DR series ET 51

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DR series ET 51
ET 51
ET 51
Numbering: elT 17 01-04
ET 51 01-04
Number: 4th
Manufacturer: Linke-Hofmann-Werke , Breslau
WASSEG
BBC
Year of construction (s): 1934
Retirement: 1945/46 (war loss )
Axis formula : Bo'Bo '
Genre : BCPw4i
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Length over buffers: 20,300 mm
Service mass: 59.6 t
Wheel set mass : 17.6 t
Top speed: 90 km / h
Hourly output : 664 kW
Driving wheel diameter: 1,000 mm
Power system : 15 kV, 16 2/3 Hz
Power transmission: Overhead line
Number of traction motors: 4th
Seats: 63
Classes : 2nd / 3rd

The vehicles of the DR series ET 51 were electric multiple units of the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) for the express train traffic in Silesia .

history

The class ET 51 railcars were specially designed for use in the Silesian network in the early 1930s. The Linke-Hofmann-Werke in Breslau manufactured the mechanical part, while the BBC and a delivery group consisting of AEG and Siemens-Schuckert ( WASSEG ) were responsible for the delivery of the electrical components . In 1934 the four units consisting of multiple units, control cars and sidecars were delivered to the Deutsche Reichsbahn.

It was not until 1939 that technically advanced vehicles were put into service as the DR series ET 51.1 .

In the spring of 1945 most of the electric vehicles on the Silesian routes were evacuated to the west via Bohemia before the approaching war front . After the end of the war, the ET 51 01 railcar and a trailer and control car each (EB 51 01 / ES 51 11) were in Esslingen am Neckar and later became part of the Deutsche Bundesbahn . ET 51 03 and 04 reached RAW Dessau via the Leipzig Hbf West depot and the Saalfeld depot and were transported to the Soviet Union in November 1946 as a reparation payment . According to eyewitness reports, the ET 51 02 was in Lauban in Silesia at the end of the war and also disappeared towards the Soviet Union. These three railcars were dismantled in the Soviet Union. A former EB 51 was still used as a catenary assembly car for the PKP in the 1970s .

After the end of the war there was a three-part ET 51 set in the area of ​​the American occupation zone. The Deutsche Bundesbahn later added the three vehicles to the ET / ES 65 series after being converted for suburban traffic in Stuttgart . The train was nicknamed Iwan by the Esslingen railway workers .

commitment

The ET 51 were primarily used in express train traffic on the Silesian Mountain Railway between Görlitz and Breslau Freiburg station. However, there is also evidence of operations in passenger trains, for example on the Hirschberg – Landeshut connection .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Railways in Silesia Part 2, Eisenbahnkurier Special 85/2007, page 65

literature

  • Horst Joachim Obermayer: Paperback German railcars . 6th edition Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 1986. ISBN 3-440-04054-2
  • Hansjürgen Wenzel, Gerhard Greß: The Railway in Silesia, Eisenbahnkurier Special 3/2005 . EK-Verlag, 2005, ISSN  0170-5288 .
  • Thomas Estler: ET 65 series, transpress Verlag 1999