Scared locomotive
A fear locomotive or fear locomotive is a locomotive or, in general, a railroad vehicle that is made available in railway operations in order to be able to clear stretches of broken trains .
The provision can also take place in that the locomotive is carried on the train. The fearful locomotive is made available if, when planning journeys, one expects that a train may stall because it is e.g. B. is test drives. For example, the InterCityExperimental , which set a speed record for wheel / rail vehicles on a test drive on November 26, 1985 between Gütersloh and Hamm with 317 km / h, was preceded by a scared locomotive.
Even with trains that consist of historical vehicles (locomotives), a fearful locomotive is occasionally provided or carried on the train (e.g. at the end of the train).
Furthermore, nuclear waste shipments in Germany are usually followed by several fearful locomotives.
On the Central Australian Railway , fearful locomotives are carried along in regular operation, as large parts of the less than 3000 km long route are too remote for a quick intervention.
Individual evidence
- ↑ With the fear engine over Berg , Frankfurter Rundschau, January 6, 2011, accessed on January 14, 2014
- ^ Jürgen Hörstel, Marcus Niedt: ICE - New trains for new routes . Orell Füssli Verlag, Zurich and Wiesbaden 1991, ISBN 3-280-01994-X , pp. 95-108.