Court procession of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
The court train of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha consisted of six saloon cars , which were built after Duke Alfred (1844–1900) had taken office in the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1893 .
history
Alfred loved to travel and had sufficient resources to be able to afford such a relatively extensive court train as the regent of such a small German federal state . The “domestic” Gothaer Waggonfabrik received the order to build the train . The first vehicles were delivered in 1896, and all were in service in 1898. The interiors were designed in a comparatively modern way, with only a few echoes of historicism - in stark contrast, for example, to the vehicles that Kaiser Wilhelm II commissioned for his court train at about the same time and later .
The wagons were given operating numbers 1 to 6 at the Royal Railway Directorate in Erfurt . After Duke Alfred's death, the operation of the train was probably too expensive for his nephew and successor, Duke Carl Eduard , at least he sold the vehicles to the Prussian State Railways , the five them to sleep , dining and lounge car for trains of the public transport had it rebuilt. The sixth car was converted into a track measuring car by the Van der Zypen & Charlier wagon factory .
In the spring of 1911, Duke Carl Eduard received a new saloon car from the Gothaer Waggonfabrik . It was a six-axle bogie car equipped with the latest technology with a saloon, two bedrooms, two sleeping compartments, a service compartment and three toilets.
literature
- Günter Walter: It started with a carousel . In: Eisenbahngeschichte 80 (February / March 2017). ISSN 1611-6283, pp. 78-84.