BOB B3 6 imperial cars
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 BOB B 3 6 Kaiserwagen at the BC in Blonay in western Switzerland in September 2014
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| Numbering: | 6th |
| Number: | 1 |
| Manufacturer: | SIG |
| Year of construction (s): | 1901 |
| Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | 9,980 millimeters |
| Width: | 2,600 millimeters |
| Fixed wheelbase: | 6,200 millimeters |
| Empty mass: | 8.6 tons |
| Seats: | 24 (2nd class) |
The B 3 6 passenger car of the Bernese Oberland Railway (BOB) is a unique piece that has been preserved on the Blonay – Chamby (BC) museum railway . It was nicknamed Kaiserwagen on the occasion of the German Emperor's visit to Switzerland in autumn 1912.
history
The financial circumstances of the Bernese Oberland Railway were never really good because of the seasonal operation alone. For a long time, the number of passenger cars was rather underfunded for the days with high traffic. The railway company tried repeatedly to increase the number of passenger cars with smaller individual orders.
In 1900, for this reason, four passenger cars were ordered from what was then the Swiss Waggon Factory (SIG) in Neuhausen am Rheinfall . These were the B 3 5, B 3 6, C 3 25 and C 3 26 which were all delivered in green in 1901. The two C 3s were the same. The two B 3 were different. In 1902 the B 3 6 car was paid for with CHF 13,500.
The B 3 6 was freshly revised for the planned visit of the German Emperor Wilhelm II in autumn 1912 in the Bernese Oberland . However, the emperor did not use the car with his entourage for a visit to the Bernese Oberland, as he spent longer than planned on the imperial maneuver of III. Army Corps of the Swiss Army stayed in Eastern Switzerland . At this time, the passenger car was nicknamed the Kaiserwagen .
In 1956 the car was scrapped and in 1959 sold to the Meiringen-Innertkirchen-Bahn (MIB). This converted it from the B 3 to the B 2 and used the passenger car, now numbered as the B 2 2, in school traffic for years. During this renovation, the 24 seats in the upholstery class were replaced by 32 seats in the wood class. Since this took place during the change from three car classes to two car classes, the car was always referred to as B.
In 1978 the passenger car was bought by the model railway enthusiasts Eiger Zweilütschinen (MEFEZ) and returned to the meter-gauge rail network of the Bernese Oberland-Bahnen. There he was again from B 2 to B 3 rebuilt and provided with a bar furnishings. The blue and white paint was replaced by a historical brown paint with matching contemporary lettering. From 1980 the passenger car could still be used as a bar car with 16 wooden class seats in the historic trains and for extra trips. In this regard, it was approved for a maximum speed of 75 km / h and for the Interlaken-Lucerne line of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB).
Whereabouts
After it was last used in 2013 in front of special trains, the Kaiserwagen together with the HGe 3/3 29 of the Berner-Oberland-Bahnen came to the Blonay-Chamby museum railway in the same year. After adjustments, it has been used there since 2014 together with the aforementioned locomotive and the C 4 44 summer car, which also comes from the Berner Oberland-Bahnen, as a bar car in the Jungfrau Nostalgie Express , among other things .
literature
- Hans Häsler: The Berner Oberland Railways, a hundred years of railways to Lauterbrunnen and Grindelwald. Minirex, Lucerne 1990, ISBN 3-907014-04-9 .
- Wolfgang Finke: The vehicles of the Jungfrau Railways. Part 1: Bernese Oberland Railway (BOB), Jungfraubahn (JB), Mürrenbahn (BLM) . A book on DVD. Tram-tv publishing house, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813669-2-1 .
- Wolfgang Finke: The vehicles of the Jungfrau Railways. Part 2: Wengernalpbahn (WAB), Schynige Platte Railway (BLM), Harderbahn, Allmendhubelbahn, Heimwehfluhbahn . A book on DVD. Tram-tv publishing house, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813669-3-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.sig.biz Industrial History, History of the Swiss Industrial Society (SIG) (accessed on October 12, 2014)