City railway Vienna E 6
The type E 6 is a six-axle bi - directional articulated multiple unit of the Wiener Verkehrsbetriebe (WVB). They were built from 1979 by Lohner and Rotax as a replacement for the outdated N 1 and 2 vehicles for use on the belt line of the former Viennese electric light rail .
When the Vienna Stadtbahn was integrated into the Vienna underground network and the conversion of the belt line for operation with the U-Bahn railcars would have been too time-consuming, a new generation of railcars was urgently needed. As a replacement for the outdated types N and N 1 , the WVB therefore ordered six-axle articulated drives and sidecars based on the Mannheim type in 1979 . The cars are two-part and designed as bidirectional vehicles .
The vehicles were completely replaced by the Type T 1 vehicles in 2008 . Six three-car trains were sold to Utrecht in 2008 . The Krakow tram also took over some E 6s and expanded them with low-floor center sections to form eight-axle vehicles under the type designation EU8N . In addition, the Utrecht E 6 cars were sold to Krakow in 2014, where they were also converted.
An original motor car and a sidecar have been preserved in the Remise Transport Museum .
literature
- Stefan Göbel, Dierk Lowrenz, Ernst-Andreas Weigert: 1000 rail vehicles , Naumann & Göbel Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne, ISBN 978-3-625-12225-8
Web links
- Type E6 / c6 wiener-untergrund.at