MG Bhe 4/8

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MG / GN Bhe 4/8
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Numbering: MG 11 to 14
GN 301 to 305
Number: 4 (MG), 5 (GN)
Manufacturer: SLM SE
Year of construction (s): 1982 (MG), 1983, 1992 and 2011 (GN)
Retirement: -
Axis formula : 2'Z 2'Z + 2'Z 2'Z
Gauge : 800 mm
Length over buffers: 23890 MM
Service mass: 34.1 t (MG), 34 t (GN)
Top speed: 14 km / h (MG), 22 km / h (GN)
Hourly output : 800 kW (1088 hp)
Gear system : Dept
Power system : 650 V = (MG), 850 V = (GN)
Power transmission: Overhead line
Number of traction motors: 4th
Gradient: 220 ‰
Seats: 96
Classes : 2nd Class

The Bhe 4/8 are two-part, close-coupled electric cogwheels - double multiple units of the Monte Generoso Railway (MG) and the Transports Montreux – Vevey – Riviera (MVR).

The four existing railcars of the Monte Generoso Railway were purchased on the occasion of the electrification of the railway in 1982. They were manufactured by the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (SLM) in Winterthur . The electrical equipment was supplied by Siemens ( Erlangen plant ). The railcars are the only electric vehicles on the Monte Generoso Railway.

In 1983, three largely identical railcars were delivered to the Chemin de fer Glion-Rochers-de-Naye (GN) (today Transports Montreux-Vevey-Riviera ). They only differ in the details of the electrical and mechanical parts, since the contact line voltage and the coupling system are different. A railcar was delivered in 1992, another was built in 2010 in the workshops of the Montreux-Berner Oberland-Bahn (MOB) in Chernex and put into operation in 2011.

Coat of arms of the railcars of the Monte Generoso railway

Coat of arms and years of construction of the railcars of the Transports Montreux-Vevey-Riviera

  • Bhe 4/8 301 Montreux (1983) SLM, Siemens a)
  • Bhe 4/8 302 Veytaux (1983) SLM, Siemens a)
  • Bhe 4/8 303 Villeneuve (1983) SLM, Siemens a)
  • Bhe 4/8 304 La Tour-de-Peilz (1992) SLM, Siemens a)
  • Bhe 4/8 305 (2011) MOB workshop Chernex, Siemens a)

a) Up to three railcars can be coupled and controlled via a multiple control system installed subsequently.

  • Bhe 4/8 No. 301 in Montreux

  • The two GN Bhe 4/8 304 and 302 with Vorstellwagen in the Montreux

  • The GN Bhe 4/8 301 and 304, with the retrofitted automatic coupling with built-in multiple control in Glion station

literature

  • Peter Willen: Locomotives and railcars of the Swiss Railways, Volume 2 Private Railways Western Switzerland and Valais . Orell Füssli 2nd edition 1984 ISBN 3-280-01474-3 , p. 97
  • Peter Willen: Locomotives and multiple units of the Swiss Railways, Volume 4 Private Railways, Central, Southern and Eastern Switzerland . Orell Füssli (1st edition) 1983 ISBN 3-280-01301-1 , p. 73