Railway service vehicle

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Different railway service vehicles of the Deutsche Bahn in Entenfang
Lifting device of a motor trolley of the DB series Klv 12

A railway service vehicle (also a railway service vehicle , rail maintenance vehicle ) is a special vehicle for internal railway work. Railway service vehicles can perform a variety of tasks: Draisines, for example, are used to inspect track systems, track measuring vehicles are used to check the route, work vehicles are available to carry out repairs on the route and snow blowers ensure that it is drivable in winter. Railway service vehicles can also be used for internal rail transport; so Rottenkraftwagen are often used to transport building materials to track construction sites. Locomotives can also be used as railway service vehicles if they are used for the maintenance of railway lines.

Draisines

Transporting personnel by rail and for the inspection of railway tracks are Handcars been produced in different versions. In some cases, special designs were created, such as the DB series Klv 11 / Klv 12 , the ÖBB X629 or the narrow-gauge version of the latter, the ÖBB X629.9 . In other cases, road vehicles were converted into draisines, an example of this is the DB series Klv 20 based on the VW T1 . To directional vehicles without hub to contact, mechanical lifting devices were developed.

Track maintenance

The 725 and 726 series are track measuring cars

The DB track measuring cars of the series are used for track measurement

Among other things, heavy-duty rail vehicles (SKL) are procured for general work :

The Klv 53 is the most built and still most common heavy-duty compact car ( Rottenkraftwagen ) of the German Federal Railroad

Ballast cleaning machines , track tamping machines , ballast leveling machines (ballast rakes), material conveying and silo units as well as rail grinding trains (also grinding cars for trams ) are used for special work in the track superstructure .

Two-way vehicles are also used on the main railways if necessary .

Contact line maintenance

The ÖBB series X552 includes diesel-hydraulic tower cars
Vehicle for maintaining and repairing the catenary. The crane has a work platform and the pantograph is necessary to align and measure the contact line. Note also the observation platform behind the single-arm pantograph.

The wagon factory Rastatt disarmed in 1913 for the Baden State Railways two cars on the basis Boxcar for catenary work in the construction on the Wiesentalbahn with diesel engines, which were designated as the TVT Kar 700 233 or 234 in the vehicle fleet, in 1958 they were redrawn in Karlsruhe 8471 resp. Kar 8472. In 1963 it was decommissioned as a railcar, but continued to be used as a workshop car with a tower structure. In 1970 the number 30 80 94 54 809-3 was redesigned and a little later it was scrapped.

The following series are used to maintain contact lines at DB :

Motor tower cars of the series ÖBB X521 , ÖBB X532S , ÖBB X534 , ÖBB X535 , ÖBB X551 , ÖBB X552 , ÖBB X552.1 , ÖBB X554.3 and ÖBB X556.1 are in use in Austria .

Tunnel test vehicle

Today's vehicles of the DB series 705 and 712 are specially equipped for tunnel investigations .

As early as 1908, the Prussian State Railways put special vehicles into service for examining railway tunnels. Three similar vehicles were in use until after the Second World War, and another was added in 1932 for the BD Karlsruhe area.

The tunnel investigation vehicle 711 001 was built in 1959 and replaced by an auxiliary vehicle in the 1980s . The tunnel profile measuring car 712 001 (called tunnel hedgehog) was created in 1965 from an older diesel railcar. In 1993 Plasser & Theurer delivered the profile measuring van (PROM) 712 002 equipped with laser technology as the successor.

The ÖBB X401 tunnel inspection vehicle is used in Austria .

Snow removal

The S-Bahn de-icing car 732 001 and the snow clearing vehicles of the DB series 716 are specially designed for rail service. In Austria, ÖBB 2080 and ÖBB 2180 are responsible for clearing snow . The Rhaetian Railway maintains an Xrot 9213 steam snow blower on the Bernina line for snow removal .

Slewing rail cranes

As an emergency of damaged cranes especially for salvaging railway vehicles, DB maintains rail cranes of the 732 series and the 733 series , as well as older models.

Performance measurement car

Measuring car M of ElVersA Munich in July 1960 in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf
Measuring car of the VÚKV (Research Institute for Rail Vehicles) 2017 on the Velim Railway Test Ring in the Czech Republic

The test offices in Minden and Munich of the Deutsche Bundesbahn as well as the VES-M hall of the Deutsche Reichsbahn used special four-axle measuring vehicles to measure the performance of locomotives . One of the main tasks was the proof of performance for newly built locomotives before acceptance by the manufacturer. These measurements have to be made today at the manufacturer's expense and verified for the decreasing orbit.

The measuring cars were equipped with extensive measuring equipment as well as bedrooms and lounges for the staff and had a pantograph for auxiliary power supply as well as for measuring purposes. A powerful diesel generator is available for generating electricity on non-electrified routes. You can see it in the picture: Many measuring vehicles have a push- pull train driver's cab to save time .

The vehicle color of the Deutsche Bundesbahn was mostly red, in Halle green; the newer cars were painted gentian blue or steel blue and light ivory.

Even today, the DB AG has appropriate measuring vehicles. In contrast to the past, they are painted yellow.

Locomotives

Even locomotives of normal design are occasionally used for railway service purposes, for example to transport other non-powered railway service vehicles such as measuring vehicles, snow plows or rescue trains. Often these are locomotives from the normal operating stock, but in some cases such locomotives are also used exclusively for rail service purposes and are therefore given a company number from the field of rail service vehicles. In 2010, Deutsche Bahn only used one series designated in this way, but there have also been others in recent years:

The series numbers between 750 and 770 were assigned to locomotives that were in use for the DB's research and technology center , all of these locomotives have now been redrawn to their original number or a new number within the original series or taken out of service:

  • The class 750 contained locomotives of the former class 103 . The 750 001 and 002 were the former pre-series locomotives E 03 001 and 002, both of which are preserved in museums today. In the meantime, the number 103 222 was designated as 750 003; this has got its old number again and is still used with measuring trains.
  • The 751 series was the name of the former 110 series that was only used in one example for test drives . The locomotive 751 001 was created in 1989 simply by redrawing from the 110 385. After the end of service, the locomotive was re-designated as the 110 385 in 1997 and was used in local traffic until 2000.
  • Locomotives for measurement runs that belonged to the pre -series of the DB class 120 were also running as class 752 . All five pre-series locomotives 120 001–005 were used from 1989 as class 752 (with the same serial number). The 752 001 and 002 were scrapped, 752 003, 004 and 005 are preserved as museums.
  • The 753 series was used for test drives for two of the 217 series prototypes . Both have been redrawn to their old numbers 217 001 and 002, the former now being a non-operational exhibit in a railway museum in Horb. 217 002 is used by a private power company.
  • The locomotives 130, 101 and 102 , which were taken over from the VES-M hall of the Deutsche Reichsbahn , were added to the class 754 . 130 101 has been preserved in a museum in Halle since 1997.
  • The class 755 also referred to a locomotive taken over from the DR. The former 112 025 was designated as 755 025, which was renamed 114 501 in 2005.
  • The 756 series also consisted of only one copy. From 1995, 756 624 was the new name of the shunting locomotive in the VES-M Halle (formerly 101 624), which was retired in 1997.
  • The 760 series was the name of the project for a shunting locomotive with natural gas drive. The former V60 877 was used as the 760 877 from 2000 to 2004 in the Munich area. The locomotive was scrapped after this mission.

See also

literature

  • Hans-Wolfgang Scharf: The railway in Baden. Volume 2: Electric and internal combustion operation . EK, Freiburg 1995. ISBN 3-88255-762-1 .
  • Axel Polnik: Service vehicles (1) Railway service locomotives, cars and auxiliary vehicles . MIBA report, Nuremberg 2000 ISBN 3-86046-037-4 .
  • Peter Driesch: Service vehicles (2) Railway service freight cars . MIBA report, Nuremberg 2002 ISBN 3-86046-038-2 .
  • Arend Boldt: Railway service vehicles - technology and tasks of the 701 to 740 series . Lokrundschau Verlag, Gülzow 1998 ISBN 3-931647-06-4 .
  • Ralf Roman Rossberg : Checking - Testing - Trying - Monitoring . In: railway magazine . Alba publication, 2012, ISSN  0342-1902 (3-part publication on railway measuring vehicles in the 5/2012, 6/2012 and 7/2012 issues).

DVD

  • Measurement trains at Bahn EK Verlag, Freiburg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klv 20 draisine, VW bus. (No longer available online.) In: www.eisenbahndienstfahrzeuge.de. Archived from the original on July 18, 2011 ; accessed on November 21, 2015 .
  2. ^ Bahnamt-Draisine Klv 20. In: www.eisenbahnfreunde- borderland.de. Retrieved November 21, 2015 .