SVG light railcars
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.jpg) Inauguration of an SVG light railcar
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| Numbering: | LT 1 - LT 5 |
| Number: | 5 |
| Manufacturer: | Borgward , Sylt transport company |
| Year of construction (s): | 1952-1954 |
| Retirement: | 1970 |
| Axis formula : | (1A) (2) |
| Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | 15,430 mm |
| Height: | 2,950 mm |
| Width: | 2,500 mm |
| Trunnion Distance: | 7,780 mm |
| Bogie axle base: | 1,200 mm |
| Fixed wheelbase: | 3,475 mm |
| Empty mass: | 10.6 t |
| Top speed: | 50 km / h |
| Installed capacity: | 90 hp / 95 hp |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 780 mm |
| Impeller diameter front: | 780 mm |
| Rear wheel diameter: | 710 mm |
| Power transmission: | mechanically |
| Seats: | 53 |
| Standing room: | 35 |
| Classes : | 2. |
The SVG light railcars are multiple units of the Sylter Verkehrsgesellschaft (SVG) that were used on the former Sylter Inselbahn . The car bodies were considered semi-trailers from the SVG in our own workshop on upgraded for rail operation Borg Ward - Tractor built.
history
In the early 1950s, the Sylt Inselbahn needed light locomotives for its light superstructure in sand bedding. The used railcars offered were often too heavy. So they came up with the unconventional solution of using normal Borgward type B 4500 trucks as tractors with trailers as wagons.
After a multiple unit had been successfully (re) built, four more multiple units were gradually created, which were given the numbers LT 1 to LT 5. However, they differed from one another at least in part. The LT 5 had a different trailer design, and initially a double flap door before it also received a sliding door, which, however, was not installed on the inside as with the other vehicles, but on the outside. The LT 1 had a double rubbing strip under the windows, the later vehicles only a single one. The semitrailer and tractor unit were probably also swapped with one another, the vehicle number was only written on the semitrailer.
Initially, the railcars were painted ivory, in the end they were painted in slightly different shades of red with a cream-colored ribbon of windows. In between there were many other colors, e.g. B. the driver's cab completely in red or ivory / blue colors (LT 3 and 4) or ivory / green (LT 5) car body. From the mid-1960s, the railcars carried outdoor advertising for Nivea and Beck's brewery.
The railcars also had names at times: Schöne Insel Sylt , Westerland , Hörnum , Kampen , and List .
Since the multiple units as a way vehicles could only drive the tractor forward, they had to be turned over at the end points. For this purpose, turntables were built in Westerland, List and Hörnum . A balancing lever coupling was attached to the trailer in order to couple the sidecar or other passenger or luggage wagons, up to two wagons could be pulled. At the front of the towing car, only a baffle plate was attached to the bumper, which was supposed to prevent maneuvering damage.
In addition, two passenger cars (No. 6 and 7) were built in a similar design as a sidecar, an existing passenger car was rebuilt in a similar design, it was longer than the other sidecars, had larger, rubber-framed, rounded windows and an external sliding door.
Constructive features
The truck chassis were fitted with railway wheels for this purpose, these had a rubber element between the wheel center and the wheel tire . The front axle was equipped with the original axle bearings, the rear axle also received an external bearing attached to the chassis with spring assemblies. At least one of the cabs had - at least at times - a man hatch above the passenger seat, as in the case of the disaster control trucks , which were manufactured at the same time.
The car body was made with U-profiles in lightweight construction, the outer wall cladding was made of 1 mm sheet steel. The roof section was made of sheet metal in the rounded area, and in the middle of wood covered with cloth. The bogies for the rear support of the car body came from decommissioned passenger cars. A wide sliding door was installed in the middle on both sides. There were three windows on each side, two windows in the front, and a large window with two corner windows at the rear.
Whereabouts
Only the LT 4 remained, which came to the Hanover Tram Museum in 1978 via various stations . The managing director of Sylter Adler-Schiff GmbH bought the vehicle in 2013 to restore it. The restoration has now started. In 2017, the superstructures were refurbished to such an extent that they can be fitted with wheelsets again. Up to 2020, € 200,000 had been spent on the restoration, but the project has stalled for budget reasons, and a further € 100,000 must be raised.
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Stöver: About the island railway and the Sylt bathing ships . Schleswiger Druck- und Verlagshaus, Schleswig 1979, ISBN 3-88242-043-X
- eisenbahn-magazin 10/2005, p. 67/68
- Markus Klünder, Hans W. Rogl: Sylter Borgward . in: eisenbahn-magazin 3/2012, pp. 6–12
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pictures at www.Inselbahn.de
- ^ Sylt: The Insel-Express returns , Hamburger Morgenpost from June 8, 2013.
- ↑ Borgward railcar receives refurbishment . In: railway magazine . No. 8 , 2017, ISSN 0342-1902 , p. 31 .
- ↑ https://sylter-duenenexpress.de/tagebuch