Roland (train)
Roland was a train of the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB), which from 1951 established a long-distance connection between northern and southern Germany, later to Italy , via Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof .
Surname
The name is derived from the Bremen Roland , the symbol of the city of Bremen and, together with its town hall, recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site since 2004 .
history
The Roland was initially a long-distance express train , carried train numbers F43 / 44 and only the (old) 2nd class , after the class reform of 1956 only the (new) 1st class. It initially traveled on the Bremen – Frankfurt route, namely via the Main-Weser Railway . In Hanover Central Station there was a transition to the Blue Gentian . As of the winter timetable vehicles were sufficiently new railcars - series VT 08 5 available: The train now reversed as "FT" and the path was south to Basel SBB be extended. There were connections to Switzerland and Italy here, and from 1961 to 1963 the “Roland” itself drove to Zurich . From 1963 the train ran as a locomotive-hauled wagon train. In 1967 the train numbers changed to F 46/47, in 1968 the route of the train began and ended in Mannheim, travelers were referred to the Trans-Europ-Express (TEE) Rheingold for connections to and from the south . From the 1969 summer timetable , the "Roland" itself became a TEE and now ran with train numbers TEE 78/79 to and from Milan .
literature
- Peter Goette: Light F-Trains of the Deutsche Bundesbahn . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-88255-729-9 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Town hall and statue of Roland in Bremen . German UNESCO Commission eV. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
- ↑ Goette, p. 94.
- ↑ Goette, p. 95.
- ↑ Goette, p. 96.