CPost Bay 61

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CPost Bay 61
Numbering: 15 501-15 512
Number: 12
Year of construction (s): 1861-73
Retirement: <1930
Genre : CPost
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Length over buffers: 8,412 mm
Length: 7,100 mm
Height: 3,800 mm
Width: 2,900 mm
Total wheelbase: 3,790 / 4,100 / 4,380 mm
Service mass: 14,000 kg
Brake: Hand spindle brake / Westinghouse
Coupling type: Screw coupling according to VDEV
Seats: 18th
Floor height: 1,200 mm
Classes : III

The Bavarian CPost Bay 61 were braked, combined mail and passenger cars for general passenger traffic, which were originally built for the BOB. They were listed in the car register of the Royal Bavarian State Railways (K.Bay.Sts.B.) from 1897 under sheet no. 125 or in the one from 1913 under sheet no. 208 for the Post C type .

history

The transport of mail was also a state monopoly in Bavaria which was managed with horse-drawn carriages. With the advent of the railroad, competition arose from the state. With corresponding contracts, all companies - including state companies - were obliged to support the postal service. This happened in § 15 of the BOB concession document in such a way that 

	„daß die Benützung der Eisenbahnen von Seite der Post bei allen Fahrten vorbehalten bleibe.“

This meant that the railway company had to procure and provide the appropriate rolling stock at its own expense, while the staff was provided by the postal administration.

development

Since there was a dispute over several years between the state offices and the administration of the BOB over the issue of costs and reimbursement of costs for the postal service, it was only after 1861 that pure mail cars were built and delivered. Until then, the service compartments in the baggage cars were equipped with lockable mailboxes. These pure mail cars had the type M (Malle = French post) at the BOB .

procurement

On January 14, 1861, the BOB commissioned a total of 18 mail cars from Klett. From the deliveries of the series from 1861/62 (M1 - Plan), after the wagons were taken over by the State Railways (1876), a total of six wagons were converted into combined mail and passenger wagons for local rail traffic. From another delivery of mail wagons in 1864/72 (M2 - plan, supplier Rathgeber), another four wagons were converted into combined mail and passenger wagons. Two more cars followed in 1867 and 1873, respectively. All of them were given the Post C code .

Whereabouts

Only eight cars were listed in the 1913 directory. By handwritten additions / updates to the documents up to 1919, another two cars were removed from the inventory, so that at the time of the transfer to the Bavarian group administration, only six cars were left in the inventory. The whereabouts of these cars is unclear. However, they are all likely to have been retired by 1930.

Constructive features

Underframe

The frame of the car was a mixture of wood and iron. The side members were made of profile iron, the head sleepers (buffer beams) and the cross members were made of wood. As a towing device, the wagons had screw couplings according to VDEV . The drawbar was spring-loaded throughout and in the middle. As a shock device, the cars had rod buffers with an installation length of 700 mm on the brakeman's cab side and 612 mm on the opposite. The buffer plates had a diameter of 370 mm.

drive

The wagons had riveted half-timbered axles. The axles were stored in sliding axle bearings. The wheels had spoked wheel bodies of the Bavarian type 24. The suspension springs, each 1,764 millimeters long, had 9 blades each. The cross-section of the leaves was 95 x 13 millimeters. In addition to a hand spindle brake, which could be operated from the raised brakeman's cab, compressed air brakes from the Westinghouse system were also installed. The brakes worked on both sides of all wheels. The braking system had the deflection bracket in the middle of the car, which is typical for Bavarian cars.

Car body

The frame of the 7,100 mm long car body consisted of wooden studs. This was clad with sheet metal on the outside and wood on the inside. The joints between the sheets were covered by cover strips. The roof was flatly rounded and slightly extended beyond the side walls. The side walls were slightly indented in the lower area. The wagons had continuous side walkways. The BOB-type brakeman's cab was integrated off-center in the car body and only accessible from the outside. Access was from one side by means of steps on the front wall.

Furnishing

After its conversion to the CPost, the car type had two third-class compartments and a post compartment for letters and parcels. The compartments were accessed through side doors. The two passenger compartments were connected by an open passage, the benches were simple slatted constructions. The order of the compartments was the brakeman's cab side post - C - C . In the passenger compartments there were 18 seats available, for military use only 16. The lighting was provided by petroleum lights. The passenger compartments were heated by steam, and in the mail compartment by an oven. The car was ventilated through slats over the windows, which could also be lowered.

Sketches, sample sheets, photos

  • WV of 1879, sketch sheet 055, Post Bay 61

  • WV of 1879, sketch sheet 056, Post Bay 61

  • WV from 1897 Sketch for sheet 125, CPost Bay 61

  • WV from 1913 Sketch for sheet 208, CPost Bay 61

Wagon numbers

The data are essentially taken from the rolling stock registers of the Royal Bavarian State Railways, compiled from July 1, 1879, March 31, 1897, March 31, 1913 and the article by A. Mühl in Lok Magazin 102.

Manufacturing data Car numbers for each era,
generic symbols 		landing gear Furnishing Additional information
construction
year 		manufacturers
manufacturers 		BOB from 1876 from 1893 from 1909 DR
(from 1923) 		excluded
screened 		Number
Ax. 		Bicycle
stand
(mm) 		LüP
(mm) 		Brem-
sen 		Under-
Gest. 		Steering
axle. 		Bl. Hz. Type u. Number of compartments
(number of seats)
(see legend) 		comment
Sheet number. 208 I
formerly 125 		M. BP
(formerly 55) 		post Office CPost CPost Bay 61 (see respective legend) A. III B. D. G P Z
1861 Velcro 9 18 272 15 501 <xx / 1913 2 3,760 8,412 Brh;
Wsbr 		E, H P D
O 		2
18
(16) 		1 1
10 18 273 15 502 <xx / 1919
11 18 274 15 503 <xx / 1913
1862 13 18 276 15 504 <xx / 1919
14th 18 277 15 505 15 505 <xx / ??
18th 18 281 15 506 <xx / 1913
Sheet number. 208 II
formerly 125 		M. BP
(formerly 56) 		post Office CPost CPost Bay 61 (see respective legend) A. III B. D. G P Z
1862 Rathg. 19th 18 282 15 507 <xx / 1919 2 4,380 8,412 Hbr;
Wsbr 		E, H P D
O 		18
(16) 		1 1
20th 18 283 15 508 15 508 <xx / 19 ??
23 18 286 15 509 15 509 <xx / 19 ??
24 18 287 15 510 15 510 <xx / 19 ??
Sheet number. 208 III
formerly 125 		M. BP
(formerly 56) 		post Office CPost CPost Bay 61 (see respective legend) A. III B. D. G P Z
1867 Rathg. 27 18 290 15 511 15 511 <xx / 19 ?? 2 4,100 8,412 Hbr;
Wsbr 		E, H P D
O 		18
(16) 		1 1
1873 37 18 300 15 512 15 512 <xx / 1913

literature

  • Alto Wagner: Bavarian passenger coaches . 1st edition. Kiruba Verlag, Mittelstetten 2015, ISBN 978-3-945631-00-3 .
  • Emil Konrad: The passenger coaches of the German national railways . 1st edition. Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung W. Keller & Co., Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-440-05327-X .
  • Mühl, Albert: The Bavarian and Württemberg rail mail cars . In: Lok Magazin . No. 102 , 1980, pp. 222 u. following .
  • Dr. Gert von Rosen-von Heuwel: The mail and baggage cars of the royal privileged Bavarian Eastern Railways . In: Länderbahnmagazin . No. 6 , 2005, p. 1 - 11 .
  • Vehicle fleet directory of the Royal Bavarian State Railways . (Compiled according to the status of June 1, 1879).
  • Vehicle fleet directory of the Royal Bavarian State Railways . (Compiled according to the status of March 31, 1897).
  • Vehicle fleet directory of the Royal Bavarian State Railways . (Compiled according to the status of March 31, 1913).