Passauer Eisenbahnfreunde

The Passau railway friends are a established in 1978 in Passau registered association, which has made it its mission to preserve and use historic railway vehicles operational. The club had about 190 members in 2007.

Over the years the club ran a rain special trains on branch lines in the area around Passau. Due to the flood of the century in 2002, the two routes Ilztalbahn ( Passau Freyung ) and the Passau - Hauzenberg was severely damaged and consequently locked, whereby the activity of the club was clearly limited. Since 16 July 2011, the Ilztalbahn is back in service.

Also, some routes such as Hengersberg - Kalteneck and Vilshofen - Aidenbachstraße have now been removed, so that only still standing forest path at the junction to Hengersberg, the route Vilshofen - Blindham and Rottalbahn for special trips within Passau available. Since these branch lines are no longer passable for the club due to its closure, the club now operates his special trains on other routes. Often this takes place a cooperation agreement with the Austrian Society for Railway History ( ÖGEG ), which provides the necessary rolling stock available, if not the own Uerdinger Schienenbus (VT 798 ) will be used.

The reason the Passau railway enthusiasts is located on the site of the former railway depot Passau in the Haitzingerstraße 12 and has an area of about five acres. The reason is composed of three parts:

The outdoor area consists primarily of the track area, the maneuvering serves. The controlling of track switches and signals at these is like the guideway assurance of adjacent interlocking Passau taken exactly.

Hall I is located directly at the entrance to the site, here are the Schienenbusgarnitur and various other vehicles are parked. In addition, the hall I houses the main workshop with storage, the turning shop for production of spare parts, features a sizeable stock of spare parts and an office with an attached club archive management. The social areas such as kitchen, meeting room, showers, toilets and a place to stay located in Hall I.

The hall was originally built by the German Federal Railways for maintenance of their Schienenbusgarnituren and is therefore equipped with a pit, a compressed air system and appropriate ventilation devices. Thus this hall is still today the construction purpose.

Hall II is located at the other end of the site and forms with two tracks with a length of around 100 meters, the possibility to park coaches. The hall serves as a shelter for the vereinseigenden vehicles or for vehicles of ÖGEG. Also connected to this hall is a warehouse of spare parts for vehicles vereinseigenden.

Because diesel and electric locomotives do not like steam locomotives had to be turned over, the old hub was removed. It was replaced by the "Orange passenger hall ", as it was in this now possible to carry out the revision of US-based Passau coaches. The hall is connected to the compressed air system at Halle. In this hall is the club's lifting device with a lifting capacity of 64 t for Ausachsen of vehicles.

• 3.1 F- train
• 3.2 Zigzag sleeper
• 3.3 saloon car
• 3.4 Residential and workshop trolleys
• 3.5 Air - snow plow
• 3.6 Low side car

Rolling stock

All vehicles of railway enthusiasts are held by the club's own engineers in their free time in state and repaired. The examinations and assessments are each performed by an independent expert to ensure operational safety.

Locomotives

Steam locomotive 64 344

Since November 2009, the steam locomotive 64 344 is at the PEF. The locomotive has a top speed of 90 Km / h and a power output of 950 hp. She was laid down from 1968 to 1988 in Forest churches at the Ilztalbahn as a memorial. In 1988, she brought to Plattling and e from the Historical Railway Association Platt Ling V. (HEV ) serves as plinthed. It is planned operative work up the locomotive in Passau in 2013.

Schienenbus

The club has two railcars of Class 798, an associated intermediate cars VB 98 and a control car VS 98 are operational all vehicles this set and may thus operate on the networks of the DB AG, ČD, ÖBB and other companies.

V 40

In order to perform shunting duties, a locomotive type Krauss-Maffei ML 400 C was purchased. This locomotive is equipped with a remote control and an automatic shunting to rank with fewer staff can. The V 40 has a top speed of 45 km / h and a power output of 400 hp.

V60

To be able to maneuver higher tensile loads, greater and greater Lok they decided to purchase. The locomotive was purchased in December of the PEF and then transferred from Kornwestheim, via Regensburg to Passau. The V60 has a top speed of 60 km / h and 700 hp.

Köf II

In July 2010, the PEF could purchase a shunting locomotive class 323 with number 323 552 from Hall in Regensburg. The locomotive is worked since the summer of 2010 and has been repainted to admire in the workshop. As of 2011, the locomotive is operational are available.

Köf III

In December 2006, a Köf III ( 332052-0 ) from the depot Regensburg was purchased to relieve the V 40. The locomotive was put into service in 1963 at the depot Passau and was stationed until its dissolution in 2000 there. The locomotive was acquired by the DB in a pitiable condition, the machine could not be used because critical lever and fittings have been removed from the driver's cab or destroyed. However, to put the vehicle within a few weeks into a mobile state succeeded. The machine received in spring 2007 a ​​major investigation and is now in running condition.

Grouse

The Stangenrangierlok was made in 1954 for the steel mills Peine. With an output of 28 hp it is the weakest of the locomotive railway enthusiasts, but with a weight of just 10 tons and the lightest. The locomotive was restored in the 1990s as a youth project. Nicknamed the grouse she received by the driving noise, which sounds like a courting grouse.

Feldbahnlok

Since before the Hall of the railway friends are some meter field Railway Track, also a narrow gauge locomotive was purchased. In 2006, a passenger car was built on the chassis of an ancient Lore, with the now the 90 m long section is traversed.

Skl working car

For maintenance of the branch lines that the club had operated for several decades, a rotting cars of the type Klv 53 was procured. The trolley is equipped with an Atlas crane for lifting smaller loads. Appropriately, there is a trailer owned by the railway enthusiasts to transport loads. This team can drive a maximum speed of 70 km / h and has a track approval. Currently there is this trolley between Freyung and forest churches for maintenance work on the railway line Passau Freyung in use.

Rolling stock

F- train

Blue painted cars of the genera Aüe 310 ABüe 333, 366 and Büe ARmz 216 form an express train set in the 1950s. The F- train - cars are currently bestowed permanent loan to the Ulm railway enthusiasts. The dining car ARmz 216 was worked extensively and received a major investigation. Since then, he is back in action.

Zigzag sleeper

The last remaining sleepers type WLAsüge 20 is obtained from the Passau railway enthusiasts. This sleeping car type was in use from 1950 to 1980, twenty Einbettabteile located on either side of a zig-zag center aisle. The car was the original ruby red paint again, is technically but in the last state of use with sliding windows, Gummiwulstübergängen and Minden- Deutz bogies.

Parlor car

The lounge car is originally from ÖBB, where he belonged to the fitness center for psychological studies. Previously, he served Hermann Goering as a mobile office. Today is in the car, a large living room of 11 m length, the seating can be arranged transversely with either a panel in the longitudinal direction or with several tables. So the car can accommodate 20-30 people. Furthermore, the car offers three cabins with office furniture ( bed, desk and closet ) and a shared shower.

Residential and workshop trolleys

The three-axle vehicle was originally purchased to maintenance work on the branch lines to Passau and is, therefore, now converted into a railway company car. The car is well maintained and has an interior with kitchen, bedroom and an office and workshop space.

Air - snow plow

The air - snow plow is a converted steam locomotive tender from the year 1964. He is restored since the winter of 2005/2006 and serves the areas of the site in winter.

Low side car

The low side car also comes from the ÖBB and was purchased to transport building material on the branch lines to Passau. Today the car is primarily used for cultural purposes, in which he acts as a stage. For example, for the animal once gas annually actor of " Tscheutschlandkurrier ". The car is newly painted since the summer of 2006 and completely restored.

The model railway department

Some club members had in 1983 for the construction of a model railway decided in H0, which is dedicated to Passau and the surrounding areas. Here the tracks of the Passau border station with two operating plants ÖBB and DB, as well as some secondary routes from the years 1955, 1994, it was rebuilt in many years. For this purpose, the Passau Hauptbahnhof premises were made ​​available. The plant was partly disposed of mid-2011, partly incorporated, the premises in Passau Hauptbahnhof were abandoned.