DR 137 058… 079

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DR 137 058-067 and 075-079
" Standard multiple units with express train car layout "
VT 137 064
numbering DR : 137 058-067
DB VT 33 106
from 1970:
DR 185 003-007		 DR : 137 075-079
Manufacturer Wismar wagon factory
Years of construction 1934 1935
Retirement until 1977 until 1945
number 10 5
design type Bo'2 'de
genus BC4ivT
Gauge 1,435 mm
smallest traveled radius 140 m
Top speed 110 km / h
Length over buffers 21,873 mm
length 20,633 mm
Total wheelbase 17,470 mm
Wheel diameter 900 mm
Bogie wheelbase MD: 3,500 mm
TD: 3,000 mm
Pivot spacing 14,270 mm
Service mass empty 41,800 kg
occupied 49,300 kg		 empty 42,000 kg
occupied 49,500 kg
Brakes Air brakes of the Hildebrandt-Knorr type
Parking brake Handbrake
Installed capacity 302 kW (410 hp)
Engine type Originally Maybach GO 5
after conversion ČKD 12 V 170 DR
Engine type Twelve-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine
Tank capacity 990 l
Power transmission electric
Seats 71 + 4 folding seats
Standing room 44
Floor height 1,240 mm
Classes 2nd / 3rd

The railcars 137 058 to 067 and 137 075 to 079 are a series of railcars that were originally built with 302 kW of power for the Deutsche Reichsbahn as a standard railcar with an express train car layout. Fifteen copies of the DR 137 028 to 030 were produced by the Wismar wagon factory . One vehicle came to the Deutsche Bundesbahn after 1945 and was designated there as the VT 33 106 . Five vehicles were in service with the Deutsche Reichsbahn until the mid-1970s and were given the designation 185 003–007 . One vehicle has been preserved as a railway service vehicle.

history

Reichsbahn time

Route network of the routes driven by the standard railcars

In addition to the express railcars , the flying trains , the 302 kW railcars with sidecars determined the image of the modern Reichsbahn in the 1930s. This intensified when entire regions such as the Ruhr area and the Dresden area were converted to railcar operation.

The vehicles with express train car layout were specially procured for the Ruhr express traffic and traffic in the Dresden area in 1934 and 1935. They were manufactured in two series, which differed slightly in terms of the vehicle layout, power control and electrical equipment. For them, a special was driving trailer type with the type 145 and a large number of sidecar obtained, which allowed the formation of railcars.

After the vehicles were accepted, they were used by RBD Dresden, Mainz and Saarbrücken in passenger and express train operations, where they proved their worth. When used in the Ruhr express traffic with a rigid timetable , they did not fully prove themselves. When the war began, the vehicles were initially shut down. The railcars of the second series went to the Navy as emergency power units and were completely retired in 1945. Eight vehicles of the first series survived the war, seven of which were added to the inventory of the Deutsche Reichsbahn and one to the inventory of the Deutsche Bundesbahn. Two vehicles of the first series were retired in 1945.

Post war era

Railcar in 1964 at Hirschfelde station

The 137 066 was put into operation at the Deutsche Bundesbahn as VT 33 106 and served there at the railway depot in Frankfurt / M 1 , Hamburg-Altona , Flensburg and Bielefeld until it was shut down in 1964.

The remaining vehicles of the Deutsche Reichsbahn were housed in the Dresden-Pieschen depot. They drove the express trains to Zittau and Karl-Marx-Stadt , which were formed by railcar trains consisting of two railcars and three trailer cars. When climbing out of the Elbe valley , the train was supported by a sliding locomotive.

Railcar 137 063 of the Railcar Museum Dessau 2019 at the open day in the Dessau repair shop

Five vehicles were redesignated in 1970 with the introduction of the EDP number system in the 185.0 series. At that time the railcars 185 004 and 007 were used in the work train service and served the shuttle service from Bad Schandau to Děčín . They were retired by 1977. Some vehicles were still used for some time as lounges, the 185 004 was dismantled in 1992 in the Dresden-Friedrichstadt depot.

The VT 137 063 was available as a measuring railcar in Berlin-Schöneweide with the designation 723 101-2 until 1997 . In 1958 it was converted to the VT 137 700 catenary measuring car (from 1970: 188 101). After years of storage in Berlin, it ended up in the Dessau Railcar Museum . There is also a surviving sidecar with the inventory number VB 145 027.

Constructive features

The railcars were built by the same manufacturer two years after the DR 137 028 to 030 series . The dimensions and the vehicle layout are almost identical. Deviations result from the weight of the vehicles.

The vehicles were manufactured according to the principles of lightweight construction and completely welded. The underframe consisted of the two longitudinal beams and Z-profiles placed one on top of the other , the two pivot cross members made of U-profiles and sheet metal. The car body was a construction made of rolled sections and corresponded in equipment and structure to that of the DR 137 028 to 030 .

The small passenger compartment contained the 2nd class with 16 seats, the larger the 3rd class with 55 seats. The cars had a central aisle. Between the compartments there was a toilet, a boiler room with a stove and a fuel store. The outer doors to the entry areas and the side doors to the driver's cabs were revolving doors and opened inward, revolving doors opening outward were the front transition doors and the double-sided doors of the luggage compartment. The bogies were of the Görlitz design and differed. The motor bogies with the electric traction motors had an axle base of 3,000 mm, the machine bogies 3,500 mm. The bogies of the first series had an off-center pivot in the machine bogie, while the second series had a central pivot.

The engine was originally the Maybach GO 5 , the electrical equipment of the two series differed in terms of the output values. All parts of the electrical equipment were supplied by Siemens-Schuckertwerke . The engine was mounted in the machine bogie and protruded into the front driver's cab, where it was covered with a double hood made of sheet metal and asbestos inlay . The engines of the vehicles taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn were replaced by the 12 V 170 DR from ČKD , which also had 302 kW of power. The engine was started by the main generator.

The vehicles of both series differ in their control. Those of the first series had a single control with a 27-pin junction box, the second a multiple control with a 32-pin junction box. In the course of a major repair, all vehicles received the same multiple control. They were also equipped with an emergency control system, so if the diesel engine generator unit failed, the railcar could evacuate the route with battery power.

literature

  • Heinz R. Kurz: The railcars of the Reichsbahn types. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1988, ISBN 3-88255-803-2

See also

Web links

Commons : DR series VT 137 058-079  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b data sheet of the VT 137 063 at www.roter-brummer.de
  2. ↑ a b Heinz R. Kurz: The railcars of the Reichsbahn types. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1988, ISBN 3-88255-803-2 , page 273
  3. ↑ Heinz R. Kurz: The railcars of the Reichsbahn types. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1988, ISBN 3-88255-803-2 , page 276
  4. ↑ Data sheet of the VT 137 079 at www.roter-brummer.de
  5. ↑ Data sheet of the VT 137 064 at www.roter-brummer.de
  6. ↑ a b data sheet of the VT 137 066 at www.roter-brummer.de
  7. ↑ Data sheet of the VT 137 059 at www.roter-brummer.de
  8. ↑ Data sheet of the VT 137 060 at www.roter-brummer.de
  9. ^ Photo of the VT 137 063 as a contact line measuring vehicle
  10. ↑ Heinz R. Kurz: The railcars of the Reichsbahn types. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1988, ISBN 3-88255-803-2 , page 272