Wine barrel cart
Wine barrel wagons are freight wagons on which wooden wine barrels are installed.
Wine barrel wagons with two barrels were used to transport red wine; Wagons with a single, larger barrel were intended for the transport of white wine.
This special design of tank wagons was discontinued on the railroad by private wine traders and railway companies from France , Switzerland, Austria and Germany. In 1895 the Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM) took over the first wine barrel wagon in their park after several attempts; By 1910, there were already more than 20,000 of these cars in France. The First World War was the reason for the first major wine transports there on a national level. In November 1914, block trains loaded with wine left Bercy station in Paris, some at 10-minute intervals . In 1917 the French army requested over 12 million hectoliters of wine and asked for more than 8000 wagons to transport it.
Most of these cars were in service from 1914 to 1922. Due to regular thefts and high repair costs, they were later made in a closed construction, sometimes with roof domes. From the 1960s they were replaced by tank cars . The French state railway SNCF counted 11,798 wine barrel wagons in 1945, of which 8,850 were wooden barrels with a capacity of 100 to 150 hectoliters and 2,948 were metal barrels with a capacity of 230 hectoliters.
Models of these cars were and are produced by many model railroad manufacturers.
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- ↑ Martin Kreckler, Wolfgang Kreckler: Railway in Ehrang , EK-Verlag Freiburg 2008, p 88-89
- ^ A b Clive Lamming: Paris au temps des gares . Parigrams, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-84096-711-8 , pp. 105 .