DB class ET 195
| ET 195 01-02 | |
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| Numbering: | ET 195 01-02 |
| Number: | 2 |
| Manufacturer: | Duewag |
| Year of construction (s): | 1954 |
| Retirement: | 1959 |
| Type : | B'2'g1t |
| Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) |
| Length over coupling: | 15,040 mm |
| Height: | 3350 mm |
| Width: | 2200 mm |
| Trunnion Distance: | 6000 mm |
| Bogie axle base: | 1800 mm |
| Total wheelbase: | 7800 mm |
| Service mass: | 16.2 t |
| Top speed: | 60 km / h |
| Continuous output : | 100 kW |
| Performance indicator: | 100 kW |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 660 mm |
| Impeller diameter: | 660 mm |
| Power system : | 750 volts = |
| Power transmission: | Catenary |
| Number of traction motors: | 1 |
| Coupling type: | BSI compact coupling |
| Seats: | 34 |
| Standing room: | 36 |
| Classes : | 3rd - from 1956 2nd |
The railcars of the DB series ET 195 were procured in 1954 by the Deutsche Bundesbahn for the meter-gauge federal tram Ravensburg – Weingarten – Baienfurt , a few years before it was closed. 1961-1963 were the two electric tram - railcars in Greater design for use on the Rotterdamsche Tramweg Maatschappij (RTM) on Cape gauge placed and rebuilt. Together with a generator car specially created for this purpose and also externally adapted to them , they formed the M 17 diesel-electric multiple unit there. Re-gauged again, but unchanged in terms of drive technology, the train finally ran until 1999 as the VT1 on the Zillertalbahn in Austria.
history
When the number of passengers on the Ravensburg – Baienfurt route increased after the Second World War, in 1954 the German Federal Railroad procured two - at the time ultra-modern - Duewag open -plan cars with electrical equipment from Kiepe from Duewag in Düsseldorf . They were necessary for the cycle compression introduced from 1955 between Ravensburg and Weingarten. The two new cars with the serial numbers 26887 and 26888 were added to the inventory as ET 195 01 and ET 195 02 and together cost 340,000 D-Marks. They were put into operation on April 9, 1954 with a press trip followed by a conference in the Hotel Hildenbrand; the passengers were enthusiastic about the bright, fast, well-ventilated and heated cars. The new vehicles were sometimes used together in double traction . For technical reasons, however, they could not be used together with the older railway vehicles.
In principle, these were standard vehicles, as they were used by many German tram operators at the time, but as a special feature - analogous to the old vehicles converted a few years earlier - they only had doors on one side (two double doors) from the start, although there was were also classic bidirectional vehicles . This was only possible because all platforms of the Ravensburg – Weingarten – Baienfurt tram were on the same side. The position of the pantograph in the middle of the car was unusual for four-axle bogie cars . Because there was only one tram line in Ravensburg, they did have a roll-up display for the destination, but no line number box. The paint was lime green, supplemented by a dark green trim strip below the ribbon window and several silver trim strips. It thus deviated from the rest of the tram fleet in particular and the other railcars of the Deutsche Bundesbahn in general and is explained by the fact that it belongs to a series. At that time, the Rheinbahn and Vestische trams also ordered green Duewag open- plan cars . The owner's lettering "Deutsche Bundesbahn", only on the doorless side, was only found on the two ET 195s on such a background. Therefore they were popularly referred to as "the Greens". In the interior, upholstered seating groups covered with green artificial leather were used in a face-to-face arrangement and with a 2 + 1 seat divider, class numbers were not written.
The two trams were the only narrow-gauge railcars newly acquired by the Deutsche Bundesbahn . On all other narrow-gauge railroads of the state railway, however, the operation continued to be carried out exclusively with locomotive-hauled trains.
Further use
After the final decision to discontinue the Ravensburg – Weingarten – Baienfurt tram, the two new- build vehicles, which were just seven years old, were sold in 1961 to the Dutch overland tram Rotterdamsche Tramweg Maatschappij ( RTM ), which they used to build the M 17 diesel-electric multiple unit , which was then operated by 1970 to 1999 was used as the VT 1 on the Zillertalbahn and is now owned by the Stichting voorheen RTM museum railway .
technology
The car body and bogies were made of a welded lightweight steel construction. The first bogie was powered, the motor was located between the axles and powered them via axle drives. The vehicles also had three different brakes.
literature
- Horst J. Obermayer (Ed.): Paperback German Triebwagen . Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-440-04054-2 .
- Kurt Seidel: Narrow gauge in Baden-Württemberg . Einhorn, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1977, ISBN 3-921703-19-0 .
Web links
- ET 195: DB's green tram - vehicle presentation on eisenbahnwelt.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Wolf-Dietger Machel: Secondary and narrow-gauge railways in Germany then & now. Loose-leaf collection. Volume 13 Baden-Württemberg: Ravensburg – Weingarten – Baienfurt
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
