DR 801 to 804

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DR 801-804
T 04 of the WEG in Vaihingen / Enz WEG (Oct. 2002)
T 04 of the WEG in Vaihingen / Enz WEG (Oct. 2002)
Numbering: DR : 801–804
DB: VT 70 900–901
DR : VT 803–804
WEG: T 03 – T 04
TWE: VT 03-VT 04
Number: 4th
Manufacturer: MAN , Wegmann
Year of construction (s): 1927
Type : A 1 dm, from 1957: Bo dm
Genre : CPvT-25b
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Length over buffers: 12,696 mm
Height: 4,050 mm
Width: 3,135 mm
Fixed wheelbase: 7,000 mm
Smallest bef. Radius: 150 m
Service mass: 23.9 t
Wheel set mass : 12.1 t
Top speed: 75 km / h, from 1950: 85 km / h
Installed capacity: originally 1 × 55 kW
from 1934 1 × 110 kW
from 1959 2 × 184 kW (150 PS)
from 1980 2 × 154 kW (210 PS)
Driving wheel diameter: 1000 mm
Impeller diameter: 1000 mm
Motor type: originally MAN
from 1959 Büssing
Motor type: Six-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine
Rated speed: 1500 rpm
Power transmission: mechanical
from 1927 Soden design
from 1934 Mylius design
from 1959 Voith -Diwabus gearbox
Tank capacity: 290 l
Brake: Compressed air brake type Knorr
Seats: 44, later 30
Floor height: 1,460 mm
Classes : 3.

The DR 801–804 multiple units were the first two-axle diesel multiple units built for the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) for passenger traffic on branch lines . Three vehicles have been preserved today at various locations and are among the oldest surviving combustion railcars .

history

The railcars were built by the Wegmann company, the engines came from MAN .

German Federal Railroad

Only two railcars that had been parked in Varel and Oldenburg in 1945 had come to the Deutsche Bundesbahn. In 1947 they were given the numbers VT 70 900 (801) and VT 70 901 (802). In 1949 they were used in Wuppertal, from 1950 in Bamberg and Coburg.

German Reichsbahn

The former DR 804 as a side car 190 851-6 in the historic locomotive shed in Wittenberge

The railcars 803 and 804 came to the Deutsche Reichsbahn. The DR 803 was parked in the RAW Dessau in 1960 and later converted into a stay car. After that, the vehicle was used as a team car at the Dresden bridge maintenance facility. It is no longer there today. The DR 804 was converted into a sidecar in 1950 and listed as VB 140 602. The middle entrance door was removed during the renovation. The car was first used by the Reichsbahndirektion Schwerin , from 1960 to 1975 on the Westprignitzer Kreisringbahn until it was shut down. In 1970 it was given the number 190 851. It was then retained as an office car for a construction train and was in the German Museum of Technology in Berlin from 1988 to 2019 .

At the end of December 2019, the wagons were transferred to the historic locomotive shed in Wittenberge . The vehicle there is probably the last surviving example of a vehicle from the Westprignitzer Kreisringbahn .

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VT 03 TWE on August 13, 2000 at the anniversary celebration "100 years of the Teutoburg Forest Railway" at the Gütersloh Nord station

In 1954 the Württembergische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (WEG) bought the two DB railcars. There they were given the numbers T 04 and T 03 and were converted into tow cars in 1957 . Newer engines were installed on various occasions, most recently two 210 hp engines. The car bodies were also rebuilt several times, the radiators were moved to the fronts, the window fronts were modernized, and the entry doors on the shorter side were replaced by wider folding doors for luggage. The railcars were used on the Reutlingen – Gönningen , Gaildorf – Untergröningen and Vaihingen – Enzweihingen routes .

The T 04 replaced the T 03 after its accident on the Vaihingen – Enzweihingen route. In 1989 it even received a radio remote control and in the last few years of its use - until the line was shut down at the end of 2002 - it was the oldest vehicle regularly used in passenger rail transport in Germany. In 2008 it was moved from its storage location in Neuffen to Bietigheim . An operational reconditioning has not been carried out until today.

TWE

The T 03 was badly damaged in an accident in 1975 and was therefore parked due to its age. It was sold in 1981 to the Deutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (DEG) for the Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn (TWE), where it was refurbished as the VT 03 and received two used 210 hp Büssing engines. In this condition, the TWE used the car for almost 25 years as a towing car, for various routes and excursions. Due to the high engine power and the robust car body, it could be used for the transport of up to five two-axle passenger cars. When the single -load traffic continued to decline after 2002, the traditional railway association based in Lengerich-Hohne took over the vehicle in 2009 to save it from being scrapped.

The VT 03 is still stationed in the Lengerich depot (Westphalia) and is maintained there by the Friends of the Railway Tradition for the museum rail traffic of the Teuto Express on the Ibbenbüren – Hövelhof railway line . After a long period of standstill, the Förderverein Eisenbahn-Tradition began in 2012 with the operational refurbishment, which was completed in 2017. The vehicle is intended for the long-established association at the Lengerich Railway Friends with a standard sidecar, trips as a tow car are still possible. It is equipped with GSM-R and PZB 90 for journeys on other DBAG routes .

Constructive features

The box frame, which was clad with sheet steel, was placed on four long beams made of St37 rolled profiles that were riveted together. The car bodies were beveled in the area of ​​the end entrances, and another entrance door was set back approximately in the middle of the car body. There were three side windows on the drive side and two windows on the other. There was a third class room with 16 seats and a fourth class room with 30 seats. There was a toilet in the third class room.

The radiators mounted on the roof at each end of the car were striking. The machinery was located in a support frame under the car body, which was supported on the wheelsets. The engines initially used had an output of only 75 hp, in 1934 more powerful six-cylinder engines with 150 hp were installed. A five-speed Soden transmission was installed as the transmission . A railcar, the 803, also received a hydraulic transmission during this conversion, which did not prove itself. Therefore, from 1934 onwards, all railcars in the series received the Mylius transmission .

literature

  • Horst J. Obermayer: Paperback German railcars . Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-440-04054-2 , p. 182 .
  • Merkbuch for the rail vehicles of the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DV 939) - III. Internal combustion engines. Edition 1952 . Alba, 1976, ISBN 3-87094-906-6 (reprint).
  • Hermann Bürnheim: Württemberg Railway Company. The story of an important private railway . 1st edition. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-613-01145-X , p. 28-31 .
  • Heinz R. Kurz: The railcars of the Reichsbahn types . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1988, ISBN 3-88255-803-2
  • Eisenbahn-Kurier 03/2015 "Tug rail car VT 03 back in service" EK-Verlag Freiburg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz R. Kurz: The railcars of the Reichsbahn types . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1988, ISBN 3-88255-803-2 , page 88
  2. ↑ a b Eisenbahn-Kurier 03/2020 "New vehicle entry in Wittenberge" EK-Verlag Freiburg, page 23
  3. ^ Eisenbahn-Kurier 03/2015 "Tug railcar VT 03 back in operation" EK-Verlag Freiburg, page 68
  4. ↑ Eisenbahn-Kurier 03/2015 "Tow railcar VT 03 back in service" EK-Verlag Freiburg, page 66
  5. ^ Website of the railway friends Lengerich
  6. ↑ Eisenbahn-Kurier 03/2015 "Tow railcar VT 03 back in service" EK-Verlag Freiburg, page 69
  7. ^ Günther Dietz: Diesel multiple unit for low traffic needs . In: railway magazine . No. 3 , 2020, p. 80 f .
  8. ↑ Eisenbahn-Kurier 03/2015 "Tow railcar VT 03 back in service" EK-Verlag Freiburg, page 67