DB class V 65
| DB class V 65 | |
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 V 65 in the Bochum-Dahlhausen Railway Museum
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| Numbering: | DB V 65 001-015 |
| Number: | 15th |
| Manufacturer: | MaK |
| Year of construction (s): | 1955/1956 |
| Retirement: | 1980 |
| Axis formula : | D. |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | 10,740 mm |
| Service mass: | 54.0 t |
| Wheel set mass : | 13.5 t |
| Top speed: | 80 km / h |
| Installed capacity: | 552 kW |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 1,250 mm |
| Number of traction motors: | 1 |
| Drive: | 6-cylinder engine MaK MS 301 C |
The locomotives of the series V 65 of the Deutsche Bundesbahn (from 1968: series 265 ) were intended as four-axle rod diesel locomotives for light mainline and medium-duty shunting service. The total of 15 locomotives were delivered to the Deutsche Bundesbahn by MaK from Kiel from 1955 .
description
The machines of the V 65 series were delivered to the DB shortly after the first V 60 went into service. The special features include the MaK motor with a speed of just 750 rpm and the Beugniot levers between the individual axles, which improve cornering. For the train heating, the locomotive has a boiler that is heated by the engine exhaust gases. The machine system must be preheated with a Dofa coke oven. 100 kg of coke can be carried for this purpose.
Although the number of locomotives of the V 65 series with only 15 units was relatively small, it was only a slight modification of the 600 D offered by MaK for private railways. This belonged to the so-called MaK rod locomotives , which were used in large numbers by private railways . Their power spectrum ranged from 240 hp to 1200 hp.
commitment
The 15 locomotives were initially used in the Marburg (Lahn) area in front of light passenger trains, but in 1964 they were replaced there by the more powerful V 100 . After that, five copies performed the shunting service in the Puttgarden ferry station on Fehmarn until 1980 , stationed at the Puttgarden depot . The remaining ten locomotives were used in Hamburg- Altona (including on the local port railway ).
Whereabouts
With the exception of two locomotives, all locomotives were scrapped after being decommissioned. The V 65 001 has been preserved by the Osnabrück steam locomotive friends after it has been in service with the Meppen-Haselünner Railway and is used by them as a museum locomotive . Another V 65, the V 65 011 , was inoperative for a long time as a loan from the DB Museum in the Bochum-Dahlhausen Railway Museum of the DGEG . In the meantime the locomotive has been transferred to the DB Museum in Koblenz-Lützel.
Oddities
In the first scenes of the film The Door with the Seven Locks , made in 1962, the V 65 007 of the German Federal Railroad can be seen very clearly standing in the station with the n-carriages attached. This reveals that the scenes were shot in a German train station and not - as the film would have you believe by means of signs in English - in a train station in London. The station is the old Hamburg-Altona station that was demolished in 1979.
See also
Web links
- V65 at loks-aus-kiel.de
- modellbau-wiki: The V 65 in a model