Car of the Bavarian Zugspitzbahn
The Bayerische Zugspitzbahn used several cars to transport passengers and goods .
Passenger cars
Passenger cars 1 to 19
When the company opened in 1930, 18 four-axle passenger cars were delivered by the Augsburg-Nuremberg machine factory. They carried the company numbers 1 to 19, the number 13 , which was considered an unlucky number, was not assigned.
The open- plan cars, which were 11.7 meters long and weighed 8.7 tons , had 16 seats in the second class and 32 in the third class. At each end, the cars have a closed entry platform with four or two additional folding seats. A further 27 standing places were permitted on the valley section. The platform on the mountain side is equipped with a bell system with which the train attendant and the engine driver can communicate. Two headlights are as at the front of the car front headlights mounted for the ascent and with red Vorsteckscheiben as a backlight in downhill. The carriages have an electric heater that is supplied with mains voltage by the locomotive. All wheel sets are equipped with block brakes. In addition, the bogie on the valley side is equipped with a brake gear. Both brake systems are dependent on each other and are always operated simultaneously by the hand spindle or by the vacuum brake .
In 1957, the division into second and third class was abolished and the space was limited to a total of 65 people. From 1958, the passenger cars 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17 and 18 were converted into presentation cars for the multiple units 1 to 4. They were given sloping entrance doors and a train attendant's compartment on the mountain side with a large window and sun protection. A control car operation was still not possible. It was not until 1980 that cars 6 and 17 were converted into control cars for railcars 5 and 6. The coaches were given a driver's desk in the driver's compartment , remote-controlled doors and have since been numbered 21 (formerly 6) and 22 (formerly 17). Today, trains that are formed from the old passenger cars or presentation cars can be controlled from the head of the train with the help of the radio remote control of the mountain locomotive 19 , without having to make any serious modifications to the cars.
Today there are still cars 1 and 2 that have not been converted, cars 4, 11 and 18 that have been converted into presentation cars, and control cars 21, 22.
Control cars 211 and 213
Together with the railcar 309 , the two control cars 211 and 213 were acquired from the Bern – Solothurn regional traffic . They were converted by Stadler to match the railcar 309, but retained their old company numbers, the + Gf + coupling and the pure air brake equipment . The two cars, which are suitable for adhesion and cogwheel operation, are each 19.09 meters long, weigh 20.5 tons when empty and each have 72 seats.
Together with the 309 railcar, the cars are mainly used on the valley route between Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Grainau. The railcars are allowed to run on the cogwheel route to Eibsee, but not further in the direction of Zugspitze.
Goods and work cars
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For the opening of the railway, two four-axle rail transport wagons (wagons 1 and 2), a two-axle boxcar (wagon 3) and two two-axle flat wagons (wagons 4 and 5) were delivered by the Augsburg-Nuremberg machine works . In the construction phase, the rail transport vehicles were used to transport track material . Food and luggage were transported to the Zugspitze in the closed freight car 3. All types of transport are carried out with the two flat cars 4 and 5. The two four-axle wagons are only equipped with a hand spindle brake, the three two-axle wagons also have a vacuum brake, which means that the wagons can be carried on regular passenger trains.
The five originally purchased freight cars or work cars are still in use today. The rail transport car 1 was converted into a tower and rescue car and a cooling chamber was retrofitted in the covered freight car 3.
Over the years the following cars have been added:
- Car 6 is a four-axle flat car with a permanently installed heating oil tank that was built on the chassis of passenger car No. 16
- Car 7 is a single-axle snow thrower that is directly coupled to a mountain locomotive. The centrifugal unit with two-wheel hollow centrifugal unit and pre-cutting propellers was driven by a diesel engine and was the first centrifugal centrifuge for the railway sector from the Beilhack company with the serial number 20/1952
- Car 9 is a four-axle ballast wagon that was exchanged for passenger car no. 7 at the Brohl Valley Railway
- Car 10 is a four-axle flat car purchased from Windhoff in 1991 , which can be used to transport loads of up to 18 tons (track material, snow groomers, etc.)
- Car 11 is the new snow cutter blower delivered in 1999 by the company Zaugg AG Eggiwil
- Car 12 is a refrigerated car that was rebuilt in 2009 on the basis of an old passenger car and was equipped with a refrigerated body from the Kiesling company to be able to transport food to the Zugspitze
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Bavarian Zugspitzbahn . In: AEG (Ed.): Messages . Issue 4, April 1931, ISSN 0374-2423 , Wagen, p. 261-265 .
- ↑ a b Vehicle list of the Bavarian Zugspitzbahn. (PDF) (No longer available online.) March 2, 2012, archived from the original on March 2, 2012 ; accessed on December 12, 2017 .
- ^ A b c Gerd Wolf: German small and private railways . tape 7 . EK-Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-88255-666-8 , Bayerische Zugspitzbahn AG (BZB), p. 185-208 .
- ↑ Model railroad . In: railway magazine . Issue 11. Alba publication, Düsseldorf November 2013, p. 66 .
- ^ Snow cutter blower from Zaugg AG. In: zaugg-ag.ch. Zaugg AG, accessed on December 12, 2017 .
- ↑ on the way to the top. Retrieved December 18, 2017 .