Senator (train)

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From 1952 to 1999, Senator was the name for several long-distance connections in the high-quality passenger traffic of the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) between different destinations, which included either Hamburg or Bremen .

VT 10.501 as senator

Surname

The name of the train is derived from the designation for the members of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen , the traditional executive bodies of the Hanseatic cities .

Trains

Ft 41/42 (1952 to 1963)

The first connection to receive this name was a long-distance express train (F-Zug). From the summer schedule of 1951 it operated between Frankfurt (Main) and Hamburg-Altona via Bebra . The train did not get the name until a year later. As an F-Zug, it only ran the (old) 2nd class , after the class reform of 1956 only the (new) 1st class. He drove in the outskirts of the day, north in the morning, south in the afternoon / evening. Diesel multiple units of the VT 08 5 series were initially used .

From the summer of 1954, the connection was to be made with the new class VT 10.501 multiple unit. But that didn't always succeed, as the new vehicle had to be withdrawn very often for workshop visits and test drives. A train hauled by a locomotive operated as an alternative . In the 1955 timetable, the train ran temporarily on the Main-Weser Railway and Kassel . From the end of 1956, the operationally unreliable VT 10.501 was not used and the connection was again operated with VT 08 as planned. Since the number of railcars in this series was scarce, locomotive-hauled wagon trains were also used repeatedly.

D 41/42 (1963 to 1970)

In the summer of 1963 the Senator was converted into a two-class express train . It was now hauled by a locomotive and was made up of UIC-X cars and an old-style dining car or an AR4üm half dining car; There were also half baggage car and some days Bahnpostwagen carried. The train route was now Wiesbaden - Frankfurt (Main) - Kassel Hbf - Hanover - Hamburg.

In 1966 the route was changed; The train now ran between Bremerhaven-Lehe and Wiesbaden via Bremen , Hanover, Kassel, Gießen and Frankfurt (Main), although for tariff reasons it ran between Frankfurt and Wiesbaden, later also from Bremen to Bremerhaven as an express train , and the rest of the route as an express train has been. From 1967 onwards, the electrification of the Main-Weser-Bahn allowed the entire length of the train to be covered with electric locomotives . From 1969, instead of the half-dining car, a BRbuümh buffet car was used.

D 670/671 (1970 to 1979)

Between the 1970 summer schedule and 1978/1979 winter schedule, the Senator operated between Bremerhaven-Lehe and Wiesbaden under the number D 670/671. From 1974 the buffet car was discontinued and the train carried a minibar instead .

IC 516/517 (1979 to 1982)

With the commissioning of the IC'79 system in the 1979 summer timetable, the Senator became a line 1 train between Hamburg and Munich via Bremen, Dortmund , Cologne and Stuttgart . The train initially consisted of an open seating car and two first class compartment cars , a dining car and up to seven second class compartment cars; it was hauled by locomotives of the DB class 103 .

IC 515/516 (1982 to 1985)

IC 515 on October 10, 1984 on the left stretch of the Rhine

From 1982 the train number was changed to 515 (Hamburg - Munich) and 516 (Munich - Hamburg). The train now also ran air-conditioned open-plan cars in second class.

IC 504/505 (1985 to 1988)

With the change in the IC network in 1985, the route of line 1 and with it the route of the Senator was changed, under the new train number 504/505 the train now ran between Hamburg and Frankfurt (Main) via Bremen, Dortmund, Cologne and Wiesbaden. From 1986 an ARmz half dining car was used.

IC 812/813 (1988 to 1991)

From 1988 the IC network was converted again. Like the other trains on Line 1, the Senator now ran under the number 812/813 between Hamburg and Stuttgart via Bremen, Dortmund, Cologne and Mannheim . He drove on the newly opened Mannheim – Stuttgart high-speed line .

ICE 794/795 (1991 to 1995)

In 1991 the train name Senator was transferred to one of the first trains in the new Intercity Express system. The train on the new ICE line 6 now ran between Hamburg and Stuttgart via Hanover, Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe , Frankfurt (Main) and Mannheim and was run with an ICE 1 set.

ICE 896/897 (1995 to 1996)

With the 1995 summer timetable, the train number changed to 896 (Stuttgart - Hamburg) and 897 (Bremen - Stuttgart).

ICE 899 (1996 to 1999)

In the 1996/1997 winter timetable, the train name Senator was only used in one direction for a train from Bremen to Göttingen . From the 1997 summer timetable, it ran from Bremen via Hanover, Göttingen and Fulda to Frankfurt (Main). The train name Senator was used for the last time in the 1998/1999 winter timetable .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Goette, p. 99.
  2. ↑ Goette, p. 100.
  3. ^ F Senator on the World of Model Railways page
  4. ↑ IC Senator on the World of Model Railways page
  5. ↑ Long-distance traffic database: ICE 899