a matching sidecar taken over from the Rheydt tram . To ensure a uniform appearance, both vehicles were given the red color typical of articulated vehicles. From around 1969, the remaining tram vehicles of ASEAG were given the uniform red color from that point on.

In September 1972, the Aachen city council finally decided to discontinue the tram, which at that time only consisted of lines 5/15 between Brand and Elisenbrunnen or Goethestrasse and line 12. The routes to Goethestrasse and Eilendorf were discontinued on March 11, 1973 and line 15 took over the western branch of line 12 to Vaals. The articulated trolleys 7103–7113 were no longer used and they were parked.

augsburg

At that time, Augsburg was still using older, labor-intensive two-axle trains for work and school traffic , which were only approved for conductors. As a replacement, Stadtwerke Augsburg therefore bought the ten remaining cars 7103–7105 and 7107–7113 in 1972. They were added to the inventory under the new numbers 401 to 410 and designated there as GT4. The vehicles arrived in Augsburg by train in April 1973 and, after being slightly modified, went into operation in May 1973. They were used exclusively as e-cars and proved to be unsuitable for the Augsburg network. One of the reasons for this was that the crank direction of the drive switch was exactly opposite to that of the Augsburg vehicles. Car 409 (formerly 7103) therefore had a serious traffic accident in 1974 - the driver turned the crank in the wrong direction in a dangerous situation and therefore accelerated instead of braking - and withdrew from the fleet at the beginning of 1976. Car 405 (formerly 7112) had a broken axle and was therefore retired and scrapped in May 1976. The remainder were retired after delivery of twelve new eight-axle Mannheim models in 1976 and scrapped between 1977 and 1978. Only car 403 (formerly 7104) remained. Efforts from Aachen to buy back this car are due to the refusal of the association “Friends of Augsburger Straßenbahn e. V. ”failed, although Stadtwerke Augsburg had already agreed with ASEAG on the buyback. The non-drivable car is housed in the Lechhausen car hall, an operational refurbishment is planned.

technology

Line 12 was given sweeping options so that one-way vehicles could be used. But it still had longer single-track sections with platforms on both sides. Therefore the articulated trolleys 7103–7113 received only one driver's cab as one-way vehicles, but had doors on both sides. At the stern there was an emergency drive switch for the transfer trips on the Eilendorfer Gleisdreieck. In Augsburg the doors on the left were permanently locked because they were not needed there.

The superstructure cars delivered in 1951 were built with car bodies of the association type on chassis, which ASEAG built in-house. They had a rigid two-axle chassis with leaf springs . In Rastatt, one of the two railcar platforms was separated and replaced by a saddled trailer with a bogie. The bogie received rubber springs , and all of the vehicle's wheelsets were also rubber-sprung. Analogous to the Talbot open-plan cars, the articulated cars were equipped with a fixed conductor seat, making the vehicle suitable for passenger flow. In 1969, ASEAG introduced one-man operation, although conductors should continue to sell tickets in heavy traffic . The Schaffnerplatz, which was previously housed at the rear, was therefore moved to the front in railcars 7103–7113 and installed behind the driver's cab. The passenger flow now ran from front to back.

Until 1969, the six electro-pneumatically controlled doors were operated by the conductor, then by the driver. The 33 seats were arranged in a compartment in the front section, in rows in the rear section and were given upholstered artificial leather seats.

literature

  • Albrecht Sappel: To Königsplatz and back! 100 years of urban traffic in Augsburg . Alba, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-87094-325-4 .
  • Herbert Waßner: 100 years of Augsburg local transport vehicles in the picture . FdAS, Augsburg 1998.
  • Friends of the Augsburger Tram (Ed.): Review of 20 years of “Friends of the Augsburger Tram” . 2009.
  • Ottmar Krettek, Peter Herberholz: Trams in the Aachen tri-border region. Alba Verlag, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-87094-323-8
  • Reiner Bimmermann: Aachen tram. Volume 1: History. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 1999, ISBN 3-89494-116-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eckehard Frenz: The tram shutdown in the Federal Republic of Germany . In: Reinhart Köstlin, Hellmut Wollmann: Renaissance of the tram . Birkhäuser, Basel 1987, ISBN 3-7643-1729-9 , pp. 47–87, here p. 57
  2. ↑ Reiner Bimmermann: Aachener streetcar. Volume 1: History. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 1999, ISBN 3-89494-116-2 , p. 174
  3. ↑ Reiner Bimmermann: Aachener streetcar. Volume 1: History. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 1999, ISBN 3-89494-116-2 , p. 159 f.
  4. ↑ Reiner Bimmermann: Aachener streetcar. Volume 1: History. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 1999, ISBN 3-89494-116-2 , p. 209
  5. ↑ Reiner Bimmermann: Aachener streetcar. Volume 1: History. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 1999, ISBN 3-89494-116-2 , p. 215
  6. ↑ Dieter Höltge, Michael Kochems: Tram and light rail in Germany. Volume 10: Bavaria. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-88255-391-8 , p. 64
  7. ↑ Albrecht Sappel: To Königsplatz and back! 100 years of urban traffic in Augsburg . Alba, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-87094-325-4 , pp. 45 .
  8. ^ Friends of the Augsburger Tram e. V .: Vehicles of the Augsburg tram - the series 401I to 410I (ex Aachen) ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 4, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fdas.de
  9. ↑ Vehicle fleet list Augsburg. tram-info.de:,; Retrieved January 3, 2015
  10. ^ Friends of the Augsburg tram
  11. ↑ tram-augsburg.com: Altwagen , accessed on January 3, 2015
  12. ^ Ottmar Krettek, Peter Herberholz: Trams in the Aachen triangle. Alba Verlag, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-87094-323-8 , p. 70
  13. ↑ Reiner Bimmermann: Aachener streetcar. Volume 1: History. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 1999, ISBN 3-89494-116-2 , p. 207