Mediolanum (train)

1957-1969 FS- railcar ALn were 442/448 used

Austria Austria / Germany Germany / Switzerland Switzerland

Basel SBB

Gotthard

VT 11.5 FS TEE Gran Conforto FS E.656 DB ÖBB 1044 111

TEE Mediolanum 1957

Mediolanum is the name of Trans Europ Express train (TEE ) which traveled from 1957 to 1984 between Munich and Milan, and was supposed to replace the aircraft in the first years of its existence because of low air movement between the two cities. He was from the beginning to the European TEE network and always drove on the same route. " Mediolanum " is the Latin name for the city of Milan.

History

The first TEE Mediolanum launched on October 15, 1957 by Milan via Verona, Trento, Bolzano / Bozen, Brenner / Brenner, Innsbruck and Kufstein to Munich, first under the train number TEE 395/396. In Austria, the Railways ÖBB had not yet joined then the TEA agreement, the TEE was performed as train type TS ( railcar express train ) and considered as transit. At the beginning of the train required for the journey between two endpoints seven hours and 20 minutes in the opposite direction even 14 minutes longer. Alone on the intermediate stops for 31 minutes at the common borders on the burner took a quarter of an hour. For the distance to be traveled in Austria (including two minutes stay in Innsbruck ) were scheduled for an hour and 27 minutes. In Milan the morning between six and seven clock was started in Munich always by 16 clock.

From 1958 to 1968 Rovereto was also served. The train number changed 393 / 395th Another change to the train number 1960 was held until 1964, when the Mediolanum between Milan and Verona wrong together with a tensile member to and from Venice. In Italy, the train number was now in accordance with local practices MV and VM in the opposite direction. When, after 1967, the train runs were again separated, reversed the Mediolanum as TEA 17/18. From 1971, the train number in TEE was converted 84/85 summer schedule beginning. Under this the TEE drove up to his end in May 1984.

Train and car use

At the beginning of newly developed diesel double motor coach of the Italian State Railways FS were the Aln Series 442/448 used in the route of the Mediolanum, 1960 between Milan and Verona coupled to 1964 with the EMUs ALe 601 to Venice. The criticism of the Italian furniture increased over time, as they had neither air conditioning nor a dining compartment, only seat service offered, the mechanical diesel drive was relatively noisy and the seating capacity was not always sufficient. A request from the German Federal Railroad ( DB), the German domestic F- train Blauer Enzian (Hamburg - Munich) to associate with the Mediolanum to a train running rejected the International Conference schedule in the 1960s.

It was not until 1969 vacant TEA railcar of the German class 601 arrived at the train route used. Scheduled was because of the difficult Brennerstrecke such a set of only three compartment, a dining and a seating car between the two power heads. If needed, could a sixth car to be set. When traveling downhill, there were problems with hot brake discs. However, the travel times could be shortened in both directions for nearly an hour. This mission lasted only three years.

On August 20, 1972, the train was switched to newly built 26.4 -meter-long TEA Car FS (FS TEE Gran Conforto ). The series consisted of compartment cars Az, Großraumwagen Apz, a dining car WRz, which was managed by the International Sleeping Car Company ( ISG), as well as a combined Generator-/Gepäckwagen Dz to power the train. On the route Munich - burner usually has a 110.3, " crease ", used. In 1974 a new locomotive of the series 111 was stretched in front of the train. From 1982 to the end of 1984 took Austrian electric locomotives class 1044 the clothing, on the Italian side electric locomotives of the series E.444, E.656 later. These TEE cars of the FS were rebuilt after the end of TEA transport and operating domestically.

Diversions

For diversions of Mediolanum could about the Mittenwaldbahn Innsbruck - Garmisch -Partenkirchen - Munich or closures on the burner via the Gotthard Railway and Zurich - run Lindau.

Successor

With the start of the summer schedule 1984 of Mediolanum by the lengthened from Munich to Milan Intercity Nymphenburg was replaced, which changed its name to Mediolanum. The train was replaced by a Euro City, which today da Vinci between Munich and Milan wrong as EC 88/89 Leonardo. There are also three other EC trains, two pairs of trains between Munich and Verona as Garda ( EC 80 /81) and Paganini ( EC 82/83 ), the EC 86/87 Tiepolo Munich -Venice and the EC 84/85 with the ancient Mediolanum train number, Michelangelo, Munich-Rome.

Accident

A major accident records the history of the TEE Mediolanum on March 28, 1964, when the train in Kufstein frontally collided with an electric locomotive ÖBB series 1010.1.

Gotthard Bahn Mediolanum

The train name was given in the early 2000s, a renaissance, but on the Gotthard Railway as an intercity train route Basel SBB - Lucerne - Milano Centrale. While only the "normal " IC - holding as Arth -Goldau, Bellinzona, Lugano, Chiasso or Como SG were served on the way to Milan, the train stopped at the evening drive back to Switzerland in railway stations such as Faido, Airolo, Göschenen, Erstfeld, Schwyz or Red Cross. 2004 stop in Schwyz was abandoned, instead of the train then stopped in Flüelen. 2005 gave the SBB and Trenitalia the operation of the IC at the Mediolanum Cisalpino, from now on, figured the train as EC Cisalpino Mediolanum. 2008, the train by a nameless Cisalpino was replaced and to Zurich HB, the train stops between Bellinzona and Arth- Goldau, and the line Arth -Goldau - Basel SBB were replaced by a parallel trains running Interregio. After the dissolution of Cisalpino this train runs though again as Euro City, but nameless.