Mercedes-Benz O 405 GTD

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An Esslinger O 405 GTD in diesel mode
An O 405 GTD from EVAG in Essen with additional doors on the left
Essen: Car 3717 in electric operation in the Kray district
3727 at the Wasserturm stop
Sarajevo: a former Esslingen O 405 GTD after its conversion to a diesel bus

The Mercedes-Benz O 405 GTD is a duo bus type of Daimler-Benz , it is based on the conventional articulated bus -series O 405 G . The electrical equipment was supplied by AEG . The type designation GTD stands for G elenk- T rolleybus with D ieselantrieb.

history

Following the predecessor series O 305 GTD (only four units), a total of 47 units of the type discussed here were produced between 1986 and 1995. Of these, 20 were equipped with track guides for track bus operation. The 405 GTD were distributed among the trolleybus operators as follows :

Years of construction piece business Numbers
1986-1987 18th Essener Verkehrs-AG (EVAG) 3711-3728
1987 2 Test vehicles for the Rastatt O-Bahn test facility Identification RA-D 922 and RA-LE 529
1988-1995 19th Trolleybus Esslingen am Neckar 310-328
1992 1 Kapfenberg trolleybus 31
1992-1994 3 Bergen trolleybus 6701-6703
1993 2 Copenhagen 1 and 2
1993 2 Trolleybus Potsdam 993 and 994
  • The 18 Essen wagons were a special feature; they were retrofitted with additional doors on the left side at the beginning of the 1990s as part of the expanded track bus operation. These were the prerequisites for operating the central platforms in the inner-city tram tunnel, the so-called east-west clasp .
  • The Rastatt car with the registration number RA-LE 529 was handed over to Kapfenberg in 1990 and included in the inventory there under the company number 30. The second Rastatt car with the registration number RA-D 922 served the manufacturer as a demonstration car, its whereabouts are unknown.
  • The two Potsdam wagons were handed over to the Mürz Valley Transport Company in 1995 after the Potsdam trolleybus network was closed, and they continued to be used with the new numbers 32 (ex 994) and 33 (ex 993).
  • The four cars that remained in Kapfenberg were converted to pure diesel buses when operations there ceased, the first being car 31 at the end of 2000

Not a single O 405 GTD has been in service with its original operation since 2011. Most of the cars were sold by their first owners to Bosnia-Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Russia , Romania , Belarus , to the Kirchmeyer bus company in Groß-Umstadt and to the Schweinfurt public utility company. However, the second owners largely converted the O 405 GTD into diesel buses, unless this had already been done by the first owner. Another example has been preserved as a museum at the Stuttgart Historical Tramway Association .

The successor to the O 405 GTD is the low-floor O 405 GNTD , which, however, did not go beyond the production of a single prototype.

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