DSB MP (1934)
| DSB MP | |
|---|---|
| Numbering: | MP 251–260, from 1941: MP 540–549 |
| Number: | 10 |
| Manufacturer: | Frichs , Denmark |
| Year of construction (s): | 1934 |
| Axis formula : | 3 '(Ao1Ao)' |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Length: | 20.93 m |
| Bogie axle base: | 13.80 m |
| Loading mass: | 1.6 t |
| Service mass: | 61 t |
| Top speed: | 120 km / h, later 90 km / h |
| Installed capacity: | 2 × 162 kW |
| Motor type: | 2 × Frichs 6715CA, 6 cylinders |
| Power transmission: | diesel-electric |
| Train heating: | Warm water heating with coke combustion |
| Coupling type: | Screw coupling |
| Seats: | 64, from 1953: 54 |
| Loading area: | 6 m 3 |
The vehicles of the DSB MP series were railcars that were built by the Danish machine works Frichs for the Danske Statsbaner (DSB).
history
In 1933 the State Railways commissioned the Frichs machine factory to build ten railcars, with the car bodies from Scandia A / S in Randers and the electrical equipment from Titan in Odense . The vehicles delivered in 1934 were built with 64 numbered seats and were given folding tables in 1938. They had a luggage compartment, a toilet and a driver's cab at each end . Both traction motors sat on the motor bogie.
Initially, four trains were stationed on Zealand and six in Jutland . On Zealand they used the Roskilde – Rungsted Kyst route.
When there were enough vehicles of the MO series available in 1935 , all trains were used in Jutland. Among other things, they drove fast city connections such as the Northern Piles from Hamburg via Flensburg and Aarhus to Frederikshavn from 1936 . These trains consisted of up to three MP and several intermediate cars, with each railcar having to be manned by a train driver due to the lack of multiple controls . These communicated with buzzer signals. The maximum train weight for a railcar was 140 tons.
In 1940 the railcars were parked because of the lack of fuel in World War II and from 1941 were designated MP 540-549. In 1953 an additional driver's compartment was built in, which meant that only 54 seats were available. At the same time, the top speed was reduced to 90 km / h and the gross vehicle weight was reduced to 80 tons.
The last operational area of the trains was the railway line Sønderborg – Mommark as well as various lines in the southern part of Funen , including the line Svendborg - Faaborg .
Whereabouts
The vehicles were taken out of service between 1964 and 1966. Six trains ( MP 541-543, 545, 546 and 549) were scrapped in the course of the following years. The drive systems of the four remaining trains were removed and the wagons were made available to vocational training facilities as mobile classrooms. Here, the red-brown vehicles were painted in a different color for the first time. The three cars of Jysk Teknologisk Institut (540, 547 and 548) turned blue / gray and the car of Teknologisk Institut København (544) turned dark green.
The motorless vehicles were listed as the category ZU. No. 544 was decommissioned in 1974 and then scrapped, 547 and 548 followed in 1985. The 540 car was finally taken out of service in 1988 and brought to Thisted as a teaching car. The car body was later sold and set up on the Thylejren (also Frøstruplejren ) festival site near Frøstrup in North Jutland, where it was still there in 2011.
License construction
A similar vehicle was procured in 1935 by Malmö – Ystads Järnväg (MYJ) in Sweden from Kockums in Malmö . The diesel-electric railcar was 21 meters long, rested on two bogies, weighed 44.2 tons and had 70 seats. The generators were powered by two 6-cylinder Frichs diesel engines that Kockums had built under license . When the MYJ was nationalized as part of the general nationalization of the railway on July 1, 1941, Statens Järnvägar (SJ) took over the train and classified it under the name SJ Xo5 20 . During the Second World War it was shut down due to lack of fuel. In the mid-1950s, SJ sold the railcar to Stockholm – Nynäs Järnväg (SNJ), where it was used as the SNJ Mv 30 . In 1963 it was converted into a snow plow and scrapped in 1969.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Description of the series at jernbanen.dk (Danish)
- Image of the MP 548 (2004)
- DSB MP at sebtus.de
