Usage group

The Deutsche Reichsbahn or the Deutsche Bundesbahn had designated a group of passenger cars for express trains or express trains , which are based on certain common building principles, with the usage group . Usage groups with an odd number designate express train wagons , while with an even number express train wagons . The numbers indicate the approximate year in which the respective wagon types were first put into service.

German Reichsbahn

The usage groups were developed by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in order to be able to rationally manage and use their very heterogeneous passenger car park consisting of vehicles of the Länderbahn types and the standard series developed by the Deutsche Reichsbahn.

The usage group should not be confused with the type used by the DRG. For example, type 28 wagons belong to application group 29, which also includes types 28, 29, 30 and 33 riveted wagons. The usage group 29 also includes welded wagons of types 31-34.

German Federal Railroad

The Deutsche Bundesbahn also divided its own new buildings into usage groups. The use groups were gradually abolished and no longer used from around 1966 onwards, due to the decommissioning of old wagons of the regional and standard designs and the increasingly homogeneous fleet of wagons of the Federal Railroad.

Express train wagons

A distinction is made between the following groups of uses for express train wagons:

Group 05 - Länderbahn express train passenger cars in wood construction
Group 15 - Länderbahn express train passenger cars in steel construction
Group 23 - Standard wagons 1923–1927 (" Hechtwagen ")
Group 29 - Uniform Design Cars 1928–1934
Group 35 - Standard Design Cars 1935–1938
Group 39 - cars of the standard types 1938–1942 (" skirted cars ") and prototypes from the year of construction 1952
Group 53 - cars of the 26.4 m design from 1952 with revolving doors ( "UIC-X car" of the DB )
Group 61 - cars of the 26.4 m design from 1960 in a reinforced design with folding doors
Group 63 - 26.4 m wagons from 1962 with air conditioning ( "Rheingold wagon" )

Express train carriage

A distinction is made between the following groups of uses for express train wagons :

Group 30 - Standard Design Cars 1929–1934
Group 36 - Standard Design Cars 1935–1939
Group 44 - Standard wagons 1940, 1943–1944 (" Schürzeneilzugwagen ")
Group 52 - cars of the newly developed 26.4 m design from 1952 (including "center entry car" ), as well as double-deck car prototypes

Deutsche Reichsbahn in the GDR

The Deutsche Reichsbahn in the GDR introduced its own designation scheme:

The skirted wagons were classified as usage group D1,
the 35 series as D2,
Group 29 cars as D3 and
the 23 and 26 series cars are classified as D4 and D5, respectively.

literature

Car for Europe. The history of the 26.4 m wagon . In: EK Special . tape 74 . EK Verlag, Freiburg.
Michael Meinhold: Train formation (1) - DB passenger trains of epoch 3 . Miba-Verlag, Nuremberg 2006.