Staff car
A personal car ( PW ), sometimes also called early car or late car , is a specific special trip in local public transport in larger cities that is carried out during the nightly shutdown. These are special trams , trolleybuses or omnibuses that transport drivers, conductors or other staff from their place of residence to the depot early in the morning before the start of work, or from there home late in the evening or at night after business hours. In this way, employees who live further away from the place of work can travel to and from work without a car. With the increasing mass motorization in the post-war period and the introduction of continuous night traffic , however, they lost their importance over the decades. The municipal transport authority in Frankfurt (Oder) , for example, changed its carried out by coach and staff rides 1997 regular night bus to even the Dusseldorf overnight express -lines developed around the turn of the millennium of staff rides, as well as the lines 805-817.
Some of the staff cars are also released for regular passengers. However, there is neither an operating nor a transport obligation , which is why their timetables are not always publicly communicated. The reason for this is, among other things, that these can change at any time without notice, depending on the employee's roster. Also, passengers can only be transported if there is space. Typical for staff cars are routes that deviate from the regular route because these are put together as required. In some cases, there is also no ticket sales in the vehicle - as a result, passengers are only allowed to ride along if they already have a valid ticket before starting the journey. Older vehicles that are no longer used for regular passenger traffic are sometimes used as staff cars. In 1974, for example, each of the five depots on the Bremen tram provided its own staff car.
railroad
In the case of the railway, there are so-called service passenger trains , analogous to the special trips described above in city traffic , for example in shuttle traffic between a regular passenger station and a railway depot or repair shop . This internal type of train , sometimes abbreviated as Dstp , is - in contrast to the staff car in city traffic - generally not released for the public.
In addition, the Deutsche Bundesbahn referred to special passenger cars that served as a mobile lounge - for construction workers, for example - also as staff cars .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Change of timetable 1997 on tram-ff.de
- ↑ Ruhrschiene 2001 # 3, p. 6 ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Overview of the tram and bus staff trips of Hamburger Hochbahn AG in the winter timetable valid from October 30, 1955, pp. 20/21
- ^ Overview of the early driver cars on the Hanover tram in the 1954 timetable, pp. 138/139
- ↑ P1.65 articulated railcar of the Munich tram at www.strassenbahn-muenchen.de
- ↑ Electric articulated railcar, "Sputnik" 3413 of the Cologne tram on www.kvb-koeln.de ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The course number system of the Bremen tram on www.tramtom.de
- ↑ 4yg conversion wagons of the Deutsche Bundesbahn on www.eisenbahn-harzvorland.de
