Rheinpfeil (train)
112 series ( E10.12 ) in the TEE paint, Hamburg 1983
- Fernzug (1952-1953)
- Fernzug (1958-1965)
- Trans Europe Express (1965-1971)
- Euro City (1987-1991)
Dortmund Hbf / Hannover Hbf / Hamburg -Altona
Basel SBB / Zurich HB / Chur
- Lok: DB 110 (1965-1965)
- Wgn: Rheingold 63 (1965-1973)
- Lok: DB 112 (1965-1971)
TEA Rheinpfeil in the summer of 1965 (red)
The Rheinpfeil was a German long-distance train on the route between Dortmund and Munich. Operators was the German Federal Railroad.
History
The train name Rheinpfeil appeared for the first time in 1952. Venlo - - Cologne - Mainz - Mannheim - Basel and F 21/22 Dortmund - Cologne - At that time the distance express trains F 9/10 Hoek van Holland were Mainz - Frankfurt - Würzburg - Munich ( - Innsbruck ), which drove coupled between Cologne and Mainz, Rhein- called arrow.
1953 these two trains were renamed Rheingold. This lost in 1956 with the conversion of the three-class system to the current two-tier system in Europe as the last old first class and drove now with one of today's first class.
Munich again the old name Rheinpfeil, this time written in one word - In 1958, the F train 21/22 Dortmund received. Four years later, modern cars were built for him and the Rheingold train. In addition to large space and compartment cars, new partial two-story dining car and five observation cars were built. At the same time the Series E 10:12 modern, 160 -km / h electric locomotives manufactured specially for this train. Rheingold and Rheinpfeil were the first trains of the German railway, which could extend this speed. In Duisburg Hauptbahnhof both trains exchanged among themselves coaches.
Another new feature learned the Rheinpfeil on May 30, 1965, when he was upgraded to a Trans - Europ - Express. The coaches exchange with the Rheingold was retained. Both trains were thus the only ones in the TEE network, the coaches brought with them.
With its top speed of 160 km / h Rheinpfeil subject first of the German Federal Railroad in 1962 issued preliminary guidelines for the planning and operation of trains over 140 km / h to 160 km / h Until the introduction of Railway Construction and Operating Regulations 1967, the train needed an exception approved by the Federal Minister of Transport to exceed those specified in the hitherto valid operating order general speed limit of 140 km / h, shall.
With the establishment of inter-city system in the German Federal Railroad in 1971 Rheinpfeil changed his train number and drove as IC 106/107. He is now wrong with the new express locomotive class 103 between Hanover and Munich.
Train numbers and path remained until the introduction of the new dual-class intercity network of the Federal Railroad in 1979. Thereafter, the Rheinpfeil wrong as IC 108/109 between Hamburg and Basel.