LCD C2 11

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LCD C2 11
C2 11 hen house in its original state
C 2 11 hen house in its original state
Numbering: 11
Number: 1
Manufacturer: SWS
Year of construction (s): 1911
Gauge : 1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Length over buffers: 9900 millimeters
Empty mass: 7 tons
Brake: Vacuum brake
Coupling type: + GF + coupling
Seats: 32
Standing room: 30 (from 1949), originally 18

The C 2 11 of the Lugano-Cadro-Dino-Bahn , abbreviated LCD, is a closed passenger car with open platforms. It was part of the initial equipment of the aforementioned railway company, which had just seven vehicles when it opened in 1911. The car dealt with here, nicknamed the chicken coop , in Italian pulée , is one of the original two two-axle passenger cars of the LCD, the other was the open summer car C2 21 .

At the end of 1945, car 11 received the + GF + coupling instead of the central buffer coupling with two lateral screw couplings . In 1949, the crossings at the end of the car were removed and the number of standing places increased from 18 to 30. In connection with the class reform in 1956, the passenger car was re-designated as the B 2 11.

After the conversion to bus service in 1972, the surplus car was sold to the municipality of Viganello in the same year . They set it up in the front yard of the kindergarten and renovated the outdoor car in 1984.

In 2009 it was transferred to Tesserete on the area of ​​the former train station. There in the bus garage of the Autolinee Regionali Luganesi , the car was comprehensively refurbished with the help of its staff, the Fondazione Opera Ticinese di Assistenza per la Fanciullezza (a youth welfare organization) and the students of the Centro Scolastico per le Industrie Artistiche (school of arts and crafts), where it can be sent on request can also be visited.

literature

  • Alberto Polli and Angelo Ghirlanda: C'era una volt… . Fontana Edizioni, Lugano-Pregassona 2010.
  • Christian Ammann: Encounters with the LCD in: Eisenbahn Amateur , number 1/2017, pages 24 to 29.