TWE VT 51
| TWE VT 51 | |
|---|---|
| Numbering: | TWE VT 51 |
| Manufacturer: | WUMAG Görlitz |
| Year of construction (s): | 1938 |
| Retirement: | 1967 after an accident |
| Axis formula : | (1A) (A1) |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Length: | 20,880 mm |
| Width: | 2,925 mm |
| Top speed: | 80 km / h |
| Installed capacity: | 2 × 162 kW (2 × 220 PS) |
| Wheel diameter: | 900 mm |
| Motor type: | Twelve-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine |
| Power transmission: | mechanical with Mylius gear |
| Train brake: | Indirect brake as a block brake |
| Seats: | 2nd class: 4 3rd class: 79 |
| Classes : | 2nd / 3rd |
The TWE VT 51 of the Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn (TWE) was manufactured in 1938 by Waggon- und Maschinenbau Görlitz (WUMAG) in Görlitz . It came to TWE as a bargain purchase in 1948 and was employed by the company until 1967. It was retired in the same year after an accident and scrapped in 1973.
history
The railcar was built in 1938 for the Mittelthurgau Railway in Switzerland . As a result of the Second World War , it was no longer accepted by customers, but instead transferred to the Oderbruchbahn in 1939 , where it is said to have been on duty until shortly before the end of the war. However, the railcar is not included in a vehicle list for the Oderbruchbahn.
In the last days of the war, the operations manager there is said to have arranged for the car to be transferred to the Neheim-Hüsten-Sundern railway line . In an unexplained way he found himself plundered in Hamburg after the end of the war . The Deutsche Eisenbahn-Betriebsgesellschaft ordered the car to be rebuilt. Its first use was as a VT 51 on the Neheim – Sundern railway line. A few years later it was purchased by TWE .
At TWE, the railcar was the master railcar on the Gütersloh – Hövelhof line . He shared the services with the smaller VT 31 . It was used as a solo vehicle in passenger transport, and it was also used for freight train service.
The railcar was one of the most powerful railcars of the TWE , which was occasionally used with a four-axle control car and three two-axle trailer cars.
In 1967 the railcar had to be retired after an accident, and it was scrapped in 1973.
Constructive features
The railcar with the serial number WUMAG 10.270 belonging to the WUMAG type 4 had many similarities with the HzL VT3 from the same manufacturer and was motorized with 2 × 220 HP and each was equipped with a Mylius gearbox .
The inner axles of the bogies were driven. The window division on the side walls corresponds to the HzL vehicle. At one end of the vehicle, the railcar had a luggage compartment that housed the driver's cab. This was followed by the entry room, which was followed by two third-class compartments of roughly the same size , divided as a smoker / non-smoker compartment . The second entry area was followed by a compartment with four 2nd class seats and the rear driver's cab. Both driver's cabs were separated from the entry areas.
The primary suspension and the secondary suspension were realized with leaf springs . The exterior was painted according to the Reichsbahn scheme: aluminum-colored roofs, black frames, the car body below the window parapet signal red, above the window parapet ivory-colored. The railcar ran in this color scheme until the end of its mission.
literature
- Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways . Volume 6: North Rhine-Westphalia / northeastern part edition. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-88255-664-1 .
- Josef Högemann: The Teutoburg Forest Railway . Uhle and Kleimann, Lübbecke 1986, ISBN 3-922657-53-2 .
- Baurat Semke: Railcar operation on regular- gauge , non-Reich-owned railways , in Verkehrstechnik , issue 23, December 4, 1936.
See also
Web links
- Reproduction of an article in the magazine Die Museums-Eisenbahn with mention and photo of the TWE VT51
- Photo of the TWE VT 51 in the Joachim Schmidt Railway Foundation
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Josef Högemann: The Teutoburg Forest Railway . Uhle and Kleimann, Lübbecke 1986, ISBN 3-922657-53-2 , p. 169 .
- ↑ Vehicle list of the Oderbruchbahn
- ^ Josef Högemann: The Teutoburg Forest Railway . Uhle and Kleimann, Lübbecke 1986, ISBN 3-922657-53-2 , p. 282 .
- ^ Josef Högemann: The Teutoburg Forest Railway . Uhle and Kleimann, Lübbecke 1986, ISBN 3-922657-53-2 , p. 172 .
- ^ Josef Högemann: The Teutoburg Forest Railway . Uhle and Kleimann, Lübbecke 1986, ISBN 3-922657-53-2 , p. 186 .
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Theurich: From old archives in Eisenbahn-Magazin 4/95, page 22
- ↑ Baurat Semke, in traffic engineering , Issue 23, 1936