SNCF X 2770

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The series X 2770 was a single-engine diesel railcars of the French state railway SNCF , which as RGP1 for TEE service was one called the "Rames à grand parcours" (RGP) Remote railcars.

The 11 vehicles built were delivered by De Dietrich and SACM in 1955 and 1956 . Paul Arzens was responsible for the design .

Largely identical to the Series X 2720 who received air-conditioned units of motor car (car numbers X 2771 to X 2781) and suitable examples and control cars , the TEE paint Bordeaux / cream and for cross-border traffic in part, a three- or Vierlicht- headlights . They only ran 1st  class and had a kitchen. One of these trains was used for the French President's business trips.

The trains came as TEE 155/190 “Parsifal” in 1958 and 1959 from, among other places, the Gare du Nord station in Paris to Dortmund . From 1960 the Parsifal was extended to Hamburg , for which the short X 2770 was no longer sufficient. It was therefore replaced by German class VT 11.5 multiple units . Instead, the X 2770 now drove as TEE 185 “Paris-Ruhr” to Düsseldorf (in the opposite direction as TEE 168 “Ruhr-Paris”), where the VT 11.5 was previously used. In addition, the trains were used for TEE connections from Paris to Zurich (TEE 47/40 "Arbalète"), Brussels (TEE 125/128 "Étoile du Nord"), as a cross connection Brussels - Zurich via Strasbourg (TEE 31/30 "Edelweiss") and used separately from Lyon to Turin (TEE 631/632 "Mont-Cenis") and from Marseille to Geneva (TEE "Rhodanien"). All of these connections were switched to locomotive-hauled trains or the much longer German VT 11.5 by 1965 at the latest.

After the withdrawal from the TEE services, these vehicles were rebuilt from 1972, largely adapted to the ETG and RTG types and incorporated in two parts into the X 2720 series. The kitchen was removed and a 2nd class area installed; their company numbers changed from X 2739 to X 2749.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georges Mathieu: Le matériel moteur de la SNCF . 1st edition. Éditions La Vie du Rail, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-902808-48-8 , p. 224 f .
  2. ^ Paul Arzens, le précurseur in: La vie du Rail 2196/1989, p. 18.
  3. ↑ a b Lok Magazin 12/2017, p. 73.
  4. ↑ TEE Parsifal , accessed December 24, 2017
  5. ↑ 1st class to Paris in: Bahn Extra 2/2017, p. 62 ff.
  6. ↑ RGP 1 X 2720 SNCF at trains-europe.fr, accessed on December 23, 2017