BVZ ABDeh 8/8

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ABDeh 8/8
BDeh 2043 in Kalter Boden
BDeh 2043 in Kalter Boden
Numbering: 2041-2043
Number: 3
Manufacturer: SLM / SIG / SAAS
Year of construction (s): 1965
Retirement: until 2014
Axis formula : Bo'zz Bo'zz + Bo'zz Bo'zz
Gauge : 1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Length over buffers: 35,100 mm
Bogie axle base: 2,730 mm
Service mass: 92 t
Top speed: 55 km / h (adhesion)
30 km / h (rack)
Hourly output : 1176 kW
Continuous output : 1112 kW
Gear system : Dept
Power system : 11 kV , 16.7 Hz ~
Power transmission: Overhead line
Drive: electric
Coupling type: Central buffer coupling
Seats: 12 (1st class)
96 (2nd class)
Classes : 1st and 2nd class

The ABDeh 8/8 were gear - EMUs of Brig-Visp-Zermatt-Bahn (BVZ) and the successor Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB).

ABDeh 6/6 2041 in new MGB paintwork (front)

The double railcars are a further development of the articulated railcars ABDeh 6/6 , which went into operation in 1960 and which were ordered at the end of the 1950s due to increased traffic and were able to transport a train weight of 132 t. Thanks to the fourth motor bogie, the ABDeh 8/8 could even transport a train weight of 175 t. They also differ from their predecessors in terms of their structure: the two closely coupled car bodies sit on two bogies each, on the two outer bogies with two side supports each and on the two inside bogies with two center supports each. With the ABDeh 8/8, as with the ABDeh 6/6, there is a luggage compartment on the Zermatt side and a 1st class compartment on the Brig side, but then the entry platform follows in the middle, followed by the toilet and the equipment room . As with the predecessors, the two second-class compartments are in the middle. They also have a cardan shaft and angled axle drive . However, the transformer is no longer above the boarding platform, but under the floor of the car.

In 1980 the aging rubber suspensions, which were responsible for frequent derailments , were replaced by new Flexicoil suspensions .

The Stadler multiple units BDSeh 4/8 and Komet , which were delivered from 2002 to 2014, allowed the three double multiple units to be withdrawn gradually. In 2008 the first vehicle was broken off with the 2043, in 2011 the 2041 suffered the same fate, in 2014 the 2042 was taken out of service and parked.

It was once considered that the MGBahn-Historic association would receive the double multiple unit no. 2042, but the still young association refrained from this, as this unfortunately defective double multiple unit would have required a million sum, which is still in the "starting blocks" for the one "stuck club would have represented a big chunk. In addition, you have to see that compared to the other vehicles of the association, this double multiple unit would have been very young and, for example, much less known than the HGe 4/4 "balcony locomotives (ex.FO)" and "crocodiles (ex.BVZ)" would have been.

For these reasons, the last BVZ double multiple unit was unfortunately sent for disposal in October 2017.

List of ABDeh 8/8

Company number Baptismal name Installation status
2041 Brig 1965 Discarded & canceled 2011
2042 Visp 1965 retired in 2014 & canceled in 2017
2043 Zermatt 1965 Discarded & canceled in 2008

literature

  • Hans-Bernhard-Schönborn: Swiss locomotives . GeraMond, 2004, ISBN 3-7654-7176-3 , pp. 86-87 .
  • Theo Stolz: Locomotives in Switzerland . Minirex, Lucerne 2007, ISBN 978-3-907014-31-8 , p. 161 .
  • Wolfgang Finke, Hans Schweers: The vehicles of the Furka-Oberalp-Bahn 1913-1999 . Brig – Furka – Disentis. Schöllenenbahn. Furka-Oberalp Railway. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 1999, ISBN 3-89494-111-1 .