Baggage car

Pre-war baggage car of the DB

Luggage car prototype Dyl ^{961 of} the DB

A baggage car or baggage car is a rail car used to transport luggage . It contains one or more luggage compartments with large loading doors (e.g. sliding doors , folding doors or roller doors ) and usually a service compartment for the train crew . Many luggage trolleys are equipped as side aisle cars with an aisle next to the luggage compartment, so that they can be lined up anywhere in the train and the possibility of walking through the train is retained .

use

The driver had his mobile office in the baggage car. Illustration by Cili Ringgenberg , around 1945

Baggage car Dmsz of the ÖBB

Baggage car EW II of the SBB

Baggage car MC 76 (ex SNCF) of the SBB

Belgian Dms baggage trolley with roller doors as loading openings and in Eurofima C1 paintwork, pure orange-light gray

Vienna light rail car designed as a half-luggage car

With classic luggage transport, the luggage is delivered to the luggage counter in a train station , loaded by the staff and can be picked up at the luggage counter at another train station. Many railways no longer offer this service; it can still be found in Switzerland . After luggage transport was discontinued, the luggage trolleys were mostly used for transporting bicycles and some of them were adapted accordingly.

The luggage can also be loaded by the traveler ; This is mostly the case when taking bicycles with you .

There are also half luggage trolleys that also have other areas (for example, seats for travelers). In railcars in particular, there is usually less than one car available for luggage. Modern local transport vehicles are often equipped with a multi-purpose area in which bicycles, strollers , other loads and travelers in wheelchairs can be accommodated. To distinguish it from a half baggage cart, a regular baggage cart is sometimes also called a full baggage cart .

Luggage wagons are mainly used in passenger trains, but there was also the transport of luggage in separate trains (overnight) and freight train escort wagons in which the staff accompanying freight trains rode.

Up until the middle of the 20th century, baggage cars were mostly running directly behind the locomotive for safety reasons ; today they are usually lined up at the Zugspitze or at the rear of the train, but there are also trains with baggage cars in the middle.

Development in Germany

State railway types

Overview of the Prussian designs

In Prussia, own sample drawings for passenger and freight train luggage wagons were created in the “Standardien für Betriebsmittel von 1883/84”. In the standard parts of 1879, there were no such sample drawings for baggage carts. At that time only the general building principles were laid down. Baggage trolleys for local passenger trains were to be designed with two axles and an axle base of 5.0 meters, while three-axle trolleys with an axle base of 6.5 meters were intended for longer distances. Two-axle baggage cars with an axle base of 4.0 meters were proposed for freight trains.

The driver's compartment must be accessible from the end walls via a platform and give the driver the opportunity to see the train from this compartment. All baggage cars were also provided with a running board extending over the entire length of the car.

Sample sheet	genus	DRG sketch	First year of construction	number	operational art	Abortions	LüP [m]	axes	Wheel base [m]	Remarks
Designs based on the standards of 1883/84
IIa 1	P3i	P3i Pr 83	1883	about 800	P		11,300	3	6,500 + 3,250	one-sided transition platform, service compartment with a raised driver's cab
IIa 2 ^I	pi	Pi Pr 83	1883	about 600	P		10,300	2	5,000	one-sided transition platform, service compartment with a raised driver's cab
IIa 2 ^II	pi	Pi Pr 83	1883	about 600	P	1	10,300	2	5,000	one-sided transition platform, service compartment with raised driver's pulpit, variant with built-in toilet in accordance with sample sheet IIa 4
IIa 3 ^I	Pgi	Pgi Pr 83	1883		G		8,500	2	4,000	one-sided transition platform, service compartment with a raised driver's cab
IIa 3 ^II	Pgi	Pgi Pr 83	1883		G	1	8,500	2	4,000	one-sided transition platform, service compartment with raised driver's pulpit, variant with built-in toilet in accordance with sample sheet IIa 4

↑ “P” stands for passenger and “G” for freight train luggage wagons

Overview of the Bavarian designs

Even with the Bavarian types of baggage cars, there is a direct distinction between those for passenger trains and those for freight trains. And the Bavarian standard parts for wagon construction are also based on the specifications and recommendations of the technical committees of the VDEW.

Sample sheet WV 1897	Sample sheet WV 1913	genus	DRG sketch	First year of construction	number	operational art	Abortions	LüP [m]	axes	Wheel base [m]	Remarks
Types from the takeover of the former BOB
135	238	P.	P bay 58	1858	approx. 30	G		7.390	2	3,500	Service compartment with a raised driver's cab
135	238	P.	P bay 61	1861	approx. 20	G		7.390	2	3,500	Service compartment with a raised driver's cab
128	216	P.	P bay 73	1873	approx. 16	P		8,414	2	4,000	Service compartment with a raised driver's cab
own designs of the K.Bay.Sts.B.
127	219	P2	P bay 61	1861	approx. 16	P		8,414	2	4,000	Service compartment with a raised driver's cab
129 ^I.	215	P2	P bay 73	1873	about 80	P	1	8,464	2	3,650	with driver's cab
129 ^II	215	P2	P bay 73	1873	about 110	P	1	8,464	2	4,370	with driver's cab

↑ “P” stands for passenger and “G” for freight train luggage wagons

Standard designs

Makeshift truck

The makeshift baggage cars of the Deutsche Bundesbahn , which were built from makeshift passenger cars of the MCi-43 series , represented a special design . These 23-meter-long wagons determined DB's travel and express freight traffic until the 1990s . In the founding years of the Federal Republic of Germany, it was not possible to build new luggage trolleys for reasons of cost. That is why the wagon factories put two car bodies from makeshift passenger cars in freight car design on a new floor frame. These wagons were used as the MPw4ie-50 (later Mie ⁹⁹⁶ ) makeshift van . The first series comprised 100 vehicles. Most of the cars ran on American gooseneck bogies . From 1957 these cars were refined. In addition to the installation of closed car transitions with rubber bulges , the cargo space was equipped with a service compartment. A total of 173 MPw-4yge cars (later MDyge ⁹⁸⁶ ) were built. Most of the MDie ⁹⁹⁶ have been converted to MDyge ⁹⁸⁶ . The side paneling was different, at the beginning with wooden slats, similar folding doors and low windows, later with wooden panel walls, folding doors made of metal and higher, but narrower windows. They were clad with sheet steel during revisions, following the example of modern freight cars. Some cars were approved for 140 km / h and could be used in express trains and fast mail trains. The last copies were not taken out of service until the early 1990s.

After the end of the passenger train service, many makeshift baggage vehicles continued to be used as auxiliary train vehicles .

From the 1950s onwards, luggage and half-luggage wagons of the UIC type X of the types Dyl ⁹⁰¹ , Dms ⁹⁰² and ⁹⁰⁵ , BDms ²⁷² and ²⁷³ (names from around 1976) were in use on the Deutsche Bundesbahn.

literature

Standard parts for equipment of the Prussian State Railways . Berlin 1878
Memo book for the vehicles of the Reichsbahn . Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft, Reichsbahn-Zentralamt, Berlin 1928.

Web links

Wiktionary: Baggage vehicle - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

[1] “P” stands for passenger and “G” for freight train luggage wagons

[2] “P” stands for passenger and “G” for freight train luggage wagons