GHWE T9
| GHWE T9 | |
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 Double-deck rail bus
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| Numbering: |
GHWE : T9 Kleinbahn Wegenstedt – Calvörde T1 DR : 133 511 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Manufacturer: | Railway depot Haldensleben Haldensleben |
| Year of construction (s): | Original vehicle 1926, conversion 1937 |
| Retirement: | 1957 |
| Type : | 1A |
| Genre : | CiVT |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Length: | 8,130 mm |
| Width: | 2,270 mm |
| Total wheelbase: | 4,300 mm |
| Empty mass: | 7,000 kg |
| Top speed: | 40 km / h |
| Installed capacity: | 33 kW (45 PS) |
| Wheel diameter: | 1,035 mm |
| Motor type: | Wood gas drive |
| Seats: | 54 |
| Standing room: | 4th |
The GHWE T9 was a rail bus of the Gardelegen-Haldensleben-Weferlinger Eisenbahn . It was converted from an omnibus from Berlin in 1937 . The company's passenger traffic was handled with him and other vehicles. The vehicle was taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn after 1945 and classified as VT 133 511 . The rail bus was taken out of service around 1957.
history
The reason for the procurement of the rail bus was the inadequate financial position of the company, which could not afford new vehicles.
In the early 1930s, a total of nine double-decker buses were bought by the Berliner Verkehrsgesellschaft and converted into rail vehicles. In terms of their construction, these deviated considerably from the regulations for rail vehicles for small and branch lines. So had the vehicles
- No sprung draw- and buffing , but only a flapper and a towing hook for towing,
- no possibility for use in both directions of travel, only a reverse gear for 15 km / h speed, the vehicle had to be turned at the end stations,
- no wheels pressed onto the axles, but rather wheel disks attached with ball bearings,
- the wheels were assembled from ring parts and the wheel tires were mounted on them with countersunk screws.
The small railway department in Hanover felt overwhelmed by solving these tasks and called in the Reichsbahn-Zentralamt Berlin. The correspondence between the authorities mentioned dragged on for 13 months until the first rail bus was put into service on October 29, 1933. In the meantime, contentious issues such as the design of the wheels and axles and the brakes had been changed to typical railway constructions. A dead man's device as well as optical and acoustic signal devices have been added.
GHWE T9
The GHWE T9 was equipped with a wood gas drive. The rear roof on which the boiler of the wood gasifier was installed had to be changed to accommodate it. The upper deck was designed as a passenger compartment, which led to the obligation to provide evidence of the increased mass and the clearance profile . The rail bus consumed more fuel than a new multiple unit and was more difficult to operate compared to this.
The Gardelegen-Haldensleben-Weferlinger Eisenbahn uses the rail bus until GHWE No. 51 to 53 and GHWE No. 61 are acquired . The GHWE T9 was handed over to the Kleinbahn Wegenstedt – Calvörde in 1942 . In 1948 the GHWE demanded him back.
VT 133 511
It was designated as VT 133 511 by the Deutsche Reichsbahn . It was formally relocated to the Prenzlau depot , where it was retired in 1957. The scrapping date is not known.
literature
- Dirk Endisch: Small and private railways in the Ohrekreis , Verlag Dirk Endisch, Korntal-Münchingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-936893-12-0
- Andreas Knipping: The 6000 series of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . EK-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-88255-160-7 .
- Hans-Dieter Rammelt, Günther Fiebig, Erich Preuß: Small and private railway archive . Transpress Verlag Berlin, 1989, ISBN 3-344-00269-4 .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Hans-Dieter Rammelt, Günther Fiebig, Erich Preuss: Small and private railway archive . Transpress Verlag Berlin, 1989, ISBN 3-344-00269-4 . Page 236
- ↑ Andreas Knipping: The 6000 series of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . EK-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-88255-160-7 . Page 305