HzL VT3
| Hohenzollerische Landesbahn VT3 | |
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| Numbering: | HzL VT3 |
| Manufacturer: | WUMAG Görlitz |
| Year of construction (s): | 1936 |
| Retirement: | 1968 after an accident |
| Axis formula : | (1A) (A1) |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | 21,940 mm |
| Length: | 20880 mm |
| Width: | 2,925 mm |
| Trunnion Distance: | 14,500 mm |
| Bogie axle base: | 3,000 mm |
| Total wheelbase: | 17,500 mm |
| Service mass: | 34,000 kg |
| Top speed: | 70 km / h |
| Installed capacity: | 2 × 110.4 kW (2 × 150 PS) from 1962 2 × 132.5 kW (2 × 180 PS) |
| Wheel diameter: | 900 mm |
| Motor type: | 2 × MAN W6V15 / 18 |
| Motor type: | Six-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine |
| Power transmission: | mechanical with Mylius gear |
| Train brake: | Indirect brake as a block brake |
| Seats: | 2nd class: 4 3rd class: 79 |
| Classes : | 2nd / 3rd |
The VT3 of the Hohenzollerische Landesbahn (HzL) was manufactured in 1936 by Waggon- und Maschinenbau Görlitz (WUMAG) in Görlitz . The diesel railcar was in use until 1968 and was retired and scrapped in the same year after an accident.
history
Two years after purchasing the VT1 and 2 , the company procured another railcar. This was intended for operation with two trailer cars as a supplement to the two existing railcars when there was a high volume of traffic. This four-axle railcar had twice the power of the VT1 and 2 and had mechanical power transmission.
Comfort and running properties were rated as excellent. This railcar was used on the Eyach - Sigmaringen line. The HzL was planning to purchase additional vehicles with combustion engines. This project could not be realized because of the Second World War . At the beginning of the war, all vehicles with diesel engines were shut down and the engines were used for purposes important to the war effort.
The VT3 survived the war and was back in service in 1950. On steep inclines, such as in the Burladingen section , he needed pushing assistance . Station data are not known.
The railcar was often used on special trips, such as on pilgrimages to the Beuron Archabbey .
It was not until 20 years after its appearance that an Esslingen railcar, a new-build vehicle almost identical to the VT3, was put into service. The MAN rail buses , which were procured in greater numbers in 1955 , were similar in terms of performance, but as two-axle vehicles could not compete with the four-axle VT3 in terms of smoothness .
In 1962, the railcar received two new engines with 180 hp each in Nuremberg . Then it could be used in association with the MAN rail buses. The front section changed slightly due to the installation of an additional tail light and the triple headlight .
The service life of the VT3 ended in January 1968 when it was so badly damaged in a head-on collision in the Harter Wald that it had to be retired. In the same year the vehicle was scrapped.
In the same year, HzL bought the Esslingen railcar, which was built in 1952 for the Rinteln-Stadthagener Eisenbahn (T61) and which was also in use as the T61 on the Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn from 1962 to 1965 . He was given the designation VT3 with a second occupation.
Constructive features
The railcar belonging to WUMAG type 4 was motorized with 2 × 150 PS and each equipped with a Mylius gearbox . The inner axles of the bogies were driven. At one end of the vehicle, the railcar had a luggage compartment that housed the driver's cab. This was followed by the entry room, which was followed by two third-class compartments of roughly the same size , divided as a smoker / non-smoker compartment . The second entry area was followed by a compartment with four 2nd class seats and the rear driver's cab. Both driver's cabs were separated from the entry areas. Transitions for interconnected operation were built into the front ends. As a result, the front of the railcar had four windows.
The primary suspension and the secondary suspension were realized with leaf springs . The exterior was painted according to the Reichsbahn scheme: aluminum-colored roofs, black frames, the car body below the window parapet signal red, above the window parapet ivory-colored. The railcar ran in this color scheme until the end of its mission.
literature
- Günther Zeiger: 100 years of HzL . Kohlhammer and Wallishauser GmbH, Hechingen 1999, p. 33-37 (Hohenzollerische Landesbahn AG).
- Botho Walldorf: The Hohenzollerische Landesbahn . Sutton Verlag GmbH, Erfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-95400-599-4 .
- Botho Walldorf: 100 years of the Hohenzollerische Landesbahn AG . Druckerei Acker GmbH, Gammertingen 1999, ISBN 3-00-004387-X .
- Collective of authors: Hohenzollerische Landesbahn AG, from the time it was founded until today . Hohenzollerische Landesbahn AG, Hechingen 1987.
- Baurat Semke: Railcar operation on regular- gauge , non-Reich-owned railways , in Verkehrstechnik , issue 23, December 4, 1936.
Web links
- Vehicle register of the vehicles of the HzL with mention of the VT3
- Website about the railcars of the HzL
- Photo of the HzL VT 3 1964 on the Joachim Schmidt Railway Foundation
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Author collective: Hohenzollerische Landesbahn AG, from the time it was founded until today . Hohenzollerische Landesbahn AG, Hechingen 1987, p. 51 .
- ^ Collective of authors: Hohenzollerische Landesbahn AG, from the time it was founded until today . Hohenzollerische Landesbahn AG, Hechingen 1987, p. 49 .
- ^ Botho Walldorf: 100 years of the Hohenzollerische Landesbahn AG . Druckerei Acker GmbH, Gammertingen 1999, ISBN 3-00-004387-X , p. 57 .
- ^ Botho Walldorf: 100 years of the Hohenzollerische Landesbahn AG . Druckerei Acker GmbH, Gammertingen 1999, ISBN 3-00-004387-X , p. 120 .
- ^ Botho Walldorf: 100 years of the Hohenzollerische Landesbahn AG . Druckerei Acker GmbH, Gammertingen 1999, ISBN 3-00-004387-X , p. 136 .
- ^ Botho Walldorf: 100 years of the Hohenzollerische Landesbahn AG . Druckerei Acker GmbH, Gammertingen 1999, ISBN 3-00-004387-X , p. 173 .
- ↑ a b c Botho Walldorf: 100 years of the Hohenzollerische Landesbahn AG . Druckerei Acker GmbH, Gammertingen 1999, ISBN 3-00-004387-X , p. 168 .
- ^ Botho Walldorf: The Hohenzollerische Landesbahn . Sutton Verlag GmbH, Erfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-95400-599-4 , p. 98 .
- ↑ Data sheet of the Hohenzollerische Landesbahn with mention of the VT3
- ↑ Report with photos of the Esslinger VT3 on Drehscheibe-Online
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Theurich: From old archives in Eisenbahn-Magazin 4/95, page 22
- ↑ Baurat Semke, in traffic engineering , Issue 23, 1936