Talbot type Frankfurt
| Talbot type "Frankfurt" | |
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 historical recording
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| Numbering: |
TWE VT 70 NHS VT 71 |
| Number: | 2 |
| Manufacturer: | Talbot wagon factory in Aachen |
| Year of construction (s): | 1952 |
| Retirement: | until 1980 |
| Type : | (1A) '(A1)' |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Top speed: | 75 km / h |
| Installed capacity: | 2 × 107 kW (2 × 145 PS) |
| Motor type: | 2 × KHD A8L614 |
| Motor type: | Eight cylinder four-stroke diesel engine |
| Rated speed: | 2000 rpm |
| Power transmission: | mechanical with 2 Mylius gears |
| Particularities: | air-cooled engine |
The four-axle diesel railcars of the Talbot type Frankfurt were railcars of the Deutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft . They were made in connection with the vehicles of the Talbot type Aachen .
There are two known vehicles built that were used on the Teutoburg Forest Railway and the Neheim-Hüsten-Sundern Kleinbahn . The vehicles were retired and scrapped in the late 1970s.
History, use and design features
The Frankfurt- type railcars were the only large-capacity railcars from the Talbot wagon factory in Aachen . Since they were delivered to the Deutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, they were given the nickname Frankfurt, analogous to the vehicle designation used by the Wismar wagon factory before the Second World War .
They were procured because there was a great shortage of vehicles on the routes of the Teutoburg Forest Railway after the war and passenger traffic could be handled much more effectively with them. With the VT 31 and VT 51 , which were purchased before the war , as well as a motor coach of the Mosel type , passenger traffic with some Esslingen motor coaches could now be handled almost entirely by diesel multiple units. Steam locomotive replacement services only had to be carried out when the railcar failed.
In 1957 the VT 70 collided with a tank and then had to be repaired at Talbot. The VT 71 was used by Kleinbahn Neheim-Hüsten-Sundern from the start . The VT 70 was also rented there from 1964 to 1969. When rail passenger transport there was switched to buses, the two Frankfurt railcars were parked. The VT 70 was retired in 1976, the retirement dates of the VT 71 are not known.
Only two copies of this type were produced. They were equipped with two air-cooled A8L614 motors from KHD , each driving a Mylius gearbox.
literature
- Rolf Löttgers: Private railways in Germany: The German Railroad Company 1960-1969 , Franckhsche Verlagsbuchhandlung Stuttgart, 1983, ISBN 3-440-05162-5
- Rolf Löttgers: Die Kleinbahnzeit in Farbe , Franckhsche Verlagsbuchhandlung Stuttgart, 1983, ISBN 3-440-05235-4
- Josef Högemann: The Teutoburg Forest Railway , Uhle and Kleimann publishing house, Lübbecke 1986, ISBN 3-922657-53-2
See also
Web links
- Talbot railcar type Frankfurt as TWE VT 70 on the Joachim Schmidt Railway Foundation
- Brief portrait of the VT 70 of the TWE
Individual evidence
- ↑ Data sheet about the VT70
- ^ Josef Högemann: Die Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn , Verlag Uhle and Kleimann, Lübbecke 1986, ISBN 3-922657-53-2 , page 186