RegioSprinter

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RegioSprinter
RegioSprinter of the Vogtlandbahn in Plauen (Vogtl) above train station
RegioSprinter of the Vogtlandbahn in Plauen (Vogtl) above train station
Number: 40
Manufacturer: Siemens / DUEWAG
Year of construction (s): 1995-1999
Axis formula : A'2'A '
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Length over coupling: 24,800 mm
Height: 3450 mm
Width: 2970 mm
Service mass: 49.2 t
Top speed: Rurtalbahn: 120 km / h
Nærumbanen: 120 km / h
Installed capacity: Rur Valley Railway: 2 × 198 kW
Nærumbanen: 2 × 228 kW
Acceleration: 1.1 m / s²
Fuel supply: diesel
Motor type: 2 × MAN D2865 LUH05
Brake: Magnetic rail brake
retarder
Operating mode: diesel-mechanical
Seats: Rurtalbahn: 74 fixed and 10 folding seats.
Nærumbane: 67
GW Train Regio: 65
Standing room: Rurtalbahn: 100
Floor height: 530 mm in the low-floor part, 1130 mm in the high-floor part

The RegioSprinter is a light diesel multiple unit developed and built by Siemens-Duewag for fast regional traffic. The RegioSprinter was initially advertised by the manufacturer as RVT (Regional Combustion Rail Car). It is often classified as class 654 by the railway companies . Although it was only built in small numbers, it is considered to be the pioneer of a new generation of light, inexpensive local railcars for regions away from the metropolitan areas, as the RegioSprinter was the first vehicle that consciously broke away from the massive and thus cumbersome construction of rail vehicles looked for more efficient ways.

history

development

Presentation of the new railcars for the Rurtalbahn route in Jülich, March 25, 1995 - in the background a rail bus of the Düren district railway in regular operation
MdL and District Administrator Adi Retz at the presentation of the new RegioSprinter
Interior of a RegioSprinter on the Rurtalbahn, 2019
RegioSprinter in Düren, 2007

In 1992 the Association of German Transport Companies published a specification for a light, fast-moving and at the same time inexpensive railcar for regional transport. A new generation of vehicles optimized for branch lines was to emerge, which would take over many elements of city ​​buses and tram vehicles . Instead of the frame stiffness of 1500 kN prescribed for rail vehicles, a frame stiffness of 600 kN was used. The loss of passive safety should be countered by a gain in active safety through higher braking decelerations.

In the spring of 1994 , Duewag was the first manufacturer to introduce the RegioSprinter, at that time still under the name RVT . Other concepts that followed immediately afterwards were the Stadler GTW , the double-decker rail bus ( DB series 670 ) from Deutsche Waggonbau AG, and unrealized vehicles from Neoplan and Linke-Hofmann-Busch . (The RegioShuttle from Adtranz (later Stadler) and Talent from Talbot / Bombardier , which are widely used today, were not created until 1996. )

The Dürener Kreisbahn (DKB) was the first to order the RegioSprinter on September 24, 1993. On May 23, 1993, after years of negotiations, it had taken over two regional railway lines from the Deutsche Bundesbahn, which the Bundesbahn operated with high deficits and therefore wanted to switch to bus service. Therefore, the DKB was looking for a rail vehicle that should be as inexpensive as possible, but that enabled short travel times thanks to strong acceleration. In order to reduce costs, the air conditioning and toilets, which were not yet common in local transport at the time, were dispensed with, while the demand for wide doors and low-floor construction was maintained to accelerate the change of passengers (especially with wheelchairs, strollers or bicycles), which at the time was outside the S- Railway networks was a novelty.

Immediately after taking over the route, the Düren district railway initially used Uerdingen rail buses that were over 30 years old on its route network. From the beginning, however, these were only intended as an interim solution and no longer met the requirements for travel comfort at the time. There were also plans to continue the Rurtalbahn trains on the main line to Cologne, which would hardly have been possible with the rail buses and their top speed of 90 km / h.

The first RegioSprinter was presented to the public on March 20, 1995 at Krefeld Nord train station . The delivery took place only 19 months after the contract was signed; the price for a vehicle was 1.58 million German marks . By autumn 1995, the 16 RegioSprinter ordered by the DKB had been delivered, so that they could completely replace the old rail buses in the Düren district. Another RegioSprinter followed in 1996.

In March 1998 the RegioSprinter, which had previously been approved as a light local transport multiple unit and thus only for 100 km / h, were approved for 120 km / h.

Siemens , which had since taken over Duewag, has been selling the Desiro as its successor since 1998 , which was initially marketed as Regiosprinter 2 . The Desiro differs from the RegioSprinter in key points: from the start, it was designed as a full-line vehicle that complies with the relevant standards for tensile and compressive forces and has integral car bodies , a higher mass and a different axle sequence. With a purchase price of around 1.2 million euros, the Desiro is also significantly more expensive.

commitment

Rurtalbahn

From March 1995, the Düren Kreisbahn received a total of 17 RegioSprinters for the lines it took over from Düren - Jülich and Düren - Heimbach , which replaced the rail buses that had previously operated there temporarily on both lines. In 2002 the route Düren - Jülich to Linnich was extended , so that the field of application of the RegioSprinter expanded. In 2003 the DKB was incorporated into the newly founded Rurtalbahn GmbH . In 2010, regular journeys began on the Bördebahn between Düren and Euskirchen, which was closed for passenger traffic in 1983, and until 2019 only took place on weekends and initially only in summer. Here, too, a RegioSprinter from the Rurtalbahn was usually used.

Since the vehicle inventory of DKB and Rurtalbahn contained a generous reserve, RegioSprinter from this railway company were also used on other routes on a temporary basis. Some examples are mentioned here: on behalf of DB Regio NRW the Erft-Bahn Neuss - Bedburg - Horrem (on weekends since September 29, 1996), the RB 37 line in Duisburg (" Der Wedauer ") and the line until December 2017 RB 34 ("Schwalm-Nette-Bahn", Mönchengladbach - Dalheim route ). Düren's RegioSprinter also operated from time to time with other private railways, for example the Dortmund-Märkische Eisenbahn , the Nord-Ostsee-Bahn , the Vias or the Vetter Verkehrsbetriebe .

After the Rurtalbahn acquired more modern railcars of the types RegioShuttle (from 2011) and LINT 54 (from 2017) equipped with air conditioning and toilet , these gradually took over operation, and the RegioSprinter were finally sold to the Czech Republic. On February 25, 2019, the last RegioSprinter left the Düren district.

A special feature was the strikingly colorfully designed Otmar Alt Sprinter (vehicle no. 654 008-1), which was specially converted for special trips in 2002: It was given stickers with motifs by the artist Otmar Alt , a kitchenette, two refrigerators, kettle, coffee and espresso machines, wardrobes for cloakrooms, three bar tables, illuminated tables in face-to-face seating and a music system. The number of seats was reduced to 57 as a result of the renovation work.The Otmar-Alt-Sprinter was also sold to the Czech Republic, since December 2019 it has been in use there together with three other former Düren RegioSprinters for the Czech railway company AŽD Praha in northern Bohemia between Most and Litoměřice . For this purpose, the vehicles were u. a. equipped with air conditioning, sockets, WiFi, toilet facilities and passenger information displays.

Vogtland Railway

RegioSprinter in downtown Zwickau
Railcar of the Vogtlandbahn on the BOStrab route at the Zwickau Zentrum station

The Vogtlandbahn procured since 1996 a total of 18 vehicles for use on routes Zwickau - Adorf / Vogtl. and Plauen - Klingenthal . Since the completion of these routes was delayed again and again after the renovation, the new vehicles initially served the route from Zwickau to Bad Brambach . The railcars were regularly used on the following lines of the Vogtlandbahn:

As a special feature, all the vehicles delivered to the Vogtlandbahn from 1999 onwards were retrofitted in accordance with the BOStrab regulations in order to be able to reach the Zwickau city center using the Zwickau model on a tramway track designed as a three-rail track . Due to the fact that the maximum permissible width of 2.65 m is exceeded by 32 cm, only special tracks can be used and crossings must be designed as level crossings. This, too, is only possible in combination with driving at sight with a special permit . The vehicles are allowed to travel a maximum of 40 km / h in the tram area, as the deceleration prescribed for emergency braking is achieved, but only up to this speed in the event of a brake failure.

Until the timetable change in December 2006, the Vogtlandbahn RegioSprinter was also used on the VB 7 line between Schönberg / Vogtland and Schleiz West . Traffic on this route was canceled on December 9, 2006 by the local public transport company of the Free State of Thuringia.

Furthermore, in 2006 two of the multiple units (VT 36 and VT 39) were leased to Prignitzer Eisenbahn GmbH , which used them on its routes in the western Ruhr area due to a lack of vehicles.

In October 2013, several railcars from the Vogtlandbahn (VT40, VT43 and VT44) were handed over to the Oberpfalzbahn . This used the trains mainly on the Cham – Lam railway line , as their own regional shuttles were being processed until December 2014.

The trains were also used in cross-border traffic on the TL 70 line of the Trilex until April 2015 .

Lyngby – Nærum Jernbane (Denmark)

LNJ Lm 21-25
A RegioSprinter from Nærumbane

The Lyngby-Nærum Jernbane (LNJ) in space Copenhagen procured 1996 first and 1998 four other multiple units of the type RegioSprinter. They were given the series designation LNJ Lm and the road numbers 21-25 and were used on the route between Nærum and Jægersborg . A noticeable difference to the RegioSprinters of the Rurtalbahn are the large rail clearers designed as snow clearers at the vehicle ends.

The Lm 21 was presented in September 1996 with a presentation tour on all Danish private railways. On October 12, 1998, the multiple unit collided with the LNJ YM 20 at the Jægersborg depot, suffered a total loss and was scrapped in the same year.

LB Lm 22-25

From 2002 the operation on the only eight kilometer long route was carried out by the Lokalbanen A / S (LB), which had taken over several smaller railway companies in the Copenhagen area. At this point in time, the railcars became the property of Hovedstadens Lokalbaner , who rented them out to LB. There they were given the company numbers LB Lm 22-25 (UIC designation: 95 86 0654 022-X - 95 86 0654 025-X).

From this time on, they were gradually given the local railroad paint in light gray and yellow. On July 1, 2015, Lokalbanen A / S was merged with Regionstog to form Lokaltog A / S; this new company comprises various formerly independent private railways on Zealand and Lolland.

NÖVOG

0654 035 of the NÖVOG in Drosendorf station

After Vogtlandbahn put five RegioSprinter up for sale at the end of 2015, Niederösterreichische Verkehrsorganisationsgesellschaft (NÖVOG) acquired five vehicles for a total of 3.5 million euros to use them on the Wachau Railway and the Retz – Drosendorf railway line for occasional tourist traffic. In the Vogtlandbahn workshop in Neumark , the vehicles were equipped with a closed on- board toilet , a new air conditioning system and a new gray-gold paint job. The first test drives on the Wachau Railway took place in March 2016, followed by the presentation of the first three vehicles and the first public trips on March 31, 2016. The other two vehicles were transferred in May 2016.

GW Train Regio

RegioSprinter from GW Train Regio in Strakonice station

For the traffic between Marianske Lazne and Karlovy Vary , the Czech railway company GW Train Regio acquired 15 RegioSprinter from the Rurtalbahn in 2015, after RegioSprinter from the Vogtlandbahn had already been used. Before the commissioning, a modernization was carried out at CZ Loko , which also included toilets. On May 25, 2017, two vehicles were sold by the Vogtlandbahn to GWTR (VT45 and VT48). A third railcar (VT47) of the Vogtlandbahn was transferred to GW Train on August 25, 2017.

Since December 2017, three railway lines (České Budějovice - Nové Údolí, Číčenice - Nové Údolí, Strakonice - Volary) in South Bohemia have been operated by GW Train Regio (instead of České dráhy), also with the RegioSprinters.

AŽD Praha

Regional sprinter from AŽD Praha (Lovosice 2019)

For the local rail on the line U10 of the Regio clock Ústecký kraj Czech railway company acquired AŽD Praha four used vehicles from Rurtalbahn . CZ Loko gave the vehicles a fundamental modernization and the technical facilities for autonomous operation. Since December 15, 2019, they have been running on schedule on the Čížkovice – Obrnice railway line on the Litoměřice – Most route, which has been reactivated for passenger traffic .

Technology and equipment

View of the two wheel sets of the middle section with the magnetic rail brake
Cab of the Czech GW Train RegioSprinter
Entrance door for a Rurtalbahn vehicle; in the background the Otmar-Alt-Sprinter
Artistically designed Otmar-Alt-Sprinter 2012 in Euskirchen as " BördeExpress " to Düren

The vehicles are designed as double-articulated railcars with a diesel-mechanical drive . The driver's cabs are located in the two longer end modules and one of the two drive units that drive the individual steering wheel set of the respective end module are located under the high-floor end compartments . Between the end modules there is a much shorter, non-powered module with two non-powered wheel sets. The vehicle was designed by Alexander Neumeister , who also designed individual series of the ICE , Shinkansen and Transrapid .

The drive units consist of a diesel engine , the automatic transmission with five stages, starter , air filter , cooler and a silencer ; they use a common support frame that is suspended below the car body. The manufacturer of the engines, which were originally developed for use in buses , is MAN . The engines of the vehicles for the Rurtalbahn meet the Euro I emissions standard , the Nærumbanen ordered a more powerful version with Euro II engines. Braking is carried out by the retarder integrated in the transmission , electropneumatic brakes with brake discs on the wheel sets and a magnetic rail brake in the middle section of the vehicle. When braking quickly , a braking deceleration of 2.73 m / s² can be achieved; a value that is at the level of tram vehicles.

The on- board network of the RegioSprinter carries a voltage of 24 volts , when the diesel engine is running it is fed by an alternator , when the diesel engine is switched off it is fed by two batteries with a nominal charge of 24 Ah . The RegioSprinter can also be connected to an external power supply using the batteries.

The construction of the car body shows the first signs of hybrid construction : As in conventional differential construction , the aluminum frame is welded. The side walls are screwed based on the tram production. The driver's cab modules of the RegioSprinter are made of glass fiber reinforced plastic and are glued to the car body. The roof is made in a sandwich construction with two aluminum plates and an inner layer made of plastic in order to save weight and to isolate the interior.

Two thirds of the vehicle are designed as a low-floor design, the entry height is 530 mm. The height of the interior from the floor to the ceiling is therefore up to 2700 mm. The passenger transfer time to lower compared to older light diesel railcars, wide doors with 1,300 mm internal diameter installed. One ramp per vehicle is available for wheelchair users. The seating is installed in the arrangement 2 + 3; a toilet was dispensed with because of the short travel distances planned. The Vogtlandbahn later had to retrofit all vehicles with toilets, otherwise cross-border use to the Czech Republic would not have been possible.

The vehicles of the Rurtalbahn and the Danish Nærumbane are equipped with screw couplings , while those of the Vogtlandbahn are equipped with Scharfenberg couplings.

literature

  • Richard Latten: Yearbook of European Railways 1997. transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71042-7 , p. 9 ff.

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ A b c Richard Latten: Yearbook of European Railways 1997 . transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71042-7 , p. 22
  3. ↑ Sebastian Tuschick: Profile "RegioSprinter". Archived from the original on January 15, 2017 ; accessed on January 15, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Peter Jacques: The DUEWAG RegioSprinter. In: Eisenbahn-Kurier 4/95, pp. 50–52.
  5. ↑ a b Report on the comeback of the rail bus. In: Eisenbahn-Kurier 2/95, pp. 26–29.
  6. ↑ The Siemens Regio Sprinter. In: Regionalverkehr (online archive). Regionalverkehr Verlag GmbH, Munich, January 1997, accessed on June 12, 2020 .
  7. ^ Günter Koch: Stadtbahn auf Eisenbahn: Notes on the legal and technical boundary conditions. Archived from the original on January 20, 2017 ; accessed on January 17, 2017 (last picture).
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  11. ↑ The Otmar Alt Sprinter. Rurtalbahn GmbH website, accessed on September 2, 2015.
  12. ↑ Moritz Lötzgen: The DUEWAG / Siemens RegioSprinter. In: Series654.de. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
  13. ↑ § 34 paragraph 3 number 1 BOStrab
  14. ↑ a b Martin Karr: Multi-system concepts for railways in Europe. Chapter 4.1 Zwickau . 1998, accessed January 17, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Moritz Lötzgen: vehicle data. (No longer available online.) In: baureihe654.de.tl. Archived from the original on February 14, 2016 ; accessed on January 15, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Martin Karr: Multi-system concepts for railways in Europe. Chapter 7 Special features of individual projects . 1998, accessed January 17, 2017 .
  17. ↑ The trilex with regional partnerships: New vehicle type in use from Sunday. Trilex, April 10, 2015, accessed May 20, 2015 .
  18. ↑ Motor locomotives. Lyngby – Nærum Jernbane. In: jernbanen.dk. Retrieved February 7, 2018 (Danish).
  19. ↑ LNJ Lm 21. Lyngby – Nærum Jernbane. In: jernbanen.dk. Retrieved February 7, 2018 (Danish).
  20. ^ Richard Latten: Yearbook of European Railways 1997 . transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71042-7 , p. 88
  21. ^ A b Jan Dvorák: RegioSprinters for Wachau Railway. In: Railvolution 2/2016, p. 13.
  22. ↑ 'New' vehicles for NÖVOG. March 24, 2016. Retrieved March 24, 2016 .
  23. ↑ Regio Sprinter RVT. GW Train Regio as, November 17, 2016, accessed November 18, 2019 .
  24. ↑ "vlaky per Švestkovou dráhu odhaleny. Spojení Lovosice - Most zvládnou rychleji než autobusy ”on vlaky.net

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