Type F (Timișoara tram)
| Type F | |
|---|---|
| Number: | six railcars |
| Manufacturer: | Tramvaiele Comunale Timișoara (TCT) |
| Year of construction (s): | 1925-1927 |
| Retirement: | 1980-1985 |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm |
| Length over coupling: | 8900 mm |
| Length: | 8100 mm |
| Width: | 2070 mm |
| Fixed wheelbase: | 2880 mm |
| Seats: | 18th |
| Standing room: | 25th |
As Type F a six vehicles comprehensive small batch biaxial will railcars the tram Timisoara in Romania called. The standard-gauge bidirectional wagons were built in the years 1925 to 1927 by the local Tramvaiele Comunale Timișoara (TCT) transport company and were in use until the 1980s.
description
The type F cars were 8100 millimeters (car body) or 8900 millimeters (length over coupling) long, 2070 millimeters wide, their center distance was 2880 millimeters. They weighed 9,000 kilograms and offered space for 43 passengers, who had 18 seats on the two longitudinal bench seats and 25 standing places. The access platforms were designed to be open, and the new railcars looked similar to the type CII sidecars built from 1928 onwards . They originally had lyre pantographs, which were replaced by scissor pantographs as part of the modernization program from 1956 to 1960 .
history
Use as a single wagon
The six F-cars were manufactured as follows, their electrical equipment was used from Weitzer railcars converted to sidecars built in 1898/1899:
| 1925: | Car 101 and 102 |
| 1926: | Car 103 and 104 |
| 1927: | Cars 105 and 106 |
After the Weitzer railcars, the B-cars , the D-cars and the DII-cars , the F-cars were the fifth series of electric railcars in Timișoara. After delivery of the four-window F-car, the tram company modified the construction plans in the course of 1927 and designed the largely identical but somewhat longer and five-window type FII , which is why only six of the type F were built.
After the line 6 from 1936 as a ring line inverted, the tram company built the six cars of the type F in the course of pending main investigations as follows to the first device vehicles tram Timişoara to:
- 104: October 28, 1936
- 101: September 10, 1937
- 102: February 7, 1938
- 103: June 29, 1938
- 105: December 22, 1938
- 106: December 22, 1938
The open entrances were closed on one side, which increased the capacity somewhat, while on the other side they received two-part pneumatic folding doors that opened to the outside. However, these did not prove themselves in the long run and were replaced by one-piece, manually operated sliding doors in later years.
In 1964, the tram company converted the F-Wagen 105 into the T1-62 multiple unit number 79, that is, it received a new steel body in one-way design. In addition, the F-wagons, together with the two similar wagons of the Fa splitter series , were run as the new T.2 type.
Use as a double railcar
From the remaining five F-wagons and the last remaining FII single wagon 113, three more twin railcars with the numbers 101-102, 103-104 and 105-106 emerged in 1966 , with the mentioned wagon 113 receiving the number 105 with a second crew. The cars 102, 104 and 106 each lost their pantograph and from then on were also supplied by the other car via power cables . In addition, as part of the conversion to twin railcars, the F-wagons were also dismantled into bidirectional cars. However, they still only had doors on one side . In addition to the two F-trains as well as the mixed F-FII-train for use on the line 4 in which was Mehala yet one drive loose Mittelbeiwagen the types AII or C inserted:
| 101-2-102 |
| 103-6-104 |
| 105-1-106 |
In addition, the vehicles were given single seats with 1 + 1 seating instead of the previously built-in longitudinal bench seats. Here, the passengers sat in one car each in the direction of travel, while in the other part of the double multiple unit all seats were arranged against the direction of travel. The two cars 103 and 104 also received new one-piece windscreens and illuminated train destination displays.
As early as the spring of 1969, the tram company exchanged the intermediate car 6 for the pioneer car 144 demotorized for the occasion . From 1970 the three trains 101-102, 103-104 and 105-106 were finally only in use as two-car trains. In order to be able to use them on the double-track sections with platforms separated according to the direction of travel , all five remaining F-wagons were given back their two-sided entrances in the first half of the 1970s.
Trains 101-102 and 103-104 were retired in 1980 because line 7 ran again as a ring line in one-way operation from that year and the need for two-way trains continued to decrease. Only the mixed train 105-106 was still in use until 1985 on line 5 to the Ronaț before it was replaced there by a pioneer double multiple unit that took over the numbers 105-106. None of the original six F-cars remained.
literature
- 60 de ani de la înființarea tramvaiului în Timișoara, monograph 1869–1929 . Timișoara 1929.
- Vasile Deheleanu, Sabin Indrieşu: Monografia întreprinderilor electromecanice municipale Timişoara . Timișoara 1944.
- Dorin Sarca, Gh. Radulovici: Centenarul tramvaielor din Timișoara, monograph 1869–1969 . Timișoara 1969.
- 1869–1994, 125 de ani de circulație cu tramvaiul în Timișoara, monograph . Timișoara 1994.
- Regia Autonomă de Transport Timișoara, 130 de ani de activitate, 1869–1999, monograph . Timișoara 1999.
