Vehicle Designation and Equipment
The Henschel-Wegmann train comprised the following:
- Steam locomotive 61 001; a streamlined tank locomotive with a 4-6-4 configuration, inside cylinders and 2.30 metre high driving wheels. Permitted top speed: 175 km/h;
- A trailer car (SBC 4ü-35) with 24 seats in 2nd and 32 seats in 3rd class, as well as four rotating seats in the panorama section at the end;
- Two centre cars (SBC 4ü) with 12 seats in 2nd and 56 seats in 3rd class.
- A trailer car (SWRPwPost 4ü) with a compartment for sorting post and packages during the journey as well as a dining area with 23 seats.
Externally the coaches resembled the express multiple units of those years. In order the achieve the desired speed, they were of light construction and were five to ten tonnes lighter than normal passenger coaches.
The short-coupled coaches could only be separated in the workshop. To couple the locomotive and coaches Scharfenberg couplers were fitted that at the same time served to couple the brake air pipes. The trailer cars had rounded ends and sloping roofs. The bogies were of the Görlitz III type, the wheelsets ran on roller bearings. Instead of the usual brake blocks the coaches were given disc brakes, that acted directly on the wheel discs.
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