Ft 1101/1124
The train pair Ft 1101/1124 was the first direct connection with the status of a long-distance express train between Frankfurt am Main and France after the Second World War .
history
The connection was established for the winter timetable 1952/53. Contrary to German wishes, who wanted to demonstrate "normality" again after the Second World War and strive for international recognition of the Federal Republic of Germany , the Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF) did not set up a continuous connection to Paris . The train only went to and from Metz , on Sundays: Bar-le-Duc , where there was a direct connection to and from Paris. The journey time from Paris to Frankfurt was around eight and a half hours.
On the German side, the connection was classified as a long-distance express train . Since it was an international connection, the train ran 1st and 2nd class (of the old three-class system). The vehicles were initially one-piece diesel multiple units of the XD 2600 series , delivered by De Dietrich Ferroviaire to the Chemin de fer de l'Est in the 1930s , which were not very comfortable for a long-distance express train, e.g. B. had no facilities for catering for travelers. They also had no Indusi and its maximum speed was therefore limited to 100 km / h on the network of the German Federal Railroad (DB). The train driver was provided by SNCF and a pilot accompanied him on the DB network. The vehicle offered 16 1st class seats and 36 2nd class seats. The border control (police and customs control) between the Federal Republic of Germany and Saarland took place in Bruchmühlbach , the Saarland police and French border control in Saarbrücken Hauptbahnhof .
From the 1955 summer timetable, the new, more comfortable diesel multiple units of the X 2720 series with catering facilities were used, but the SNCF still refused to allow the train to Paris to run continuously. The route of the train, which initially ran via Bad Kreuznach , was later led via Worms and then transferred to the Riedbahn and via Mannheim , which shortened the journey time by 40 minutes. Since the class reform of 1956, the train has only carried the (new) 1st class.
Since the use of the train did not seem sufficient, it was converted into a Dt, i.e. an express train , in the summer of 1960 , which carried both classes. Here too, the SNCF provided the vehicles. In 1961 the connection was then replaced by the D 1110/1107, which now also connected Frankfurt and Paris directly with each other. A combination of vehicles from the VT 08 5 and VT 12 5 series was used for this purpose .
literature
- Peter Goette: Light F-Trains of the Deutsche Bundesbahn . Freiburg 2011. ISBN = 978-3-88255-729-9.
Remarks
- ↑ There was already a continuous express train between Frankfurt and Paris in day and night traffic: D 1111 / D 1114 and D 1115/1118 (see: Deutsche Bundesbahn : Official timetable. Western Germany. Summer timetable 20 May – 6 October. 1951, Bielefeld 1951). The travel time of the express trains was around 11 and 13 hours.