BLE T2
| BLE T 2 DR 137 238a |
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| Numbering: |
BLE T 2 DR 137 238a |
| Number: | 1 |
| Manufacturer: | Main workshop of the BLE |
| Year of construction (s): | 1933 |
| Retirement: | 1945 |
| Axis formula : | A1A |
| Genre : | Pw3iVT-16/34 |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | 11,900 mm |
| Height: | 3,900 mm (to the top of the roof) |
| Width: | 3,235 mm |
| Total wheelbase: | 7,000 mm |
| Service mass: | empty: 27,000 kg occupied: 30,000 kg |
| Top speed: | 60 km / h |
| Installed capacity: | 130 kW (175 hp) |
| Wheel diameter: | 950 mm |
| Motor type: | MAN W6V 17.5 / 22 |
| Motor type: | Six cylinder four-stroke diesel engine |
| Rated speed: | 925 / min |
| Power transmission: | diesel-electric |
| Train brake: | Compressed air brake type Knorr |
| Train control : | Handbrake |
| Floor height: | 1,270 mm |
The BLE T 2 was an engine - railcars of Brunswick State Railway (BLE). It was made from a three-axle passenger car from the Dessauer Waggonfabrik and originally operated together with two control cars . With the nationalization of the Braunschweigische Landeseisenbahn in 1938, the railcar with a control car was taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn as 137 238 a / b and continued to be operated. Both vehicles came to the Deutsche Reichsbahn in the GDR after 1945 and were soon retired.
History and technical data
The vehicles were created as a rationalization measure of the private railway company BLE to the decline in passenger traffic around 1930. The multiple unit consisted of a three-axle railcar and two four-axle passenger coaches converted into control cars, between which the VT ran in the middle. The four-axle control car originated from the early days of the Braunschweig State Railway. Only a driver's cab was built into them. The railcar was converted from a three-axle passenger car , which was designed as a Peronwagen, manufactured in 1915 by the Dessauer Waggonfabrik. Only the walls of this car have been retained. In addition to the machinery, a luggage compartment without seats was built into it.
The railcar unit converted in this way was ready after four years of conversion and came into operation in 1934. The entire unit covered around 70,500 km by the end of 1934. For the next two years, the mileage was slightly lower, by the end of 1936 the railcar had covered a total of 183,415 km.
With the transition of the railcar to the inventory of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, a control car was retired and the multiple unit continued to operate in the VT + VS arrangement . For this he was given the designation 137 238 a / b . Originally the vehicles were cream colored, afterwards they were made dark colored. Operation data during the state railroad time are not available. It was only mentioned that the railcar was parked in 1940.
In 1945 the two remaining wagons of the multiple unit came to the Dahme-Uckroer Railway , where they are said to have been used as passenger wagons. They thus came into the holdings of the DR in the GDR, which did not change their name. Use and retirement dates are not known.
Vehicle body
After the renovation, the former three-axle passenger car no longer had seats. A diesel-electric drive system with an additional luggage compartment was installed in the railcar . For this, the motor vehicle was given a large sliding door roughly in the middle. On the front side on the engine side of the car, the door to the boarding platform was designed as a double door for the purpose of changing the engine. The main driver's cab of the motor vehicle was on the left side of the vehicle. Access was either via the luggage compartment door in the middle of the car or via the double-leaf door from the front platform. In addition, the side walls received several ventilation grilles.
The diesel-electric drive system consisted of a six-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine from MAN with an output of 175 hp, the main generator and the two electric drive motors from BBC . The vehicles were equipped with the Knorr air brake. The compressed air required for this was also used for the bells , the typhon and the sand spreader . They had an on-board network of 24 V DC , fed by the exciter of the main generator or the battery.
literature
- Heinz R. Kurz: The railcars of the Reichsbahn types. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-88255-162-4 .
- Rolf Löttgers: Curiosities from the Railway Archive. In: MIBA miniature railways. Issue 4/2003.
Web links
- Articles about the vehicles for the Braunschweigische Landesbahn
- Mention of the vehicle on Roter-Brummer.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Rolf Löttgers: Curiosities from the railway archive. In: MIBA miniature railways. Issue 4/2003.
- ↑ Heinz R. Kurz: The railcars of the Reichsbahn types. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-88255-162-4 , p. 216.
- ↑ Detailed information about the vehicles on rote-Brummer.de.