Protection car

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Transportation of Castor containers in Biblis station for the transport of nuclear waste from the Biblis nuclear power plant : Between the two Castor containers enclosed with a blue cover there are four protective wagons
Court procession of the Duke of York, later King George VI. , near Dunedin , New Zealand , 1927, with two guard cars behind the locomotives

Protection wagons (also: security wagons ) are railway wagons that are placed on a train to protect people and goods .

Todays use

Barge wagons are used today for the transport of extra long loads, certain special transports such as B. Castor containers with nuclear material and when using special company cars such as a crane truck .

Historical use

In the times of steam operation , barrier wagons on passenger trains were lined up between the locomotive and its tender on the one hand and the following passenger cars on the other. They were either empty or were used as luggage carts . Courtyard trains always ran with a barrier wagon. The protection carriage was at a railway accident help the momentum to take the train. In addition, protection wagons had to be set between wagons with dangerous goods and passenger wagons on mixed trains carrying goods and passengers. This was intended to protect passengers from the danger posed by the cargo, such as flammable goods or slipping logs. Most railway companies had regulations on the use of the barrier wagons. Mail wagons were usually not allowed to act as a protection wagon because mail was sorted in them by officials during the journey.

At the Deutsche Reichsbahn , protection wagons in public transport passenger trains were abolished on October 8, 1933.

literature

Freiherr von Röll: Encyclopedia of the Railway System . tape 8 . Berlin, Vienna 1917, p. 421 ff . ( zeno.org [accessed July 23, 2010]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Hrsg.): Collection of the published official gazettes . Born 1898, No. 51 of February 5, 1898, p. 36, Announcement No. 51.
  2. ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of October 7, 1933, No. 46. Announcement No. 557, p. 206.