Egger Railway

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typical Egger light rail locomotive

Egger (Egger-Bahn) was a model railway manufacturer from Munich .

history

Egger Railway until 1967

Egger-Bahn small train locomotive "Feuriger Elias" OEG 102

The company was founded in 1963 by three siblings of the Egger family, the management was shared shortly afterwards by the technician Theodor Egger and the businessman Johann Egger, while the third family member withdrew from the company. In 1964, Constantin Film took a stake in the company as an investor and also had an influence on the products: From then on, Western train models based on the Old Shatterhand / Winnetou films of that time were also produced, which were unsuccessful. In 1967 the company was dissolved again, and the remaining inventory and production facilities were sold to the French model railway manufacturer Jouef .

The expansion of the range to include models of the Zillertal Railway, presented at the Nuremberg Toy Fair in 1967 , was no longer produced due to a lack of financial means. Later these models were revised accordingly by the Austrian model railway manufacturer Liliput and have been manufactured since then.

Jouef from 1967 to 1994

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After taking over Egger-Bahn, Jouef continued production practically unchanged until 1971. The corresponding products were sold until 1973.

In 1983 the forms of production were rediscovered. From 1985 to 1994 some revised vehicle models (distinguishable from the older edition by the gray instead of blue packaging box) as well as individual additional newly designed vehicle models were manufactured. At that time, the then owner of Jouef, the French toys and games group CEJI, had to file for bankruptcy. Jouef did not resume the production of model railways in the H0e gauge under the later owners, the Lima Group, then Hornby .

Egger-Bahn from 2003

In 2003, Theodor Egger from Switzerland and Ruud Wittekoek from the Netherlands started again and reactivated the brand name and the distribution rights. To date, numerous new models have appeared in a significantly improved type of construction, including accessories (turntable) and individually available newly designed trolleys with bell -armature motors, with which the earlier Egger Bahn locomotives can be converted to achieve realistic driving characteristics (low speed typical of the light railways).

Products

Narrow gauge railroad models

The light rail and small railroad models from Egger run on tracks with the model gauge H0e, which means that they are replicas of narrow-gauge vehicles in the nominal size H0 , i.e. on a scale of 1:87. The model gauge H0e has a track spacing of 9 mm, so that narrow-gauge railways with model gauge of 750 or 760 mm can be represented approximately.

Electronics experiment system Lectron

Construction of a " tilting stage " with the Egger Lectron

From 1966 the product range was expanded to include the “Lectron” electronic experimentation system. The experimental system was offered by the developer Georg Franz Greger together with Egger-Bahn GmbH under the name "Egger Lectron" from 1966 to 1967. The Lectron system was first presented in spring 1966 at the Nuremberg Toy Fair. In the autumn of 1966 Georg Greger received first prize for design at the Electronica in Munich. At the end of 1967, Egger-Bahn GmbH was dissolved and Lectron was taken over by Braun AG .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the model railway manufacturer Egger
  2. ↑ Timeline of the Egger Bahn story
  3. ↑ RTR Industrial Narrow Gauge Part 4-Eggerbarn . In: Narrow Gauge and Industrial Railway Modeling Review . 98, April 2014, ISSN  0958-0808 , pp. 71-76.
  4. ↑ LOKI 9/2013 category model railway history article 50 years Egger railway

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