DR Glrhs
| DR Glrhs Dresden DB Glrhs 33 DR Glrhs 12 |
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| Year of construction (s): | 1937 |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | 12,800 mm |
| Total wheelbase: | 7000 mm |
| Loading mass: | 15 tons |
| Loading area: | 29.4 m² |
The two-axle covered, spacious freight car of the Glrhs Dresden wagon type was built in 1937 in a welded design for the Deutsche Reichsbahn . Although the first welded freight wagons were produced as early as 1933, it was not until 1936 that this type of wagon began to be changed from riveted to welded designs. In order to achieve greater efficiency in express freight transport , the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft started a test series with different types of wagons as early as 1934. The goal was to develop freight wagons for speeds higher than 65 km / h and some types of wagons with a higher loading weight for series production. By using different materials and manufacturing technologies, the best solution for the covered, spacious freight wagons was found and implemented around 1936.
Covered, spacious freight car
- Generic sign Glrhs, generic district Dresden
The first welded freight wagons with a loading area of 29.4 m² were the spacious wagons built in 1936 for the “Dresden” class with the “Glr” class. The “Glrhs Dresden” car type was a further development of this car and was only built as a high-speed freight car from 1937 onwards. They were designed as transfer cars for the transition to broad gauge, had a steam heating line and were approved for a cruising speed of 90 km / h. Equipped with nine-ply and 1,650 mm long suspension springs, an axle base of 7,000 mm, they had a load weight of 15 tons and a load capacity of 17.5 tons. These cars had a length over the buffers of 12,100 mm without a handbrake and 12,800 mm with a handbrake. The loading length was 10,7200 mm, the width 2,740 mm and the loading height 2,845 mm to the top of the roof. The loading volume up to the top of the roof was 79.1 m³ and up to the height of the side walls 62.3 m³. Their brakeman's cab was made of wood, with windows in the doors on both sides and the brake crank was inside with a crankcase made of sheet metal, and they were also equipped with a Hildebrandt-Knorr air brake for freight trains (Hikg brake). The superstructures were painted in RAL-8012 , the barrel roof in RAL-7009 and the trolley frame in RAL-9005 .
Covered, spacious freight car with front doors
- Generic symbol Gltrhs, generic district Dresden
These freight wagons, built in 1937, had the same dimensions as the Glrhs Dresden wagons, but had double-leaf doors on both ends and were therefore built without a handbrake. Their load capacity was limited to 15.75 tons. They were built for the transport of motor vehicles or bodies in order to be able to better protect them against the weather. Each side wall had three loading and ventilation openings as well as a sliding door with the dimensions of 2,000 mm by 2,000 mm; the height of the side walls was 2,120 mm. For a softer suspension, nine-layer suspension springs with a length of 1,800 mm were used, which were connected to the suspension brackets by means of rectangular hooks . (* DB: Gltmrhs 46; * DR: Gltrhs 13)
Based on the development results of these freight wagons of the Dresden class district, the war- type “Glmhs Leipzig” wagons were created in 1943 . The makeshift passenger car of the " MCi-43 series " was again created on the construction plans of this type of car .
- DB group symbol and type number from 1951
- DR in the GDR group mark and generic number from 1951
- Length over buffers with hand brake
See also
- Normalie - type of German freight wagons before 1910
- Association design freight cars - German freight cars from 1910
- Interchangeable freight cars - German freight cars from 1927
- Overview of freight car types up to 1945
Literature and Sources
- Deutsche Reichsbahn: The standard design freight cars. Reichsbahn-Zentralamt Berlin, Dezernat 28, Berlin 1945.
- Gottfried Köhler, Heinz Menzel: freight car manual. Transpress VEB publishing house for transport, Berlin 1966.
- Helmut Behrends, Wolfgang Hensel, Gerhard Wiedau: Güterwagen-Archiv Volume 1.Transpress VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1989.
- Stefan Carstens, Rudolf Ossig: Freight Cars Volume 1, Covered Cars. MIBA-Verlag, Nuremberg 2000.
- WHO: The Reichsbahn freight cars. Reichsbahn advertising office for passenger and freight traffic, Berlin 1939.
- Wolfgang Diener: Painting and designation of freight cars. Publishing house Dr. Bernhard Abend, Stuttgart 1992.