Bavaria (train)

Bavaria (1954–14 December 2002)
Bavaria on the Allgäu Railway near Geltendorf
Route length:	355 km
History from 1969
Legend 0 Munich central station 131 Kempten (Allgäu) central station 221 Lindau Hbf Germany - Austria 231 Bregenz Austria - Switzerland 245 St. Margrethen 272 St. Gallen 329 Winterthur 355 Zurich HB

The Bavaria was a long-distance train that ran as an express train between Munich and Geneva from 1954 to 1969 and between Munich and Zurich from 1969 to 2002 . From 1969 to 1977 he drove as Trans-Europ-Express (TEE), then as D-Zug, InterCity and Eurocity .

history

SBB dining car of the TEE Bavaria in Munich

For the winter timetable in 1954, the rail administrations of Germany, Austria and Switzerland set up an express train with the train numbers 180/183 from Munich via Kempten (Allgäu) , Lindau (Lake Constance) and Zurich to Geneva . He received the Latin name of Bavaria , "Bavaria". The central part of the train's route ran over the non- electrified Allgäu Railway . Therefore, the express train was initially between Munich and Lindau of steam locomotives of the class 18.4 , the former Bavarian S 3/6, drawn. From 1962 diesel locomotives of the V 200.1 series stationed at the Kempten depot took over the traction of the Bavaria on the Allgäu Railway. At that time the train ran under the numbers D 92/93 (SBB: 124/109). From the summer timetable in 1955, the train ran as a light express train (LS) until the timetable change in 1959/60 .

Due to longer existing claims of the Bavarian and Swiss business world of the last driven as D 260/261 was train in the winter timetable 1969/70 for Trans-Europ-Express incremented (TEE). The train, from then on operated as TEE 56/57, only ran between Munich and Zurich. The trip from Munich to Zurich took four hours and seven minutes with the TEE, while the previous express train took five hours. One of the reasons for this was that the number of intermediate stops was reduced from 14 to six. The train stopped en route in Kempten (Allgäu) Hbf , Lindau , Bregenz , St. Margrethen , St. Gallen and Winterthur . In the terminal station Lindau there was a change of direction like with the D train. Initially, the Swiss-Dutch TEE multiple units of the type RAm of the SBB were used.

On February 9, 1971, the Aitrang railway accident occurred , in which the Bavaria derailed from Munich to Zurich and then a Uerdingen rail bus drove into the rubble. One RAm railcar was destroyed and 28 people were killed. After operations were interrupted for a week, the Bavaria was driven as a locomotive-hauled wagon train. This consisted of German TEE cars , one type Avmz 111 compartment car, one type Apmz 121 open seating car and, for a short period of time, an ARDmz 106 type bar car as a dining car replacement Received a TEE coating especially for this purpose. As for motive power, first a arrived Gasturbinenlok the 210 series of the German Federal Railways on the section Munich- Lindau and between Lindau and Zurich a SBB Re 4/4 I have been painted in the TEE colors used. In addition, these locomotives received wider pantograph slips for the routes in Germany and Austria. Later the Bavaria was pulled on the German section by locomotives of the DB class 218 .

For the summer timetable change on May 22, 1977, the Bavaria was abandoned as TEE and now drove as D 276/277 with both car classes . From the 1983 summer schedule to the 1983/84 winter schedule, it operated for six months as FernExpress FD 268/269. On June 3, 1984, it was promoted to InterCity . With the introduction of EuroCity traffic on May 31, 1987, the Bavaria was integrated into this type of train and was given train numbers 98/99. At the end of 2002 the name Bavaria was abandoned. In the 2020 timetable year, the Eurocity train pairs 194/195 and 196/197 last used this route before they were replaced on December 13, 2020 by six daily train pairs that run via Memmingen and the Aeschacher curve instead of Kempten and Lindau Hbf. These trains have intermediate stops in Buchloe, Memmingen, Lindau-Reutin , Bregenz, St. Margrethen, St. Gallen, Winterthur and Zurich Airport and are managed as ECE in Germany .

Timetable

In the 1963 summer timetable, the D 92 left Munich Hbf at 7:52 a.m. , stopped in Buchloe , Kaufbeuren , Kempten- Hegge and Röthenbach (Allgäu) . He reached Lindau at 10:36 a.m. 10 minutes later he drove towards Bregenz, St. Margrethen, Rorschach , St. Gallen, Winterthur and Zurich HB. The 124 arrived in Zurich at 13:01. After stops in Bern and Lausanne, the Genève-Cornavin terminus was reached at 16:41 . The return train, the 109 left Geneva at 6:43, reached Zurich 10:06, Lindau 12:41 - henceforth as D 93 - and Munich 15:47, but also stopped in Friborg , Wil SG and Gossau SG .

Winter timetable 1971/72

TEA 66	country	km	railway station	TEA 67
17:46	Germany	0	Munich central station	12:28
19:01		131	Kempten (Allgäu)	11:12
20:02		221	Lindau	10:09
20:10	Austria	231	Bregenz	10:00
20:25	Switzerland	245	St. Margrethen	09:45
20:51		272	St. Gallen	09:20
21:30		329	Winterthur	08:41
21:52		355	Zurich HB	08:20

literature

• Siegfried Bufe: Allgäubahn, Munich – Kempten – Lindau . Bufe, Egglham 1991, ISBN 3-922138-41-1 .
• DB advertising office: Right of way in Europe, TEE 1971/72 . Ed .: Deutsche Bundesbahn. Frankfurt am Main 1971.
• Martin Van Oostrum: De Nederlands-Zwitserse TEE . Uquilair, Utrecht 1997, ISBN 90-71513-28-9 (Dutch).
• Peter Goette, Peter Willen: TEE trains in Switzerland and Swiss TEE trains abroad . EK Verlag, Freiburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-88255-697-1 .
• Peter Goette: TEE trains in Germany . EK Verlag, Freiburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88255-698-8 .
• Maurice Mertens, Jean-Pierre Malaspina: La Légende des Trans Europ Express . LR Presse, Vannes 2007, ISBN 978-2-903651-45-9 (French).
• Hans-Bernhard Schönborn: The TEE trains in Switzerland . GeraMond Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7654-7122-4 .
• Jörg Hajt: The big TEE book . Ed .: Heel. Bonn / Königswinter 2001, ISBN 3-89365-948-X .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörg Hajt: The big TEE book . Ed .: Heel. Bonn / Königswinter 2001, ISBN 3-89365-948-X , p. 100 .
2. ^ Peter Goette, Peter Willen: TEE trains in Switzerland and Swiss TEE trains abroad . EK Verlag, Freiburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-88255-697-1 , p. 131 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} SBB timetable summer 1963, timetable fields H4, 10, 50, 100
4. ^ ^{A b} Andreas Janikowski: The Ammerseebahn. Traffic development in western Upper Bavaria . Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71033-8 , pp. 87-88 .
5. ^ Maurice Mertens, Jean-Pierre Malaspina: La Légende des Trans Europ Express . LR Presse, Vannes 2007, ISBN 978-2-903651-45-9 , p. 286 (French).
6. ^ Martin Van Oostrum: De Nederlands-Zwitserse TEE . Uquilair, Utrecht 1997, ISBN 90-71513-28-9 , pp. 141 (Dutch).
7. ↑ ^{a b} Jörg Hajt: The great TEE book. 50 years of Trans-Europ-Express . HEEL, Königswinter 2007, ISBN 978-3-89880-305-2 , p. 103-104 .
8. ^ Peter Goette: TEE trains in Germany . EK Verlag, Freiburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88255-698-8 , p. 120 .
9. ^ Martin Van Oostrum: De Nederlands-Zwitserse TEE . Uquilair, Utrecht 1997, ISBN 90-71513-28-9 , pp. 155-159 (Dutch).
10. ^ Peter Goette, Peter Willen: TEE trains in Switzerland and Swiss TEE trains abroad . EK Verlag, Freiburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-88255-697-1 , p. 135 .
11. ^ Hans-Bernhard Schönborn: The TEE trains in Switzerland . GeraMond Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-7654-7122-4 , p. 130 .
12. ^ Maurice Mertens, Jean-Pierre Malaspina: La Légende des Trans Europ Express . LR Presse, Vannes 2007, ISBN 978-2-903651-45-9 , p. 289 (French).
13. ^ Maurice Mertens, Jean-Pierre Malaspina: La Légende des Trans Europ Express . LR Presse, Vannes 2007, ISBN 978-2-903651-45-9 , p. 288 (French).
14. ↑ Bayern-Kursbuch 2020. (PDF; 33.6 MiB) In: Bahnland Bayern. Bayerische Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH, 2019, accessed on June 2, 2020 . 
15. ↑ Timetable 2021: Munich and Zurich are growing together. Deutsche Bahn AG, October 11, 2020, accessed on December 21, 2020 . 
16. ↑ DB advertising office: Right of way in Europe, TEE 1971/72 . Ed .: Deutsche Bundesbahn. Frankfurt am Main 1971. , plate 9