Bombardier married pair
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| Numbering: | ABpma: 55 80 11-75 001 to 015 Bpmda: 55 80 22-75 046 to 059 Bpmdza: 55 80 22-75 001 to 045 Bpmbdfa: 55 80 80-75 001 to 016 (since entry in the National Traffic Register , previously different numbers used) |
| Number: | ABpma: 15 bpmda: 14 bpmdza: 45 bpmbdfa: 16 |
| Manufacturer: | Bombardier Transportation , Hennigsdorf plant |
| Year of construction (s): | 2005 |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | End car: 27,270 mm Control and intermediate car: 27,300 mm |
| Width: | 2,764 mm |
| Trunnion Distance: | 19,000 mm |
| Empty mass: | ABpma: 40 t Bpmda: 38 t Bpmdza: 42 t Bpmbdfa: 42 t |
| Top speed: | 160 km / h |
| Brake: | End and middle car: KE-PR-A (D) [NBÜ2004] Control car: KE-PR-A-mZ (D) [NBÜ2004] |
| Train heating: | Climate (electric air conditioning with automatic control) |
| Coupling type: | Screw couplings (only end cars), shell sleeve couplings (among each other) |
| Seats: | ABpma: 46/23 bpmda: 95 bpmdza: 86 bpmbdfa: 78 |
| Standing room: | ABpma: 104 Bpmda: 123 Bpmdza: 114 Bpmbdfa: 108 |
| Floor height: | 760 mm |
| Low floor: | 100% |
| Classes : | 1st and 2nd class |
Bombardier Married Pairs are single-story passenger coaches from the manufacturer Bombardier , which are used on the march track . Two cars are each connected to a unit that can only be separated in the workshop.
concept
As part of the tender for new vehicles for use on the Hamburg - Westerland (Sylt) march line , Bombardier developed a new type of air-conditioned, low-floor passenger coach. As a special feature, only every second car has a power supply system, which supplies its own and a neighboring car, from which the name Married Pair is derived. The plan was to use them in fixed units, which are connected to one another with sleeve couplings and only have conventional pulling and pushing devices with screw couplings on the end cars.
The furnishing can be done variably according to customer requirements, the standard variant provides for open plan 1st and 2nd class as well as multi-purpose compartments. Optional equipment features are ticket, snack and beverage machines, bistro areas and the arrangement and number of toilets.
procurement
For use on the Marschbahn from the timetable change in December 2005, the state-wide traffic service company Schleswig-Holstein (LVS), as the responsible body, procured 78 cars via the leasing company HSH N Sylt-Express AB, a subsidiary of HSH Nordbank , which the new operator, the Nord -Ostsee-Bahn (NOB), were made available. For use on the InterConnex , the NOB procured two more identical 6-car sets on its own account.
In June 2012 the car pool was put out to tender because the leasing company wants to withdraw from the business. The state of Schleswig-Holstein has given these wagons an operational guarantee for their remaining useful life of 19 years, which is why the future operator of the Marschbahn must take over the leasing contract. The wagon sets now belong to Paribus Capital, which has also taken over the leasing of the new locomotives to be used from 2015.
All cars are designed as air-conditioned open-plan cars. You have 2 middle entrances, which are equipped with gap bridges at a height of 550 mm. Push-pull train operation takes place regularly with the Wire Train Bus (WTB), while the time-division multiplex push-pull train control (ZWS) is available as a fallback level . For the future push-pull train operation with the four-engine diesel locomotives of the 245.2 series, adjustments to the control car were necessary, which have been carried out successively since the beginning of 2015 as part of modernization work. For operation without a conductor, all cars have the necessary equipment for the technology-based handling procedure (TAV), which has not yet been used regularly. The floor height of all wagons, like the regular platform height, is 760 mm above the top edge of the rail, and stepless passage is possible within the entire train. The car transitions are protected by bellows . The bogies have air suspension and wheel disc brakes, and every second bogie also has a magnetic rail brake . All vehicles are equipped with an emergency brake override according to UIC 541-5, substructure NBÜ2004.
So far (2017), apart from the 90 vehicles now owned by Paribus Capital, no further married pair cars have been built.
End car ABpma
The first class is housed in the middle large area and in the final large area at the end of the car with a screw coupling. This typically has a seating arrangement with the seat divider 2 + 1, and there are also tables or rows of folding tables at the face-to-face seating groups. Only the seats in 1st class are currently equipped with Schuko sockets next to the seat lights above the heads of the passengers. The other final grand room belongs to the 2nd class. There is also a service compartment, but not a toilet.
Intermediate car Bpmda
All 3 large rooms have 2nd class seating groups in rows and face-to-face arrangement. Folding tables are provided on the backrests in row seating. The large open area also has a multi-purpose compartment for transporting bicycles and other loads. There is no toilet in this car either.
Bpmdza intermediate car
In addition to large rooms in 2nd class, there is a multi-purpose compartment for transporting bicycles and a toilet. Due to the toilet and the equipment cupboards, the number of seats is slightly reduced compared to the Bpmda.
The built-in energy supply system is designed to supply another car in addition to your own car. There are corresponding supply lines between the individual cars.
Control car Bpmbdfa
The control car has two large end rooms with 2nd class seating areas as well as a multi-purpose compartment with folding seats in the central open area. The control car is handicapped accessible, the handicapped accessible equipment includes a lift and a barrier-free toilet.
Possible train compositions
From the existing vehicles, a 4-part car set consisting of one end and one control car as well as two intermediate cars with an energy supply system can be formed as the smallest operational unit. In addition, up to 3 pairs of one intermediate car with and one intermediate car without an energy supply can be lined up. In principle, it is also possible to add further intermediate cars with energy supply systems without connected cars to be supplied, but this is not useful due to the coordinated quantities.
All wagons are usually assigned to fixed trains, which are referred to as march train sets (MB), followed by a train number (1 to 15). These numbers are written on the outside of the wagon in addition to their wagon number.
As a rule, 4 and 6-car trains were formed at the NOB. At times a 5-part set was used on the Hamburg-Cologne-Express (HKX), which was formed from a 4-part set, which in turn was reinforced by an undamaged intermediate car of the march train set that had crashed on January 13, 2012 near Langenhorn.
commitment
Since the timetable change in December 2005, the wagons have been used on the Hamburg - Westerland (Sylt) line, now known as RE 6. As planned, 6-car trains are used, each of which can be reinforced by a further 4-car set if necessary, and older express train cars are also used as reinforcements at times. It is not uncommon for trains to be formed with the locomotive in the middle of the train. In any case, a transition between the individual train parts is not possible, as the end cars with the regular pulling and pushing devices do not have a car transition at the end. The covering is done with diesel locomotives of the types Siemens ER 20 (series 223) and MaK DE 2700 (series 251). From December 2015, newly purchased diesel locomotives of the type Bombardier TRAXX DE ME (class 245.2) should take over the covering, for which, however, adjustments to the control car were necessary. The sole operation with the new locomotives could not be achieved until today due to recurring technical problems.
Between 2006 and 2014, the two sets, procured on their own account, operated as a private long-distance train of the InterConnex between Leipzig and Warnemünde. At the timetable change in December 2014, the line was discontinued due to lack of demand.
Since 2012, sets have been leased to the Hamburg-Köln-Express time and again, including at times a 5-car set.
In November 2016, due to cracks in the couplings, all 90 wagons had to be parked by order of the Federal Railway Authority.
With the timetable change in December 2016, the Schleswig-Holstein regional train took over the management of the Marschbahn again after winning the tender. Since then, all married pair cars have been registered in Kiel, but the cars do not reach their home plant as planned. Maintenance is carried out in the Hamburg-Langenfelde wagon factory of DB Fernverkehr AG and in the Neumünster repair shop. The offer of the Nord-Ostsee-Bahn to use the workshop in Husum, which opened in 2005, was rejected due to a lack of profitability.
Coupling problems and complete shutdown in autumn 2016
On October 6, 2016 died in a train of Marschbahn in Elmshorn to a train separation as a result of initially unknown defects in one of the cup sleeve couplings between the cars. During the subsequent investigation, cracks were found in several clutches, whereupon the entire vehicle fleet had to be brought to the workshop for inspection. Anomalies were also found in other vehicles, whereupon the Federal Railway Authority withdrew the operating license for the wagons on November 11, until further notice. In the meantime, conventional passenger coaches were used for replacement traffic between Hamburg and Sylt, which were drawn together from all over Germany.
After an appraisal on the extent of the damage and repairs was available in February 2017, the first repaired wagons were put back into operation in April. The repair of the remaining cars dragged on through 2017 due to limited spare parts and workshop capacities. Further technical malfunctions on locomotives and wagons will make replacement traffic with older vehicles necessary until 2018.
Coloring
All cars were delivered in the corporate colors of the Nord-Ostsee-Bahn with the basic color white or light gray, blue stripes in the roof and in the frame area, as well as yellow doors and gray ribbon windows.
As part of the repair of the couplings, the doors were repainted in turquoise based on the color concept of the Schleswig-Holstein local transport network (NAH.SH). When main inspections are due in the near future, the wagons will be gradually modernized and finally repainted in the national design.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carriages of the same design and Silberling operations abroad In: Eisenbahn Kurier Special 98 3/2010 Silberlinge / Silberlinge / Carriages for Generations , p. 92
- ↑ Paribus Capital press release of March 27, 2014 (PDF) ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Single-deck Coaches - Germany on Bombardier.com
- ↑ Passenger information on replacement trains due to technical adjustments to the Nord-Ostsee-Bahn from spring 2015
- ↑ Operator gives up - last interconnex to the Baltic Sea ( memento from March 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on mdr.de
- ↑ Hamburg-Cologne Express on schedule with NOB units on Eisenbahn-Kurier.de
- ^ Statement by NAH.SH on the reports on the clutches ( memento of October 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive )