DSB SA 8
| DSB SA 8 / DSB S 8 | |
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 Salon car in the Odense Museum
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| Number: | 1 |
| Manufacturer: |
Scandia A / S , Randers Denmark
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| Year of construction (s): | 1900 |
| Retirement: | 1937 |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | 17.99 m |
| Length: | 16.76 m |
| Width: | 2.80 m |
| Trunnion Distance: | 12.20 m |
| Bogie axle base: | 2.10 m |
| Empty mass: | 38 t |
| Brake: | Air brake , vacuum brake |
| Seats: | 2 salon compartments, 2 sleeping compartments, 2 wet rooms |
The Danish DSB SA 8 was used as a saloon car for King Christian IX in 1900 . built by Scandia A / S in Randers . It is now in the Danish Railway Museum in Odense .
history
DSB SA 8
The car replaced the previous vehicle, the SA 1 / SJS Ra saloon car from 1871, which was technically obsolete.
In contrast to its predecessor, the new SA 8 saloon car was built in Denmark and put into operation on the king's birthday, April 8, 1900. It was equipped with all available technology, such as a double vacuum brake, compressed air brake, screw handbrake, and tiled stove. High pressure heater and hot water boiler, and could run in the standard gauge network of all railways on the European mainland.
DSB S 8
In 1903 the car was renamed DSB S 8 .
In 1914, the car received an alternator based on the Rosenberg system and individual batteries for the train lighting. In 1916 it was equipped for use in trains of the Prussian State Railways and in 1928 for use in German express trains. The vehicle received Swedish-Danish heating couplings and Swedish vacuum couplings in 1930.
The car was used by the Danish kings until 1937, when the car was stored in the saloon car hall in Hellerup. In 1939 it was retired and partially scrapped. The car body was used as a holiday home by an HFHJ employee in Hundested . In this condition it was taken over by the Railway Museum and brought to Østerport in 1961. It has been exhibited there since moving into the round shed of the former railway depot in Odense .
vehicle
The car body is made of wood, which is clad with sheet steel. In contrast to the previous vehicle, the entry platforms at both ends of the vehicle were now closed. Slightly more than one half of the car was taken up by two salons of the same size , which stretched over the entire width of the car and each had three window axes. The other rooms were located on an adjoining side corridor: a washroom with toilet, two compartments and at the end, accessible from the second boarding platform, another toilet. The two compartments were equipped as in 1st class sleeping cars at the time.
The outside of the car was painted in two colors and stood out from normal passenger cars : in the area of the window band and above it up to the roof, cream-colored, under the window band, the entrance doors and the front sides, burgundy-red. This paint was chosen based on the coat of arms colors, yellow and red, of the House of Oldenburg , from which the Danish kings descended.
commitment
The vehicle was built by King Christian IX., King Frederick VIII. And King Christian X used. When the king traveled, it usually happened with a special train in which the saloon car 8 was set as the "king's car". The saloon car always ran with the DSB EK 2250 baggage car as a protective car . Corresponding numbers of 1st or 2nd class passenger cars were placed on the train for the staff and any ministers who might be accompanying them. In addition, a generator car was used, which ensured that the train was always supplied with electricity and heated, even during longer stays.
literature
- Labeling on the object in the Danish Railway Museum in Odense [2019].
- CS: Statsbanernes nye Kongevogn . In: Ingenøren 18/1900, pp. 149-152.
- Poul Thestrup: Danske Kongevogne . Bane Boger, Roskilde 1992. ISBN 87 88632 39-3
Web links
- Information about the car on the website of the Danish Railway Museum, Odense; accessed on July 24, 2019
- Conventional salons gennem mere end 160 år. In: kongehuset.dk. October 17, 2018, accessed July 31, 2019 (Danish).
Remarks
- ↑ "SJS Ra" was the name from the commissioning of the vehicle by Det Sjællandske Jernbaneselskab (Zealand Railway Company). After it was nationalized in 1885, the vehicle was renamed "SA 1" in 1893 and "S 1" in 1903.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thestrup: Danske Kongevogne , p.39
- ↑ a b c d e f Thestrup: Danske Kongevogne , p. 37
- ↑ Labeling on the object
- ↑ DSB SA 8. In: jernbanen.dk. Retrieved July 28, 2019 (Danish).
- ↑ a b Thestrup: Danske Kongevogne , p. 41
- ↑ DSB S 8. In: jernbanen.dk. Retrieved July 28, 2019 (Danish).
- ↑ Thestrup: Danske Kongevogne , p 46
- ↑ Labeling on the object