V56 and V58
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 V56 museum car in Bucharest
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| Number: | 467 |
| Manufacturer: | Întreprinderea de Transport Bucureşti |
| Year of construction (s): | 1956-1966 |
| Gauge : | 1,000 mm or 1,435 mm |
| Length: | 9,800 mm |
| Width: | 2,300 mm |
| Empty mass: | 13,000 kg |
| Traction power: | 2 × 38 kW |
| Power system : | Direct current |
| Power transmission: | Overhead line |
| Number of traction motors: | two |
| Brake: | pneumatic |
| Operating mode: | One-way vehicle |
| Seats: | 12 or 13 |
| Standing room: | 91 (with five people per square meter) |
| Floor height: | 1,040 mm above the top edge of the rail |
The V56 and V58 , sometimes also V-56 and V-58 or Vo56 and Vo58 , are a series of 467 Romanian tram railcars with a steel structure. The setup two-axle model of the two series created in 1956 to 1966 in the main workshop of Tram Bucharest , as a manufacturer thus renamed the former Bucharest Transport Company Întreprinderea de Transport Bucureşti , shortly ITB as V56 are doing the elderly on chassis rail car with wooden body resulting Umbauwagen referred while the largely identical V58 are new builds. Both type designations are derived from the first year of construction.
Over the years, the two series developed into a standard type and were found in all eight Romanian tram companies that were opened before 1987. Apart from the capital Bucharest itself, these were Arad , Brăila , Galați , Iași , Oradea , Sibiu and Timișoara . Bucharest received mostly reconstructed vehicles and only a few new build vehicles, while the provincial businesses only received new builds.
The V56 and V58 railcars usually had one or two two-axle trailer cars , including the V08mod, V10 and V12 series built in parallel, and older V08 wooden superstructures from the interwar period. In the 1970s and 1980s, these trains were replaced everywhere by modern V2A and V3A articulated cars and Timiș-2 - or Tatra-T4R - large capacity trains. Only in Iași were they still in use until the first half of the 1990s.
distribution
- Bucharest
- The Romanian capital received by far the largest number of railcars with 226 standard-gauge V56 (140 units) and V58 (86 units) in the number range 1 to 497; they were in operation there until 1986. The V56 emerged from the vehicles built by the Belgian manufacturer Dyle et Bacalan from 1927 , and their electrical equipment came from the Compagnie Française Thomson-Houston . In addition to new car bodies , they also received a pantograph instead of the previous Lyra bracket . Car 119 was restored in 2008 and has served as a museum car ever since.
- Arad
- 32 meter-gauge railcars in the number range 1 to 70.
- Brăila
- 30 standard-gauge railcars with the numbers 1 to 30.
- Galați
- 52 meter-gauge railcars with the numbers 1–3, 5–18, 20–24 and 26–55. The two-axle vehicles were not to be found in the standard gauge network that was opened in 1971.
- Iași
- between 1959 and 1964 56 meter-gauge railcars with the numbers 50-105. From 1991, 16 cars received new bodies using components from retired Timiș 2 trains and were assigned the new numbers 100–115.
- Oradea
- 13 standard gauge V58 with the numbers 37–43, 55–57 and 61–63.
- Sibiu
- 17 meter-gauge railcars with the numbers 1–17.
- Timișoara
- 24 standard gauge railcars, which were delivered as follows:
- 1961: 177 to 180
- 1963: 181 to 187
- 1964: 188 to 194
- 1965: 195 to 197
- 1966: 198 to 200
literature
- Dorin Sarca, Gh. Radulovici: Centenarul tramvaielor din Timișoara, monograph 1869-1969 . Timișoara 1969.
- Hans Lehnhart, Claude Jeanmarie: Tram Companies in Eastern Europe II . Verlag Eisenbahn, Villingen 1977, ISBN 3-85649-032-9 .
- 1869 −1994, 125 de ani de circulație cu tramvaiul în Timișoara, monograph . Timișoara 1994.
- A. Günther, S. Tarkhov, C. Blank: Tram atlas Romania 2004 . Working group Blickpunkt Straßenbahn e. V., Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-926524-23-5 .
- Reprint from the trade journal Der Stadtverkehr - issues 11 / 12-1966 and 3/1967