SSIF BCFe 4/4
| SSIF / FRT BCFe 4/4 SSIF / FART ABDe 4/4 |
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 ABDe 4/4 17 in Locarno S. Antonio.
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| Numbering: | 11-18 |
| Number: | 8th |
| Manufacturer: | CeT TIBB |
| Year of construction (s): | 1923 |
| Retirement: | 1959– |
| Axis formula : | Bo'Bo ' |
| Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | 14400 mm |
| Service mass: | 30 t |
| Friction mass: | 30 t |
| Top speed: | 45 km / h |
| Hourly output : | (418 HP) |
| Power system : | 1200 V DC |
| Power transmission: | Overhead line |
| Train brake: | Compressed air |
| Coupling type: | Central buffer with 2 screw couplings |
| Seats: | 36 |
The BCFe 4/4 are the first eight electric railcars that the Società subalpina di imprese ferroviarie ( SSIF ) acquired together with the Società delle Ferrovie Regionali Ticinesi ( FRT , predecessor of FART ) in 1923 for the opening of the line between Locarno and Domodossola. The railcars 11–16 originally belonged to the SIFF, the railcars 17 + 18 to the FRT.
On the occasion of the abolition of 1st class and the subsequent class reform, the railcars were renamed ABFe 4/4 in 1956 and from 1960 on ABDe 4/4 .
history
The vehicles were manufactured by Carminati e Toselli in Milan. The electrical equipment was supplied by the BBC subsidiary Tecnomasio Italiano Brown Boveri , which is why the BBC itself is occasionally found as a supplier in the literature. The vehicles were able to carry a trailer load of 65 tons on the ramp with a gradient of 60 per thousand and reached 20 kilometers per hour. Until the middle of the 1950s, the entire operation was handled with the vehicles. They were renamed around 1956 because, like all vehicles, they were adapted to the new class division at that time. Today they are known as ABDe 4/4 . With the commissioning of the four ABe 8/8 , which took over the international express trains, they moved into the second row.
Three vehicles (11, 14, 15) fell victim to fires and were then demolished. Railcar 18 was damaged in a collision with ABe 8/8 22 on August 13, 1967, and then rebuilt. Railcar number 12 also collided with ABe 8/8 22 in October 1980 and was subsequently scrapped. Railcar 16 got a new steel car body in the SSIF workshop in 1975, railcar 17 was modernized in 1962 before it was sold by FART to SSIF in 1967.
| number | SSIF | FART | modification | Scrapping |
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| 11 | 1923– | - | - | 1959 |
| 12 | 1923– | - | - | 1980 |
| 13 | 1923– | - | - | |
| 14th | 1923– | - | - | 1966 |
| 15th | 1923– | - | - | 1973 |
| 15th | 1923 | - | - | 1959 |
| 16 | 1923– | - | 1975 | |
| 17th | 1967– | 1923-1967 | 1962 | |
| 18th | - | 1923 | 1967 |
Trivia
When two of the three railcars on the Locarno – Ponte Brolla – Bignasco railway were damaged in a head-on collision in 1945, a replacement vehicle was urgently needed. For this reason, the pantograph above the luggage compartment of railcar No. 18 was removed and replaced with a contact rod. Afterwards it operated for a month on the Maggia Valley Railway before it was withdrawn again. In 1962 it was used again on an experimental basis and from 1964/65 regularly on the Maggia Valley Railway. After the line was closed, the contact rod was removed and a second pantograph was installed again.
literature
- Peter Willen: Locomotives and railcars of the Swiss Railways, Volume 4 Private Railways Central, Southern and Eastern Switzerland Orell Füssli (1st edition) 1983, ISBN 3-280-01301-1 , pages 55–58
Individual evidence
- ^ Markus Schweyckart: Electric Railway Locarno – Ponte Brolla – Bignasco . Prellbock Druck & Verlag, Leissigen 1997, ISBN 3-907579-05-4 , pages 117–119