Locking car
Blocking wagons were a special form of Privileged Railway Through Traffic (PED) that enabled passengers to travel from one part of a country to another part of the country without having to pass customs or passport controls and without changing.
Germany
Blocking wagons existed in the German Reich in the interwar period in traffic through the Polish Corridor between East Prussia and the rest of the Reich from the beginning of the 1920s to 1936. While complete trains ran in the PED via the main connection via the Prussian Eastern Railway , as well as via the connections via Groß Boschpol and Danzig and Neu Bentschen only operated through cars from Wroclaw that were treated as blocked cars, which were converted in Poznań . The wagons passing through Breslau – Königsberg were only allowed to be used by travelers who wanted to get on and off at German train stations. For travelers who wanted to get on board in Poland, there were separate cars, which were subject to the usual controls at the border.
Austria
Ausserfernbahn
Up until 1994, pairs of trains ran several times a day from the Tyrolean state capital Innsbruck with blocking wagons (2nd class) on the Mittenwaldbahn (Karwendelbahn) via Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Bavaria) to Reutte in Ausserfern, Tyrol . The ÖBB internal tariff was calculated for the foreign section of the route (Scharnitz border - Ehrwald border), while the foreign railway administration (DB) received a line usage fee as compensation for the service.
In the Austrian border stations of Scharnitz and Ehrwald- Zugspitzbahn in Ausserfern, the train staff locked the entry and transition doors of the blocking wagons to the rest of the train (transition wagons) in order to allow entry or exit as well as a transition to the wagons not carried as blocking wagons on the foreign ( Bavarian) state territory. After leaving the foreign territory, the doors were unlocked again.
At the two border stations of Scharnitz and Ehrwald-Zugspitzbahn, there was a massive wooden frame with a sloping desk on the house platform near the reception building, where the Austrian customs officer at the office carried out the control service (checks on people and luggage) at the station every time the train was train also made various entries in the large-format journal (frequency counting, etc.).
In the course of cross-border organizational changes for more efficient and economical operations in rail traffic between the two railway administrations ÖBB and DB, as well as the use of multiple units and push-pull trains, repositioning and, as a result, wagon throughput at Garmisch-Partenkirchen station was no longer necessary. Since then, travelers have had to change to the connecting train in the direction of Reutte or Innsbruck.
East Tyrol
Blocking wagons between North and East Tyrol were introduced after the end of the First World War due to the Treaty of Saint-Germain in 1919. In the corridor traffic between Innsbruck (North Tyrol) and Lienz (East Tyrol) via Franzensfeste, Italian security personnel (Carabinieri, military) boarded the train at the Brennero / Brenner border station or in San Candido / Innichen and accompanied and monitored it all the way to the next border station. There were three pairs of trains every day. With the discontinuation of customs and personal controls within the framework of the Schengen Agreement , this special form of operational management in rail traffic when traveling on foreign territory (corridor traffic) ended.
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Bock: D 1 Berlin - Königsberg. In transit through Gdansk and through the "Polish Corridor" . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2012. ISBN 978-3-88255-737-4