Mode wagon

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Mode wagon
Modus set with control car at the top near Markt Bibart
Modus set with control car at the top near Markt Bibart
Number: 55
Manufacturer: PFA willows
Year of construction (s): 1998-99 (2003)
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Length over buffers: 26,400 mm
Length: Control car: 25,840 mm
Passenger car: 26,100 mm
Height: 3,690 mm
Width: 2,830 mm
Trunnion Distance: 19,000 mm
Total wheelbase: 21,600 mm
Empty mass: Control car: 41 t
Passenger car: 39 t
Service mass: Control car: 48 t
Passenger car: 46 t
Top speed: 140 km / h
Brake: Control car: R KE-GPR-AmZ (D)
Passenger car: R KE-GPR-A (D)
Train heating: Climates
Seats: Control cars: 45
Passenger cars: 86 (81)

As a mode car is a genus of passenger carriages of Deutsche Bahn referred, the older of conversions vehicles emerged. The term "mode" stands for " mod ulares U mbau s ystem".

Idea and structure

Parked Modus cars at Würzburg Central Station
Modus car in Frankfurt am Main
Modus push-pull train arriving at Würzburg Hbf

The company Partner for Vehicle Equipment (PFA) from Weiden in Upper Palatinate developed the so-called "PUmA" concept at the end of the 1990s. It provides only the donor car undercarriages to use on which a superstructure in aluminum is placed construction method, hence the name "Puma" (PFA conversion concept with aluminum construction). The concept envisaged integrating all special areas in the control car so that the passenger carriages are all identical. Former "long Halberstädter" center entry cars of the type Bmh from Reichsbahn stocks, which were converted into 55 PUmA wagons, were used as donor wagons for this project :

  • 11 ABpybdzf 484.0 , control car 1./2. Class with multi-purpose compartment
  • 44 Bpyz 456.0 , 2nd class passenger car

Due to the increased demand from cyclists, an end compartment was converted into a multi-purpose room in eleven passenger coaches in 2003. These cars are run as Bpydz 456.9 .

The new aluminum superstructures were painted in the then new traffic red color scheme of the railway and refurnished, but the classic division into three passenger areas with two entry areas was retained. The renovation made it possible to offer passengers contemporary and comfortable equipment, including automatic destination displays inside and outside, large multi-purpose areas and a handicapped-accessible toilet in the control car , the dynamic head shape of the control car and the continuous ribbon window made the vehicles look much more modern than the previously used " Silberlinge ". However, there was criticism of the high and narrow stairs at the entrances, which make entry difficult, especially for disabled travelers.

commitment

After commissioning in the 1999 timetable, the trains were initially used in regional express services between Hof , Bamberg , Würzburg and Wiesbaden . The use with diesel locomotives of the 218 series did not prove itself, however, shortly after the commissioning of the wagons, a fatal accident occurred in December 1998 at Ebensfeld station between Lichtenfels and Bamberg, which was due to the lack of side-selective door control in the 218 series is due. After this incident, the use of the Modus wagons was shortened from the end of May 1999 to the Bamberg – Würzburg – Wiesbaden section, which is fully electrified. After the conversion of the entire line Hof-Bamberg-Würzburg on diesel multiple units of class 612 , the mode-car drove up to December 2006 only in combination with locomotives of the series 111 , 112 and 146.2 as Franken-Express on the line Nuremberg -Würzburg- Frankfurt ( Main) and as a regional train between Nuremberg and Neustadt (Aisch) . Since the Franken-Express broke in Würzburg, the Modus wagons have also come to Augsburg with a pair of trains , otherwise the area of ​​operation has remained largely unchanged. All 55 Modus wagons were initially planned to be stationed in the Hof depot, since the wagons no longer reach Hof as planned, they have been based in the Würzburg depot. Since 2006 a set has also been used on the Nuremberg – Treuchtlingen line. At the beginning of 2015, there were still eight control cars and 26 passenger coaches in stock. The use of the cars ended on October 5, 2016, four intermediate cars will be retained as replacements for the time being, and seven control cars with double-deck cars were in operation until December 2016. Since December 2016, some of the wagons have been based in Kiel and are mainly used there for local transport between Kiel and Neumünster . Amplifier performances still carried modus cars. These were formed from a class 111 locomotive, three double-decker cars, a modus intermediate car and a modus control car. These services were used between Nuremberg and Sonneberg, Nuremberg and Treuchtlingen, and Nuremberg and Würzburg. For the 2017/18 timetable change, all remaining modus cars were z-provided. Würzburg is no longer home to a single car. All of them were scrapped or sold, so the use in all of Germany ended.

17 cars were modernized by the Romanian company Electroputere VFU Paşcani for use in Gabon . The only railway line in the country connects its capital Libreville with Franceville in the interior. The wagons received a new interior, SA-3 central buffer couplings and a repaint. The first vehicles were delivered in May 2017.

Web links

Commons : Mode Wagon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b PumA car deployment in northern Bavaria , in Bahn Report 3/1999, p. 49
  2. ^ Eisenbahn-magazin 1/2013, p. 81
  3. Off for carriage mode . In: railway magazine . No. 12 , 2016, ISSN  0342-1902 , p. 35 .
  4. mr: Modus car for Gabon. In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 11/2017, p. 572.