Locomotive train

This article deals with the train type Lokzug ( Lz ) or traction vehicle ( Tfzf ). The latter is an abbreviation that is often misused for the occupation of the train driver , which, however, is correctly abbreviated as Tf .

Locomotive train from E50 091 , 211 001 , 155 001 , 103 113 , pushed by 130 101 after a vehicle parade of the DB Museum in Koblenz - Lützel , a branch of the Transport Museum in Nuremberg

A locomotive train is a single locomotive or a series of coupled locomotives that run as a train without any other vehicles . The current technical term for this type of train is in Germany train ride , abbreviated Tfzf . Colloquially, the former abbreviation “Lz” is often used.

Diesel locomotives of the Belgian series 202 and 205 in a Lokzug in Namur , 1987

Locomotive trains are used to provide locomotives at train stations or other operating points where they are currently missing, for the transfer of locomotives or for special tasks, such as measurement runs .

Disused locomotives, e.g. B. dozens of examples of the 232 series , were often put together to form longer locomotive trains and transferred in this form to the scrapping plant.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franz Rittig, Manfred Weisbrod: Class 232 - The famous Ludmilla (= Eisenbahn Journal Extra. Issue 2/2012). Publishing group Bahn, Fürstenfeldbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-89610-363-5