GBS 2500 to 2669
| GBS 2500-2669 B 99/23 p |
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 Bw 2629 in the condition around 1910 in the historical
vehicle collection of the DTMB (2018) |
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| Numbering: | GBS 2500–2669 BSt 694–863 (until 1925) BSt 912 II –913 II , 2102–2259 Posen 407–408 |
| Number: | 170 sidecar |
| Manufacturer: | Herbrand |
| Year of construction (s): | 1898-1900 |
| Retirement: | until 1974 |
| Axis formula : | 2 × |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Length: | 7,300 mm (original) 8,930 (conversion 1923) |
| Fixed wheelbase: | 2,250 mm (original) 3,000 mm (conversion 1923) |
| Empty mass: | 5.7 t (Bw 912) 6.5 t (Bw 913) |
| Wheel diameter: | 817 mm |
| Brake: | Solenoid brake , hand brake |
| Operating mode: | Summer sidecar |
| Seats: | 24 |
| Standing room: | 41 |
| State 1928 | |
The sidecar of the series 2500 to 2669 came in 1897 at the Berlin Grand tram (GBS) and its successor companies used. It was the first large series of GBS sidecars that were procured for electrical operation. The vehicles were designed as summer cars and for operation during the warmer seasons. In 1934, the SNB saw two cars of this original 170 cars comprehensive series, which they called B 99/23 S classified . After 1943 the last cars in Poznan were taken out of service.
development
In 1896, the Great Berlin Horse Railway (GBPfE; since 1989 Great Berlin Tram) began electrifying its route network. The new railcars were able to attach one or two sidecars and were able to transport more passengers. Initially, the vehicles drove as a solo car, occasionally converted horse-drawn tram cars were attached. In 1897 GBS then procured 170 sidecars for summer operation. These vehicles had no windows, only grids were attached instead of the fenders. The wagons had two end entrances on the platforms on each side . The car body had four window openings on each side. The carriages had 24 seats in a 2 + 1 arrangement dos-à-dos and 41 standing places.
The operation with pure summer cars was not worthwhile, as the vehicles were parked in the depots in the cold half of the year. For this reason, GBS initially switched to designing cars with removable windows from 1903 onwards. These were called convertible cars . However, since the wagons had to go to the workshops twice for the installation and removal of the windows, this type of operation was not very promising either. The large summer-winter cars delivered from 1906 therefore had sliding windows. The summer cars and convertible cars were later adapted to these, but had fixed windows.
After the merger of the Great Berlin Tram with the Berlin Electric Trams and the trams of the City of Berlin to form the Berlin Tram, the summer cars were initially given the car numbers 694 to 863. In 1923, the 749 and 798 cars were given closed platforms, and around 1925 the Berlin tram operating company numbered they are converted into 912 II and 913 II . The remaining wagons were given the new wagon numbers 2102 to 2259. The ten remaining wagons were converted into the S5 II , S14, S19, S30, S58, S68 II , S72 and S79 salt cars .
Since the remaining cars with open platforms were among the oldest vehicles in the Berlin tram at the time, they were no longer converted. By the end of the 1920s, all of the cars except for the 912 II and 913 II trailer cars and the salt trucks had been decommissioned. From 1934, the two cars that remained in passenger traffic were given the designation B 99/23 S according to the BVG type code . In 1940 they were handed over to the Poznan tram as part of the Reich Services Act, where they were given car numbers 407 and 408. Their whereabouts are unknown. The salt trucks S5 II , S14 and S79 came when the BVG was separated from the BVG (east), the remaining eight trucks to the BVG (west). The BVG (West) work cars were taken out of service between 1959 and 1964, the S68 II was restored to its 1910 condition around 1963 and added to the BVG's historical vehicle collection. The vehicle has been in the Monument Hall depot of the German Museum of Technology since 1993 . Loren S5 II and S79 were given inventory numbers 729 504 and 729 519 when they were converted to the EDP numbering system. In 1974 they were scrapped.
literature
- Lothar Schwarz: Summer sidecar of the Great Berlin Tram . In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter . 8th year, no. 5 . Berlin 1981.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Lothar Schwarz: Summer sidecar of the great Berlin tram . In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter . No. 5 . Berlin 1981, p. 105-109 .
- ↑ The Berlin tram fleet. II. Sidecar . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . No. 11 , 1969, p. 192-199 .
- ↑ a b The work cars of the Berlin tram from 1920 . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . No. 6 , 1967, p. 78-113 .
- ↑ Marcel Götze: Salzlore (729502-729522). In: berlin-straba.de. Retrieved April 18, 2020 .