SB Tw 20-29
| SB Tw 20–29 / BBÖ Tw 20–29 / DR ET 198 / DR EB 198 | |
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 SB Tw 28 with sidecar
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| Numbering: | SB Tw 20–29 BBÖ Tw 20–29 DR ET 198 01–02 DR EB 198 01–02 |
| Number: | 10 |
| Manufacturer: |
Graz Ganz & Co. , Budapest , Siemens & Halske |
| Year of construction (s): | 1903 |
| Axis formula : | Bo |
| Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) |
| Length over coupling: | 8,850 m |
| Length: | 7,940 m |
| Height: | 3.265 m |
| Width: | 2,200 m |
| Total wheelbase: | 3,000 m |
| Empty mass: | 8.6 t |
| Top speed: | 20 km / h |
| Wheel diameter: | 750 mm |
| Power system : | 550 V = |
| Number of traction motors: | 2 |
| Seats: | 21st |
| Standing room: | 24 |
| Floor height: | 895 mm |
The SB Tw 20-29 were electric narrow-gauge railcars of the Austrian Southern Railway (SB).
history
Use on the Mödling – Hinterbrühl local railway
The vehicles were procured in 1903 for operation on the Mödling – Hinterbrühl local railway . They became necessary because the eight railcars of the SB Tw 1-15 series from 1883 were no longer sufficient to handle the traffic. At the same time, the power supply in the power station in Mödling was converted . In addition, the overhead line was redesigned so that only one line was required and the return line was via the rails. The eight old railcars were converted into sidecars.
When the BBÖ took over operations on the local railway in 1924 , it kept the vehicle numbers of the vehicles. After the railway was closed in 1932, the vehicles were parked.
Remaining after 1932
After the annexation of Austria , the Deutsche Reichsbahn moved four of the railcars parked since 1932 to the Saxon narrow-gauge railway Klingenthal – Sachsenberg-Georgenthal . Specifically, these were the numbers 20, 21, 26 and 27. They were subsequently given closed entry platforms, funnel couplings , direction indicators and a pantograph and were used from 1939, but two cars were converted into sidecars before 1945 due to their poor performance. The cars have been renamed as follows:
- Tw 20 = ET 198 01
- Tw 21 = ET 198 02
- Tw 26 = EB 198 01
- Tw 27 = EB 198 02
In 1946, the ET 198 02 received a new car body at the Dessau Reich repair shop, which was optically strongly based on the existing Klingenthal vehicles built in 1917 . As a special feature, however, after its conversion it only had doors on one side of the vehicle . This was only possible because all platforms on the Klingenthal – Sachsenberg-Georgenthal narrow-gauge railway were on the same side.
After the modernization of the vehicle fleet between 1956 and 1958, the Austrian vehicles in Klingenthal became unnecessary and, with the exception of the modernized ET 198 02 car (which remained in the fleet as a reserve vehicle), were retired and scrapped by 1959 at the latest. After the Klingenthaler Bahn ceased operations in 1964, the ET 198 02 came to the Plauen tram together with the new vehicles from the Klingenthaler Bahn, where it was no longer used and was not given a new number. Rather, it was refurbished in 1967 and given the historically incorrect number 22 and returned to its Austrian homeland in the same year as a gift from the Plauen city administration. There it was erected as a memorial on a short piece of rail opposite the parish church in Hinterbrühl . However, due to ongoing damage from weather and vandalism, it came to the Austrian Omnibus Museum (ÖOM) in Ternitz in 1998 , where it has since been kept inaccessible in a hall.
The remaining railcars were sold to the tram in Teplitz-Schönau (today: Teplice in the Czech Republic ). Cars 24 and 25 came from there pretty soon to Brüx (today: Most), where they were rarely used as replacement vehicles. Of the remaining four cars, two were converted into work cars. When spare parts for the electrical systems could no longer be obtained, three railcars were converted into sidecars.
Sidecar number 14 remained missing until 1982 after a railroad worker removed it from the stock of the railway that was parked at Mödling station until 1939. Today it belongs to the Mödlinger Stadtverkehrmuseum, which was set up in the former vehicle hall of the local railway. However, it is currently in Amstetten , where it is being reconstructed.
literature
- Manfred Hohn , Dieter Stanfel, Hellmuth Figlhuber: Mödling – Hinterbrühl - Europe's first electric train for continuous operation . Slezak publishing house, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-85416-079-8 .