SBB red arrow
Light railcars built by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) in the 1930s are known as the Red Arrows . They were intended for traffic on lines with a low volume of traffic, also with the background of the global economic crisis from 1928. With increasing demand, the railcars had to be replaced by light express trains. A new area of activity was found for the popular railcars in excursion traffic.
Model series
Among other things, the following light railcars are meant (last wagon number):
- SBB RAe 2/4 1001-1002
- SBB RBe 2/4 1003-1007
- SBB RCm 2/4 1008-1009, later converted to electric multiple units RBe 2/4 1008-1009
- SBB RAe 4/8 1021 Churchill arrow
- SBB RAe 4/8 1022-1023 double arrow
Related models
The SBB RBe 2/4 1010 , which was officially marked as Flêche du Jura when it went into operation , was - technically related to the Red Arrows - never counted among the Red Arrows, but called the Jura Arrow. It also lacked the characteristic low stems. These were also missing in the two double arrows 1022 and 1023, but at least had the characteristic red color and as a pure company cars were also equipped with luxurious facilities.
The two RABFe 8/12 501 and 502, called the Tatzelwurm, were also technically related to the Red Arrows . Both vehicles were converted after fires, vehicle 501 that was converted to RABFe 4/8 1031 was affected first . When the second, now renumbered RABDe 8/12 1041, also burned, the two trains were formed into the RABDe 8/16 1041 .
inventory
Company number | Installation | current status | comment |
---|---|---|---|
101 = 611 = 1008 | 1935 | discarded and scrapped after Expo 64 | originally diesel drive, 1951 conversion to electric drive |
102 = 612 = 1009 | 1935 | discarded and scrapped after Expo 64 | Originally diesel drive, converted to electric drive in 1953 |
201 = 601 = 1001 | 1935 | as a historic vehicle at SBB Historic (drivable) | Conversion to RAe 2/4 |
202 = 602 = 1006 | 1935 | Discarded in December 1967, canceled | Anomaly in the numbering, number swap with rebuilt 606 |
203 = 603 = 1003 | 1936 | discarded in January 1968, today in the Verkehrshaus Luzern (not drivable) | |
204 = 604 = 1004 | 1936 | Discarded in December 1968, canceled | |
205 = 605 = 1005 | 1936 | Discarded in November 1966, canceled | |
206 = 606 = 1002 | 1936 | Discarded in August 1984, canceled | Anomaly in the numbering due to conversion to RAe 2/4 |
207 = 607 = 1007 | 1938 | Discarded in January 1974, sold to the Oensingen-Balsthal-Bahn in 1974 , used for extra trips throughout Switzerland | |
701 = 621 = 1010 | 1938 | Retired in 1977, canceled in the summer of 1978 | Flêche du Jura |
301 = 651 = 1021 | 1939 | Charter vehicle owned by SBB (drivable) | Churchill arrow |
661 = 1022 | 1953 | Canceled in 1980 | Double arrow |
662 = 1023 | 1953 | Canceled in 1985 | Double arrow |
501 = 311 = 671 = 1031 | 1938 | 1964, 1041 for RABDe 8/16 1041 connected | Tatzelwurm |
502 = 691 = 1041 | 1937 | retired and canceled in June 1968 | Tatzelwurm |
See also
- Blue arrows of the BLS Group and the Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD)
literature
- Christian Zellweger: Red Arrow - Legend on rails . SBB Historic, SBB Historical Heritage Foundation. AS, Zurich, 2010, ISBN 978-3-909111-77-0 .
- Sandro Sigrist, Heinz Sigrist: Red arrows, the legendary railcars , GeraMond, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-932785-26-6 .
- W. Müller: The Swiss CLe 2/4 light electric multiple units. Federal Railways . Schweizerische Bauzeitung, Volume 107 (1936), Issue 4 (E-Periodica, PDF 3.6 MB)
Web links
- The SBB Red Arrows ( Memento from February 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) by Bruno Lämmli