KBE 300-304
| KBE 300-304 | |
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 KBE train
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| Numbering: |
KBE : 300–304 MKB : T3 – T4 EPG : T55 LAW : T55 |
| Number: | 5 |
| Manufacturer: | LHL , NAG |
| Year of construction (s): | 1925 |
| Retirement: | until 1967 |
| Axis formula : | (1A) (A1) |
| Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | 15,750 mm |
| Length: | 14,850 mm |
| Height: | 3,450 mm |
| Width: | 2,700 mm |
| Trunnion Distance: | 10,000 mm |
| Bogie axle base: | 1,600 mm |
| Total wheelbase: | 11,600 mm |
| Installed capacity: | originally 2 × 55 kW (2 × 75 PS) after conversion: 2 × 81 kW (2 × 110 PS) |
| Wheel diameter: | 750 mm |
| Motor type: | Originally six-cylinder four-stroke benzene engine after conversion of six-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine |
| Power transmission: | mechanical with TAG gear |
| Tank capacity: | 700 l |
| Coupling type: | Originally Scharfenberg coupling MKB balancing lever coupling, last pulling and pushing device |
| Seats: | 56 |
The KBE 300–304 railcars were a series of railcars supplied by Linke-Hofmann-Lauchhammer Aktiengesellschaft and the National Automobile Society (NAG) to the Cologne-Bonn Railways (KBE).
Two vehicles were sold to the Mindener Kreisbahnen after the KBE had been gauged . After the local meter - gauge network ceased operations there , a railcar was transferred to the Emden – Pewsum – Greetsiel district and, after its end of operation, to the Leer – Aurich – Wittmund small railway . It was in operation there until 1967. In 1970 the car was scrapped.
history
Cologne-Bonn Railways
In order to accelerate the traffic on the narrow-gauge foothills railway of the KBE, benzene railcars were bought for passenger transport after the First World War . First five vehicles were built by Linke-Hofmann-Lauchhammer AG , which bore the numbers 300-304. From 1926 onwards, these vehicles were operated in close intervals on the approximately 35-kilometer route. Multiple control was used for the first time in Germany . A train consisted of about seven cars, with motor cars lined up in the train set being remotely controlled from the driver's cab of the first car.
An express train service with only one stop was set up between Cologne and Brühl , and a passenger train service with ten stops between Cologne and Pingsdorf . The vehicles had a higher speed than the steam trains, there was no nuisance from coal dust or smoke, the personnel costs were lower and there was better space for the travelers.
From Pingsdorf in the rigid timetable , steam trains had to continue to Bonn . The railcars ran 450 to 500 kilometers per day in express train service and around 500 kilometers per day in passenger train service . The total annual output of the cars was put at 72,000 kilometers. A small revision was required every 30,000 kilometers and a full revision every 60,000 kilometers. Two years later, three more vehicles with the road numbers KBE 305, 310 and 311 were manufactured by the Deutsche Werke Kiel .
All passenger traffic on the KBE was carried out with these vehicles up to the gauge changeover. In 1932 a railcar was taken out of service. In 1934 the entire line was converted to standard gauge and the remaining railcars were offered for sale. Two railcars could be sold, the rest were scrapped.
Mindener Kreisbahnen T3 – T4
Two railcars with unknown numbers were taken over by the Mindener Kreisbahnen and converted to diesel operation. They were in use from 1935, with mileage being given as 4000 kilometers per month in the 1930s. Around 1938 the vehicles received a general inspection, during which the driver's cabs and entrances were converted. The T3 possibly received a wood gasification system.
When the war began, the mileage decreased noticeably, around 15,000 kilometers were covered each year. In 1943, the annual reports no longer contain any entries, the railcar operation had come to a standstill due to the fuel shortage. After the Second World War, they served for a few years. At the end of the meter gauge time of the Mindener Kreisbahn, the T3 was sold to the Emden – Pewsum – Greetsiel district, the T4 was retired.
Emden – Pewsum – Greetsiel district
The T3 railcar was used on the Emden – Pewsum – Greetsiel circuit until it was closed and was designated the T55 . Then it was sold again.
Small train Leer – Aurich – Wittmund
In 1963 the railcar was acquired by the Leer-Aurich-Wittmund small railway, where it was used in the bathing service between Esens and Bensersiel . It was also used for freight traffic in the Aurich area. In 1967 it had a gearbox failure and was only used as a brake truck . After the line was closed in 1969, the railcar was scrapped in 1970.
Constructive features
The car body was designed in the so-called heavy construction as a metal construction and in rivet construction. The retracted entrance doors, the three-section trapezoidal front with the large headlights, the spoked wheels in the small bogies and the superstructures on the roof were striking on the vehicles. The machinery, consisting of the drive motor and the change gear, was mounted in the driver's cab under a panel on a subframe. To change the engine, only the front wall was removed, and then the machine system could be changed with a pulley.
The engine was directly connected to the manual transmission. This could work over four gears up to a top speed of 45 km / h with accelerations of up to 1.03 m / s². The inner axle of the associated bogie was driven by a cardan shaft. The reversing gear was also located there.
The main tank was under the car body floor. Before driving or during breaks in operation, the driver had to use a hand pump to pump fuel into an upper tank, from which the fuel was transported to the carburetor by gravity. Originally the vehicles had steam heating based on the Pintsch system . Later, the exhaust gases from the internal combustion engine were used for heating. The sidecars could also be heated via heating clutches.
Originally, the KBE vehicles were equipped with Scharfenberg couplings. At MKB they were provided with balancing lever couplings. Most recently, they received pulling and bumpers for the transport of jacked up standard gauge wagons on trestles .
When they were delivered, they had transition doors on the non-engine side in the front for changing the train crew to the next car. The train sequence had to be carried out in such a way that this side of the railcar was always facing the sidecar. When used on the small railways, there are no longer any references to these transition doors.
literature
- Schütte: The Mindener Kreisbahnen . Uhle and Kleimann, Lübbecke 1990, ISBN 3-922657-77-X .
- Wolfram Bäumer: 75 years ago - railcars at Kleinbahnen . In: The Museum Railway . No. 3 , 2002, ISSN 0936-4609 , p. 18–22 ( museumseisenbahn.de [PDF]).
Web links
- KBE data sheet with mention of KBE 300–304
- Data sheet of the MKB with mention of the MKB T3 – T4
- Data sheet of the EPG with mention of the T55
- Data sheet of the LAW with mention of the T55
- Joachim Schmidt Railway Foundation : Photo of the T55 of Klb. Leer-Aurich-Wittmund (1969), the former MKB T3
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Wolfram Bäumer: 75 years ago - railcars at Kleinbahnen . In: The Museum Railway . No. 3 , 2002, ISSN 0936-4609 , p. 20 ( museumseisenbahn.de [PDF]).
- ↑ a b Wolfram Bäumer: 75 years ago - railcars at Kleinbahnen . In: The Museum Railway . No. 3 , 2002, ISSN 0936-4609 , p. 22 ( museumseisenbahn.de [PDF]).
- ↑ a b data sheet of the Cologne-Bonn railway with mention of the 300–304
- ↑ Rolf Löttgers: The railcars of Deutsche Werke Kiel . Uhle and Kleimann, Lübbecke 1988, p. 115 .
- ^ Schütte: The Mindener Kreisbahnen . Uhle and Kleimann, Lübbecke 1990, p. 95 .
- ↑ Schmalspur-ostwestfalen.de. Retrieved July 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Rolf Löttgers: The railcars of Deutsche Werke Kiel . Uhle and Kleimann, Lübbecke 1988, p. 116 .
- ↑ a b c data sheet of the Mindener Kreisbahnen with mention of the T3 and T4
- ↑ Data sheet of the Kleinbahn Leer – Aurich – Wittmund with mention of the T55