Eberswalde trolleybus
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| Country |
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| city | Eberswalde |
| opening | 3 November 1940 |
| operator | Barnimer bus company |
| Transport network | VBB |
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| Route length | 37.2 km |
| Substations | 3 |
| Power system | 600 V DC |
| Depots | 1 |
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| Lines | 3 |
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The trolleybus Eberswalde , popularly known as trolleybus or Strippenbus or Strippenexpress , is one of three remaining trolleybus networks in Germany , along with the trolleybus Esslingen am Neckar and the trolleybus Solingen . Trolleybus traffic in Eberswalde started on November 3rd, 1940, making it the oldest German trolleybus operation. Today two lines (from December 2019 three) operate over a length of 37.2 kilometers, operated by Barnimer Busgesellschaft (BBG). The Eberswalde trackless railway is considered to be the forerunner ; it ran briefly in 1901.
history
On March 12, 1901, the so-called Gleislose Bahn from Alsenplatz to the station was opened, but closed again in June of the same year. The technology of this first regularly operated trolleybus in Germany was not yet fully developed.
Today's trolleybus replaced the Eberswalde urban tram from November 3, 1940 , which ran from September 1, 1910 to November 2, 1940. The first trolleybuses to be used (type MPE 1) had a chassis made by MAN AG in Nuremberg . The superstructures were from the Schumann company from Werdau in Saxony. The electrical control of the 61-kilowatt double-collector motor was carried out via a fine-level drive switch with double-stroke actuation.
From 1942 to 1985 the trolleybuses in Eberswalde ran in times of heavy passenger traffic with trailers. The Eberswalde transport company was the last German bus company to carry out regular service with trailers. In recent years, a special permit was required for this, as the transport of people in trailers was no longer permitted in the GDR since 1978. In 1975 three Škoda 9Trs came from the disbanded Dresden trolleybus to Eberswalde.
Since July 1, 1993, the NGE 152 low-floor trolleybuses operated by Gräf & Stift in Eberswalde. The trolleybuses run in two lines from Nordend (line 861) and Ostend (line 862) to the Brandenburg Quarter and handle most of the city's local public transport. The two lines have a total length of 37.2 kilometers. The 15 trolleybuses covered 870,500 kilometers per year and carried 4.2 million passengers.
After their retirement in 1995, ten Ikarus articulated vehicles were taken to the Timișoara trolleybus in Romania , where some of them were still in use until 2008.
From November 6, 2010, the first Eberswalde low-floor trolleybus generation was replaced by twelve Solaris Trollino 18s .
Track openings
- March 22, 1901: Alsenplatz (today Karl-Marx-Platz) - train station (closed after three months)
- November 3, 1940: Ostend - Westend
- April 5, 1953: Center - Nordend
- October 7, 1973: Street of Youth - Poratzstrasse
- November 6, 1987: Westend - residential area "Max Reimann" (today Brandenburg quarter)
- July 2, 1990: Corner of Spechthausener Strasse / Leninstrasse (today Eberswalder Strasse) - Kleiner Stern
- July 1, 1993: Brandenburg Quarter - Kleiner Stern
Trolleybus types in Eberswalde
Line operation
- 1940–1957: MPE 1 with chassis from MAN and superstructures from Schumann
- 1941–1961: Henschel / Kässbohrer KEO I (military unit trolleybus, standard size I, MPE 1 chassis with electrical equipment from Siemens-Schuckertwerke )
- 1951–1968: LOWA W 600 from VEB Waggonbau Werdau
- 1953–1959: LOWA W 602a from LOWA Werdau and LOWA Ammendorf
- 1958–1984: Škoda 8Tr ( Škoda Ostrov nad Ohří / ČSSR)
- 1962–1988: Škoda 9Tr (Škoda Ostrov / ČSSR)
- 1984–1990: Škoda 14Tr (Škoda Ostrov / ČSSR)
- 1985–2000: Ikarus 280.93 with electrical equipment from Ganz
- 1992–1995: ÖAF Gräf & Stift GE 110 M16 with electrical equipment from Kiepe
- 1992–1995: ÖAF Gräf & Stift GE 110/54/57 / A
- 1993–2012: ÖAF Gräf & Stift NGE 152 M17 (first low-floor trolleybus in Germany, transferred to the Budapest trolleybus in 2011/12 )
- 1994–2012: ÖAF Gräf & Stift NGE 152 M18
- since 2010: Solaris Trollino 18 AC
From 1942 to 1985 the trolleybuses in Eberswalde ran in times of heavy passenger traffic with trailers from the companies Gottfried Lindner / Ammendorf (own type Lindner ), Schumann (war type KEO ), from combine harvester Weimar, Waggonbau Bautzen and LOWA (types W 700 and W 701 ).
MPE-1 trolleybus, 1940
MPE-1 before processing; Eberswalde depot
Škoda 9Tr on Heegermühler Straße
Škoda 14Tr, 1990
Ikarus trolleybus number 7, 1990
MAN / Gräf & Stift , 2011
Solaris Trollino 18, 2012
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Test operation
- 1989: Škoda 15Tr (Škoda Ostrov / ČSSR - test run for five months)
- 1990: Mercedes-Benz O 405 GTD ( Duo-Bus , on June 11th and from November 2nd to 5th)
- 2006: Solaris / DPO / Cegelec 15AC (August 30th to September 7th)
- 2010: Solaris Trollino 18 from Salzburg
Traditional vehicles
- since 1995: Škoda 14Tr, built in 1983
- since 1996: Škoda 9Tr, built in 1969, restarted in 1999
- since 1996: Gaubschat / AEG HS 56, No. 488, built in 1957 - comes from the Steglitz network of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG)
- Daimler-Benz / Schumann / SSW SSW-DB 45/47, No. 1224, built in 1945 / reconstruction 1947 - comes from the Steglitz network of the BVG
- Henschel / Kässbohrer KEO II
- since 2015: Ikarus 280.94, built in 1986, taken over from Budapest
Two Škoda trolleybuses are operational and approved. Only the 9Tr was in regular service in Eberswalde (1969-88).
The Gaubschat traditional car
Daimler-Benz / Schumann / SSW-DB 45/47
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See also
literature
- Ronald Krüger, Ulrich Pofahl, Mattis Schindler: Stadtverkehr Eberswalde. "Gleislose Bahn" - tram - trolleybus . GVE, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89218-058-X .
- Mattis Schindler: Berlin - Brandenburg - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schleswig-Holstein - Hamburg - Bremen - Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt - Thuringia - Saxony, former German eastern territories . In: Ludger Kenning (Hrsg.): Trolleybuses in Germany . tape 1 . Kenning, Nordhorn 2009, ISBN 978-3-933613-34-9 .
- Felix Förster: Future thanks to duo solutions. Trolleybuses in Germany today and in the future. In: Straßenbahn Magazin 03/2019, GeraMond , pp. 28–31.
Web links
- Barnimer bus company. Retrieved January 26, 2006 .
- The trolleybus town of Eberswalde. Retrieved January 26, 2006 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Tram atlas 2004 Romania, pages 109 and 124
- ↑ The new trolleybuses: Introducing the Solaris Trollino 18. Barnimer Busgesellschaft ( Memento from September 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Overview of historical trolleybuses