Baggage cart

Baggage car or luggage trolleys are small trolley, which are available for travelers at railway stations, bus terminals and airports in depots for easy carriage of their baggage.

As a rule, luggage carts are equipped with special rollers that make moving belt and driving on stairs. The brake system of the trolley is referred to as trolley - principle or Totmannbremse. 2013 the cost of a baggage car in Switzerland, about 800 francs (about 650 euros ).

Precautions against theft

Often, the car must be decoupled by means of a coin from the other cars in the depot. This coin deposit system is to ensure that the car is returned to a depot after use again.

In order to curb the enormous theft rate of baggage car, an electronic security system was installed as part of a pilot project in 2006 at the Frankfurt Central Station. When leaving the station area with the baggage car this was immediately blocked. You could freely go in allowed zones (eg taxi stand ). Überfuhr you a red markings, the car was no longer push it further and must be activated by the station staff via remote control.

History

The transported in separate railroad car express that precedes sent by the travelers baggage and other items transported in the train were transported earlier by railway personnel between train and luggage or goods shed with luggage carts.

After the theft rate was not decreased despite immobilizer, the German railway decided in 2010, the baggage car at the train stations in Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Augsburg, Göttingen and Berlin, later to abolish it, because 99 percent of travelers no longer need this service. The Swiss Federal Railways decided in 2013 to abolish the baggage car, except in the airport stations Kloten and Geneva. They justified this by saying that most travelers today benützten rolling case, and that the management is complex.