FRT ABe 8/8

SSIF / FRT / FART ABe 8/8
The SSIF ABe 8/8 No. 21 in Locarno
Numbering:	21-24
Number:	4th
Manufacturer:	SWP TIBB
Year of construction (s):	1959
Axis formula :	Bo'Bo'Bo'Bo '
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Length over buffers:	34000 mm
Service mass:	59 t
Friction mass:	59 t
Top speed:	60 km / h
Hourly output :	(976 PS)
Power system :	1200 V DC
Power transmission:	Overhead line
Train brake:	Compressed air
Coupling type:	Zp2 = central buffer with 2 screw couplings
Seats:	113

1959 received the Società delle Ferrovie Regionali Ticinesi ( FRT , former name of the FART ) together with the Società di imprese Subalpina Ferroviarie (SSIF) four electric articulated railcar type Abe 8/8 . Initially, railcars 21 and 22 belonged to the FRT / FART and railcars 23 and 24 to the SSIF. In 1982 FART sold its two railcars to the SSIF. Although the SSIF is a purely Italian company, it uses the Swiss type designations .

The four railcars were purchased for the international express trains between Locarno and Domodossola . They replaced the ABDe 4/4 . In 1959, the new railcars made it possible to shorten the travel time between Domodossola and Locarno to one hour and 40 minutes, an improvement of 20 minutes. In 1992, they were largely replaced by ABe 4/6 in the management of express trains .

The articulated multiple units were manufactured by Schindler Waggon in Pratteln, the electrical equipment was supplied by the BBC subsidiary Tecnomasio Italiano Brown Boveri (TIBB). The car body is divided into three parts and is supported under the box joint on a Jakobs bogie .

Railcar 22 was involved in two serious accidents. On August 13, 1967 it collided with the ABDe 4/4 18 and in October 1980 with the ABDe 4/4 12. The number 12 was therefore discarded.

The ABe 8/8 24 was put into operation in 2007 as a panorama multiple unit with a new box body. It serves as a reserve for the new SSIF panorama multiple units .

ABe 8/8 21 1959–1982 FART TICINO since 1982 SSIF ROMA	ABe 8/8 22 1959–1982 FART LEMANO since 1982 SSIF TICINO
The SSIF ABe 8/8 21 on July 21, 1986 in the then above-ground Locarno station	The ABe 8/8 22 still with the original lowered windows but already owned by SSIF in the former Locarno San Antonio station on July 21, 1986
ABe 8/8 23 since 1959 SSIF OSSOLA	ABe 8/8 24 since 1959 SSIF VIGEZZO
The ABe 8/8 23 on January 12, 2008 in what is now the underground train station in Locarno.	The ABe 8/8 24 converted into a panorama multiple unit on July 24, 2008 in Intragna as a replacement for one of the new trains. An ABe 4/6 followed the block spacing.

literature

• Alessandro Albé: The train from Locarno to Domodossola . Viganello 1988, page 117ff
• Peter Willen: Locomotives of Switzerland 2 , narrow-gauge traction units. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1972, no ISBN, page 138
• Peter Willen: Locomotives and multiple units of the Swiss Railways, Volume 4 Private Railways, Central, Southern and Eastern Switzerland . 1st edition. Orell Füssli 1983, ISBN 3-280-01301-1 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ FART Annual Report 1982, see file: FART1982GB.PDF
2. ↑ Swiss Railway Review 11/1992, p. 495.