VÖV low-floor prototype
| VÖV low-floor prototype low-floor light rail vehicle 2000 |
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| Number: | 3 |
| Manufacturer: | DUEWAG , WU , LHB , MBB , Siemens |
| Year of construction (s): | 1991 |
| Retirement: | from 1992 |
| Genre : | 3xNfTwER, 4xNfTwER |
| Gauge : | 1000/1435 mm |
| Particularities: | Single wheel single trolleys (EEF) |
As VÖV low-floor prototype or low-floor light rail vehicles in 2000 , a series of was tram - prototypes designated in 1991, each with a copy to the transport company in Bonn , Dusseldorf and Mannheim were delivered.
From the late 1980s years was - mainly due to the order without extensive high-level platforms actionable in urban railways accessibility increasingly on the use of - Niederflurtechnik discussed at tram vehicles. At the instigation of the then Association of Public Transport Companies (VÖV), three prototypes were finally developed and built by a consortium of the companies DUEWAG , Waggon Union , Linke-Hofmann-Busch , MBB and Siemens . Other suppliers were also involved. The vehicle design came from Alexander Neumeister .
The vehicles should be used to test the low-floor technology and in particular the new, single-wheel, single-wheel chassis (EEF) based on the system developed by Professor Fritz Frederich from Aachen . Accordingly, the three vehicles were created in different configurations:
- Mannheim: 1000 mm gauge ( meter gauge ), one-way vehicle , three-part, four EEF
- Düsseldorf: 1435 mm gauge ( standard gauge ), one-way vehicle, two-part, three EEF
- Bonn: 1435 mm gauge, two-part, three EEF
The prototypes proved to be very prone to errors and malfunctions, in particular the driven EEF caused major problems and led to the vehicles being shut down after a short time. In all three companies, the vehicles were therefore never used in regular scheduled services. The two prototypes from Bonn and Mannheim were later scrapped. Only the Düsseldorf prototype with car number 3601 is still preserved today. It is in Museum Line D in Düsseldorf. The car is not operational.
literature
- Lutz Uebel and Wolfgang-D. Richter: 150 years of rail vehicles from Nuremberg . EK-Verlag Freiburg 1994, ISBN 3-88255-562-9 . Page 468f.
Web links
- Railcar 3601 - VÖV prototype . Description with photo on the homepage of Line D , accessed on May 2, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefan Vockrodt: The revolution in the passenger compartment. 20 years of low-floor vehicles in Germany . In: Tram magazine . No. 12/09 , 2009, p. 14 .