GHE T 1

Since 2001: VEB MN truck W50 engine

The T 1 is a two-axle narrow gauge railcar wagon factory in Dessau for Gernrode - Harzgerode Railway Company (GHE ).

History

The GHE procured these railcars in order to make passenger on the Selketalbahn rational. Its main application field were the routes Alexisbad - Harzgerode and Alexisbad - stairs. Although proven the vehicle and fulfilled the tasks of the railcar at the GHE remained unique. However, the wagon factory in Dessau was able to sell more, very similar railcars. Although there were in the GHE efforts to appoint another railcar, then the money saved but was eventually invested in new buses.

During the Second World War, the purchase of diesel for the GHE was increasingly difficult, so that the railcar finally in 1943 preserved in the engine shed of the railway station Eisfelder Talmuhle was turned off. As the Soviet military authorities demanded the dismantling of the Selketalbahn as reparation, lacked for some time now been parked railcars in the inventory. You may also see this fact, it is thanks to them that he was not transported in contrast to the other rolling stock.

After the takeover by the German Reichsbahn he was referred to as VT 133 522 and took over the traffic on the remaining remnant of Selketalbahn between ice fields Talmuhle and Hasselfelde. Later he came back to his regular route between Gernrode by Strassberg ( resin ) is used. With its 34 seated and 10 standing passengers, however, he was just too small and it serves no seats only as equipment cart. In 1972 he was awarded by the Deutsche Reichsbahn also still valid today, vehicle number 187 001

Even in the last years of the GDR came the T 1 on the list of long-term preserved railway vehicles. In 1988 was begun the railcar of rehabilitating in order to use it for special trips can. In 2001 he received a new engine, as used in the truck W50. The Harz narrow gauge railways put back the railcar 2007 by the fix. Only in 2010, after a two-year stay in the Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works, the T 1 returned with another paint again in the use of the park back. In Bahnbetriebswerk Wernigerode Westerntor then a safety driving circuit has been built - since it can be operated without Beimann.

It is used by the HSB exclusively in special service.