DR 137 031… 093

DR 137 031-035, 074, 080-093 " Standard railcars with Essen layout"
numbering	DR : 137 031-035 DB VT 70 911 from 1970: DR 185 001-002	DR : 137 074 DB VT 39 000 DB VT 32 002	DR : 137 080-093 DB VT 33 204-208 211.212 from 1970: DR 185 009-010
Manufacturer	MAN		Düwag Talbot
Operating category	BC4ivT
Seats	61
Standing room	50
Construction year	1934		1935
Retirement	-1975	1964	-1977
number	5	1	14th
Wheel diameter	900 mm
Bogie wheelbase	MD: 3,500 mm TD: 3,000 mm
Pivot spacing	14,270 mm
Total wheelbase	17,470 mm	17,520 mm
Length over buffers	21,873 mm
Service mass	empty 42,266 kg occupied 46,841 kg	empty 44,290 kg occupied 48,865 kg	empty 42,500 kg occupied 49,070 kg
Top speed	100 km / h		110 km / h
Brakes	Air brakes of the Hildebrandt-Knorr type
Parking brake	Handbrake
Installed capacity	302 kW (410 hp)	309 kW (420 hp)	302 kW (410 hp)
Engine type	originally Maybach GO 5	originally MAN L2x6V 17.5 / 18	originally Maybach GO 5
Engine type	Twelve-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine
Tank capacity	1,020 l		990 l
Power transmission	electric

The railcars 137 031 to 035 , 074 and 080 to 093 are a series of railcars that were originally built with 302 kW of power for the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft as a standard railcar with an Essen floor plan . The vehicles of the individual series differ mainly in the machine system and the power control. After 1945 seven vehicles each came to the two German railway administrations, where the last vehicle was taken out of service by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1977 . One vehicle from the series has not been preserved. The VT 137 033 , which had been converted into a holiday accommodation, was still present in the Lietzow (Rügen) station with a control car in 1991 and was later scrapped.

history

Reichsbahn time

With the same machinery as the DR 137 028 to 030 , the Deutsche Reichsbahn initially ordered five railcars based on the so-called Essen layout in 1934 . A car (DR 137 074) with an engine with 309 kW power and 14 other vehicles with the same drive engine as the first delivery were ordered later. For the first time, the vehicles provided a passenger compartment with a central entry and double sliding door for the accelerated passenger flow, as the DR wanted to take part in the competition for accelerated local transport with short stop sections with these vehicles. A control car was delivered at the same time as the railcars. The engine of the VT 137 074 was a so-called two-shaft engine, in which each cylinder side had its own crankshaft. These two crankshafts were led to a common outlet to the generator via a transmission gear.

After delivery, all vehicles were used in urban areas in western Germany in S-Bahn-like traffic, whereby important operating experience could be gained for the vehicles ordered later. All vehicles had engine problems in common. After a few years, the VT 137 074 received a 360 hp engine from Deutz . During the war they were initially shut down and gradually converted into mobile emergency power generators. After the war, seven vehicles each came to the Deutsche Bundesbahn and the Deutsche Reichsbahn .

Post war era

German Federal Railroad

The seven railcars that remained with the Deutsche Bundesbahn (including the VT 137 074, which was once equipped with the twin-shaft engine) were initially given a new drive unit and were renamed VT 32 002 (the former VT 137 074 ) and VT 33 204, 205, 207, 208, 211 and 212 used in the Bielefeld depot and in the Landau depot . VT 33 205 and 207 also received upholstered seats in third class. The VT 33 211 and 212 were leased to the High Commission with special equipment. The vehicles were in use until the 1960s and were then taken out of service.

German Reichsbahn

The Deutsche Reichsbahn used its vehicles in the Berlin area as well as in Stendal and Seddin , where they performed a wide variety of tasks. Two vehicles were used as saloon railcars for the Rbd Berlin. All vehicles received a new drive system from ČKD , and their interiors were modernized.

Five vehicles were added to the 185 series in 1970 for the introduction of the EDP number system . The VT 137 088 (new: 185 009) was in service the longest, until 1977. The VT 137 033 (new: 185 253) played a special role , which was used in 1975 for holiday accommodation with a driving trailer and was still available in 1991. At this point in time, the car no longer had a middle entry, it was scrapped in 1993. The VT 137 091 , which remained in France after the war and was still used by the SNCF under the vehicle number 2-XR 5301, played a special role . The further fate of the vehicle is unknown.

No vehicle has survived from the standard railcars with the Essen layout .

vehicle description

Compared to the DR 137 028 to 030 , which had a similar vehicle configuration, the vehicles had the other vehicle layout , the Essen layout . With this vehicle floor plan, all exterior doors except for the doors to the driver's cab were designed as sliding doors with the correspondingly lower handrails. At the middle end of the 3rd class large room there  were toilets with washing facilities and a boiler room. At each end there was a transition door for the transition to the sidecar for the train crew.

In principle, the machine system was designed like the DR 137 028 to 030 . The vehicles of the first and last series were equipped with the Maybach GO 5 diesel engine. Since this engine did not work reliably in the early days of diesel railcar use, the two-shaft engine MAN L2x6V 17.5 / 18 was installed in the DR 137 074 as a comparison variant , which performed slightly more. All vehicles received different drive units after the Second World War ; the vehicles that remained with the Deutsche Reichsbahn received the 12 V 170 DR from ČKD as new drive units , the VT 137 074 received the A 12 M 320 engine from Deutz as early as 1939 , and in 1963 the vehicle with the MB 836 engine from Daimler-Benz guided. the remaining VT 33.2 of the DB received exchange engines of the type GTO 56 after the war .

The railcars were equipped with a single control for operation with control cars. The connection was made from the VT to the VS via a 32-pin socket. The vehicle control was later converted to a multiple control. A route -dependent BBC safety driving circuit was available to monitor the train driver .

literature

• Heinz R. Kurz: "The railcars of the Reichsbahn-Bauarten" , EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1988, ISBN 3-88255-803-2 .
• Horst J. Obermayer: Paperback German Triebwagen , Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung W. Keller & Co., Stuttgart 1979, fourth edition, ISBN 3-440-04054-2 .

Web links

• Website about the existing VT 137 with Essen floor plan
• Website about the VT 33.2 at the Bielefeld Railway Friends
• Photograph of the VT 137 033 as a holiday accommodation on turntable-online

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} data sheet of the VT 137 033 at www.roter-brummer.de
2. ↑ Data sheet of the VT 137 074 at www.roter-Brummer.de
3. ↑ Website about the VT 33 on the website of the Bielefeld Railway Friends
4. ↑ Data sheet of the VT 137 088 at www.roter-Brummer.de
5. ↑ Photo of the VT 137 033 at www.roter-brummer.de
6. ↑ Data sheet of the VT 137 091 at www.roter-brummer.de
7. ↑ Heinz R. Kurz: "The railcars of the Reichsbahn-Bauarten" , EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1988, ISBN 3-88255-803-2 , p. 266.
8. ^ Heinz R. Kurz: "The railcars of the Reichsbahn-Bauarten" , EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1988, ISBN 3-88255-803-2 , p. 281.
9. ↑ Heinz R. Kurz: “The railcars of the Reichsbahn-Bauarten” , EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1988, ISBN 3-88255-803-2 , p. 283.
10. ^ Heinz R. Kurz: "The railcars of the Reichsbahn-Bauarten" , EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1988, ISBN 3-88255-803-2 , p. 291.
11. ↑ Heinz R. Kurz: “The railcars of the Reichsbahn-Bauarten” , EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1988, ISBN 3-88255-803-2 , p. 263.