DR series VT 12.14
| VT 12.14 series | |
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 Railcar at the Leipzig spring fair in 1954
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| Numbering: | VT 12.14.01 – VT 12.14.03 From 1970: BR 181.0 |
| Manufacturer: | Ganz & Co. , Budapest |
| Year of construction (s): | 1954 |
| Retirement: | at the DR 1969, 1972 |
| Axis formula : | (1B) 2 '+ 2'2' + 2'2 '+ 2' (B1) |
| Length over buffers: | 96,030 mm |
| Service mass: | 198.5 t |
| Wheel set mass : | 15.0 t |
| Top speed: | 125 km / h |
| Indexed performance : | 2 × 331 kW |
| Wheel diameter: | 930 mm |
| Drive: | diesel mechanical |
| Brake: | Hikss + Z (block) |
| Train heating: | Warm water circulation heating by means of coal using the cooling water of the diesel engine |
| Seats: | 2nd class: 54 3rd class: 112 Dining room: 32 |
The vehicles of the VT 12.14 series were express multiple units of the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) for high-quality long-distance travel. The multiple units consisted of two end cars with diesel-mechanical drive and two intermediate cars.
One of the end cars was set up as a dining car with a kitchen and 32 seats at tables for four. This was followed by a 2nd class car with nine six-person compartments and an open seating car with 72 3rd class seats. The other end railcar had five third-class aft compartments. With the class reform of 1956, the old 2nd became the new 1st class and the old 3rd became the new 2nd class.
history
In 1954, the Deutsche Reichsbahn ordered three four-part diesel-mechanical multiple units VT 12.14 from Ganz & Co. in Budapest , later classified as class 181 . Identical trains were also acquired by the Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD) as the M 495.0 class and the Hungarian State Railways (MÁV) as the “Hargita” type.
The running characteristics of the trains were never entirely satisfactory, the maximum speed was tight, and the noisy mechanical gearbox caused problems. After the railway accident at Doberlug-Kirchhain , in which an identical Czechoslovak multiple unit was irreparably destroyed, one unit was handed over to the ČSD in 1963. The multiple unit ran there from then on with the numbers M 295.201 and M 295.202. The two remaining multiple units and the surplus intermediate car were retired in the 1970s.
A MÁV train is preserved as a museum in the Füsti Hungarian Railway Museum .
commitment
From the mid-1950s, the DR tried to build on the tradition of the famous high-speed railcars flying Hamburgers and used the VT 12.14 as an interzonal train between Berlin and Hamburg . However, they did not prove themselves there, so that the deployment only lasted a few years. Later, the multiple units ran on the route Berlin - Prague - Vienna as Vindobona . From the mid-1960s onwards, the Ganz sets only operated nationally from Berlin to Frankfurt (Oder), Neubrandenburg, Eisenhüttenstadt and Bautzen.
literature
- Wolfgang Dath: The “Görlitz” type express railcars . The railcar traffic in the GDR . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1998, ISBN 3-88255-205-0 , p. 99 ff .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Complete prospectus with floor plans ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , VT 12.14 can be found under No. 63
