FEVE 2300
The 2300 series is a narrow-gauge diesel multiple unit operated by the Spanish railway company Ferrocarriles de Vía Estrecha ( FEVE ).
prehistory
Due to the outcome of the Spanish Civil War and the resulting Francoist dictatorship , Spain's import options were severely limited. For example, no rail vehicles could be acquired from neighboring France . The historical connection with Germany, which had supported the right-wing putschists under General Francisco Franco , made it possible to commission railcars there.
In 1954 the Spanish state railway Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles (RENFE) acquired a three-part train consisting of a twin-engine diesel engine and two sidecars from the Uerdingen wagon factory for its broad-gauge network (gauge 1676 millimeters) . From 1962 to 1964, Uerdingen supplied RENFE with 30 articulated multiple units with bellows transitions based on the DB class VT 98 , which were classified as the RENFE class 591 . 30 structurally identical trains were built under license in local production . The vehicles had two under-floor mounted Bussing - diesel engines of the type U 10 and a mechanical six-speed gearbox , which by the ZF Friedrichshafen AG was delivered.
German constructions were also used for the meter gauge network . In 1957, Ferrostaal delivered class 2000 railcars and associated trailer cars.
History and description
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In 1965 this was followed by an order from Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg (MAN) for 20 meter-gauge single-engine diesel railcars for FEVE, the exterior of which was based on the Ferrostaal cars. They were delivered the following year and designated as the 2300 series. Up to 1968, Euskalduna , Material Móvil y Construcciones (MMC) and Aplicaciones Técnicas Industriales built a further 49 motorized vehicles and 26 sidecars under license . The six-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine in the railcars had an output of 210 hp , and the power was transmitted hydrodynamically via a Diwa 501 US gearbox . This enabled a top speed of 80 km / h to be achieved. The passenger compartment was divided into three compartments and had 60 seats. The vehicles were painted in two shades of green in accordance with the colors of the Explotación de Ferrocarriles por el Estado (EFE), the predecessor of the FEVE.
The FEVE initially received 26 multiple units and 20 trailer cars, which were given the road numbers 2301 to 2316 and 5301 to 5320, respectively. They were mainly intended for use on the main line Santander - Bilbao and its branches, as well as the railway from Málaga to Fuengirola . The Compañía de los Ferrocarriles Económicos de Asturias , which was absorbed into the FEVE in the 1980s, received four powered vehicles (MZ 1 to MZ 4) and two sidecars (RAY 1 and RAY 2). Eight railcars (MC 20 to MC 27) and four trailer cars (RAC 1 to RAC 4) went to the Compañía del Ferrocarril Cantábrico , another 20 railcars (3101 to 3120) to the Ferrocarriles Catalanes , where they were designated as the 3000 series. In 1973, 84 railcars of this type finally ran on the Spanish meter-gauge railways.
The first vehicles were painted in FEVE's bright blue as early as the late 1960s. In 1972 FEVE took over the Cantabrian and Asturian networks and their vehicles. In 1973 it had 73 class 2300 railcars, which replaced older vehicles from the French companies Billard and Brissonneau et Lotz in the 1970s . The sidecar 5314 and 5316 were at that time a post compartment and a compartment of the first car class .
At the beginning of the 1980s, the first conversion of the railcars began, they received engines from Pegaso and a new interior. 66 of them were permanently coupled to 33 units, e.g. B. Car 2339 with Car 2356. Only seven railcars remained as single vehicles. The livery of the vehicles was changed to cream, with longitudinal stripes of different colors below the ribbon windows depending on the area of use. The MAN lettering on the front of the driving car has been removed and partially replaced by the three-letter abbreviation BWE ( Babcock-Wilcox Española ). All 26 sidecars were converted into passenger coaches .
The vehicles, now largely in service as double multiple units, ceded important traffic to the younger 2400 series , but replaced old vehicles, among other things. a. those from Ferrostaal on Mallorca . In January 1987, the FEVE gave eight units to the Ferrocarriles de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV), in 1994 three more units and two individual railcars to the Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca (SFM). FEVE lost a double railcar in an accident in a tunnel in Vega de Anzo in 1994 . The Mallorca vehicles were sold to Servicios Ferroviarios del Chaco in Argentina in 1997 .
Since the Pegaso engines failed to prove themselves, they were soon replaced by Volvo's 220 hp engines . Further improvements were made, for example FEVE had disc brakes installed in its railcars and began to paint the car bodies white and yellow. At the end of 1998 the decision was made to completely convert one of the units. This subsequently also happened with the other FEVE railcars: including a sidecar, twelve diesel double railcars were created, which formed the new 2600 series , and twelve electric double railcars that became the 3600 series .
Using four Ferrostaal railcars, which were converted to non-motorized trailer cars, four three-car multiple units consisting of two multiple units and one intermediate car were built between 1984 and 1988 for the Ferrocarriles Catalanes from their class 3000 multiple units. The white and orange painted vehicles received new bogies in 1990 and new MAN engines in 1993. In 1997 two of these trains were handed over to the FGV. The other two later went to FEVE, where they were painted in white, blue and yellow as the 2350 series between Baiña and Collanzo . In March 2013 they were resold to Peru .
The eight double railcars that FEVE handed over to FGV in 1987 were used on the route from Alicante to Dénia . Six of them were largely adapted to the FEVE series 2600 during a conversion, but kept their MAN engines and ran from then on as the series 2500 on the route from Benidorm to Calp . Four of these trains were still in use in 2017. Of the units that had not been converted, one (2311/2312) remained in operation, the other was used as a spare part dispenser.
Web links
- Crónicas de la vía estrecha (XIX): Lot MAN, eternamente (FEVE 2301-2373 y FGC 3001-3011)
- FEVE series 2300
- FEVE series 2600 , conversion from the series 2300
- FEVE 3600 series , conversion from the 2300 series
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Crónicas de la vía estrecha (XIX): Los MAN, eternamente (FEVE 2301-2373 y FGC 3001-3011) , accessed on May 24, 2019