Saxon I MET
| I MET DR ET 197 21 and ET 197 22 |
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| Numbering: | I MET 1-2 ET 197 21-22 |
| Number: | 2 |
| Manufacturer: |
Waggon construction and machine factory, formerly Busch Siemens-Schuckert |
| Year of construction (s): | 1916 |
| Retirement: | 1959 |
| Axis formula : | Bo |
| Genre : | CelT |
| Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | 8280 mm |
| Length: | 7600 mm |
| Width: | 2140 mm |
| Total wheelbase: | 2200 mm |
| Service mass: | 11.3 t |
| Top speed: | 30 km / h |
| Continuous output : | 66 kW |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 800 mm |
| Power system : | 650 V = |
| Power transmission: | Overhead line |
| Number of traction motors: | 2 |
| Drive: | Paw camp |
| Brake: | Westinghouse air brake |
| Seats: | 18th |
| Standing room: | 10 |
| Classes : | 3. |
As Genus I MET designated Royal Saxon State Railways , the electric motor car for the passenger of the narrow-gauge railway Klingenthal Sachsenbergstraße-George Thal .
history
The two railcars were procured for the route from Klingenthal to Sachsenberg-Georgenthal , which was the only Saxon narrow-gauge railway to be electrified with 650 volts DC due to its tram-like operation . The electrical equipment was supplied by the Siemens-Schuckert works in Berlin , while the mechanical part was built by the wagon construction and machine factory, formerly Busch in Bautzen .
In 1917, two trailer cars were made to match the railcars, which differed from the railcars only in that they had no drive. They were given the road numbers 11M and 12M. A third sidecar with the number 13M was delivered in 1926.
Initially, the railcars in Klingenthal were parked unused because the beginning of the war interrupted the construction work on the line. The electrical systems in Klingenthal were not completed until April 16, 1917. The scheduled electrical operation began on May 14, 1917.
The Deutsche Reichsbahn later gave the two railcars the new numbers ET 197 21 and ET 197 22, and the sidecars the numbers EB 197 21 to 23.
Until 1939 - when four railcars of the Mödling – Hinterbrühl local railway arrived in Klingenthal - the two railcars handled all passenger traffic on the narrow-gauge railway. It was not until 1956 and 1958 that new Gotha railcars were put into service that the old vehicles were hardly ever used. In 1959, both cars were retired and scrapped a little later. The sidecar was not taken out of stock until 1963.
literature
- Erich Preuss, Reiner Preuss: Narrow gauge railways in Saxony . 1st edition. transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-71079-X .
- Rainer Heinrich: The Klingenthal narrow-gauge railway and the history of the Klingenthal standard-gauge station . 2nd Edition. Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 2000, ISBN 3-933613-27-2 .
- Horst Joachim Obermayer: Paperback German railcars . 6th edition. Franckh Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-440-04054-2 .
- Rainer Fischer, Sven Hoyer, Joachim Schulz: The wagons of the Saxon secondary railways . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1998, ISBN 3-88255-682-X .