DBAG Class 641

The vehicles of the Alstom Coradia A TER are one-piece diesel railcars. Its development began as a joint project of Deutsche Bahn AG and the French SNCF rail vehicle manufacturers De Dietrich Ferroviaire and Linke- Hofmann -Busch. They were manufactured by this division of labor, now part of Alstom Transport as Germany and Alstom DDF to the Alstom Group company. TER stands for Transport express régional.

Design features

The vehicles are equipped with Scharfenberg couplers. Up to three railcars are movable in multiple control. The six-cylinder common-rail diesel engines supplied by MAN, the hydraulic transmission from Voith. In addition to the hydrodynamic retarder feature the Railcars with disc brakes. The arrangement of the two drive systems before the bogies, the domed shape of the finished aluminum extrusions car body and the large one-piece hinged doors give the car its characteristic look, which has earned him in Germany nicknamed the whale, and in France the nickname Baleine Bleue ( Blue Whale ). The low-floor area between the bogies has a floor height of 550 mm. The body was fitted to the head ends with absorbers, designed to cover the impact energy in a collision up to 1500 kN. At the head ends the cabs made ​​of fiberglass are placed and bonded.

Use

Series 641 of Deutsche Bahn

It delivered 40 pieces of this series at the German Bahn AG, of which four vehicles have been scrapped after accidents. Some railcars are currently turned off due to lack of demand due to line closures and new awards.

You are in Baden- Württemberg on the High Rhine - used and in Thuringia from Erfurt, among other things, the Schwarzatal web between Rottenbach and Katzhütte on the Pfefferminzbahn between Sömmerda and Großheringen and on the Friedrichrodaer web between - between Basel Baden train station and Singen ( Hohentwiel ) friedrichroda and Fröttstädt. By December 2011, it reversed on the Ohratalbahn from Gotha to Gräfenroda and by June 2012 on the Ilmtalbahn between Weimar and crane field and on the Sormitztalbahn between Saalfeld and Blankenstein. From the small timetable change on June 9, 2013 six railcars from Erfurt to Hof (Saale) were umbeheimatet. So we need the trains between Bamberg and Bayreuth and Hof. The 641 share the inserts since December 2013 with the series 612

SNCF X 73500

Further vehicles of the Alstom Coradia A TER family were supplied by De Dietrich to the French SNCF. This allowed for a top speed of 140 km / h vehicles will be conducted at the SNCF X 73500. 312 railcars were delivered between 1999 and 2004 to SNCF. Drive among other things on the track Saargemines -Bitche.

SNCF X 73900

For cross- border traffic between Germany and France, 19 more vehicles were procured as X 73900, of which two (X 73914 and 73915 ) were from Saarland paid and painted traffic red. This series is also coupled with the series 641 of the DB. You also have the German train control PZB 90

CFL 2100

The Luxembourg CFL received six copies of De Dietrich, which were called from 2101 to 2106. In 2006 they were taken over by the SNCF X 73813-818.