DR Salon dining car 10241
| Salon dining car 10 241 Bln | |
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 Salon des 10 241 today: design from 1964
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| Numbering: | 10 241 Bln (1937) |
| Number: | 4th |
| Manufacturer: | Wagenbauanstalt Wegmann & Co. |
| Year of construction (s): | 1937 |
| Axis formula : | 2 × Görlitz type bogies, Minden-Deutz bogies since 1960 |
| Genre : | SalonR4ü-37 |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | 23,000 mm |
| Service mass: | 63.7 t |
| Top speed: | 140 km / h |
| Seats: | 2 dining compartments, 2 kitchens (delivery status) |
The salon dining car 10241 of the Deutsche Reichsbahn was one of four identical vehicles that were built in 1937 by Wagenbauanstalt Wegmann & Co. for the special trains of the top officials of the Third Reich . This salon dining car was used by Hermann Göring in the special train with the code name “Asia” .
description
Delivery status
The salon dining car 10241 is a Schürzenwagen , modeled in the style of the late 1930s, modern Schnellzugwagen Deutsche Reichsbahn for international traffic.
At both ends the vehicle has vestibules for entry. The two dining compartments took up more than half of the vehicle. They were each equipped with a table placed in the longitudinal direction of the car , with the outer dining room 10 and the inner 14 seats. The partition could also be removed to create a large dining area. The rest of the space in the vehicle was taken up by two kitchens with a side corridor leading to the second entrance hall. The dining rooms and side corridor were lavishly designed with precious woods, while the kitchen was made with white painted sheet metal. When Goering's train was parked in tunnels because of the threat of air raids , the Reichsmarschall felt annoyed by the smoke from the coal stove in the kitchen. In 1941 an electric furnace was therefore installed.
Conversions
During the renovation in 1947 for the British occupying forces , the larger, inner dining room and the adjoining inner kitchen were expanded. A number of compartments were built in here: two standard sleeping car compartments, a large compartment that extended over two window axes, with a bed in the longitudinal direction of the car, armchair and side table as well as a small desk with a second armchair and an adjoining bathroom with bathtub and toilet . This was followed by a toilet accessible from the corridor, as well as a compartment with sleeping car standard but its own toilet. The outside kitchen was retained.
The German Federal Railroad undertook the alterations requested by the Office of the Federal President . Above all, this included the fact that the large compartment, extending over two window axes, was replaced by two two-bed sleeping compartments. In 1960, the old were bogies of type Görlitz by such the type Minden-Deutz replaced.
commitment
Reichsbahn time
The car was initially based in Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof . It was hired as a personal dining car for Hermann Göring and ran on his “Asia” train until 1942. Then it ran for a while in preference to this train and also on the special train of the Chief of the Air Force's General Staff . In 1945 the vehicle was parked in Potsdam and was brought to West Germany at the end of the war. Here it was confiscated by the British occupying forces, stationed in Bielefeld and - since it had only suffered slight damage - used until 1946, then parked for a renovation. It was initially intended for Brigadier General John Charles Oakes Marriott , but was then assigned to the General of the British Army of Occupation in charge of the railways and returned to the Deutsche Bundesbahn in 1951.
German Federal Railroad
The Deutsche Bundesbahn classified the vehicle as an escort car for the Federal President's saloon car and relocated it to Cologne. The - museum - outside lettering of the vehicle reflects this use today. The Chancellor was also allowed to use the car because a radio system was provisionally set up in the third compartment .
In 1962 Charles de Gaulle traveled with the saloon car and he was part of the special train that Chancellor Willy Brandt took to the Erfurt summit meeting with Willi Stoph on March 21, 1970 . After 1975 the car was rarely used. However, he was on Queen Elisabeth II's special train on her state visit to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1978.
Company number
The vehicle was renamed numerous times:
| number | annotation |
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| 10 241 Bln | 1937-1945 |
| 10 241 Han | 1946-1950 |
| 10 241 ess | 1950 |
| 10 241 Dor | 1950-1952 |
| 10 241 Cologne | 1952-1966 |
| 10 341 Köl Salüg (e) | 1966 |
| 51 80 89-40 341-5, WGSüg (e) | 1966 |
Museum object
The car was probably retired in 1978. Then it came into the holdings of the Nuremberg Transport Museum , which assigned it to its branch in Koblenz . The decisive factor for inclusion in the collection was its use as the Federal President's saloon car.
literature
- Walter Haberling: Reichsbahn saloon car. Types and uses during the Reichsbahn and Bundesbahn times . Freiburg 2010. ISBN 978-3-88255-679-7 , pp. 191ff.
- Description on the object in the DB Museum Koblenz .
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ The other cars were: 10 243, 10 245 and 10 246.
- ^ So the blueprint (Haberling, p. 191). A company photo shown by Haberling, on the other hand, shows 2 + 4 seating (Haberling, Fig. 356).