Falns

The Falns is a four-axle open bulk goods wagon that is used by numerous European railway companies . The wagons can be used in a variety of ways, especially for transporting bulk goods that are not sensitive to moisture, and were acquired by the then German Federal Railroad from 1987 onwards .

Falns wagons have two flaps on each side of the wagon that can be opened for unloading. The loaded bulk material then falls out downwards with the help of gravity . The flaps can be opened in different ways:

• mechanically; by operating a handwheel
• pneumatic; with compressed air cylinders, supplied by a locomotive or stationary compressed air generation
• hydraulic; with hydraulic cylinders, the necessary pressure is generated while driving with a wheelset hydraulic pump

VTG Falns, registered with the Dutch State Railways

literature

• Stefan Carstens: The freight wagons of DB AG: Numbers, facts, developments, photos . MIBA-Verlag, Nuremberg 1998, ISBN 3-86046-030-7 , pp. 80-83.
• Stefan Carstens: Freight wagons. Volume 4: Open wagons in a special design . MIBA-Verlag, Nuremberg 2003, ISBN 3-86046-073-0 , pp. 146-155.

Web links

Commons : Falns  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• dybas.de: Falns 121 ; Falns 183
• Freight wagon catalog of the Deutsche Bahn: Open bulk wagons

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bulk goods wagon. (pdf) txlogistik.eu, accessed on July 13, 2015 .