European Railroad Discussion > The Schienenbus

Gone from the secondary branchline scene of DB and RB since the 90's and looking not unlike MACK Rail buses on the New Haven, these diminutive rail buses continue in excursion and charter service around Germany. In this series a two car set operated into Wiesbaden in August 2006 for an all day rail festival providing shuttle service from Wiesbaden to Mainz. If your German is passable try this website
www.der-schienenbus.de

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Used to refer them to as steam engine killers....

ThomasE

Krokodil Wrote:
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> Used to refer them to as steam engine killers....
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> ThomasE

I've seen the term "nebenbahnretter" used to describe them, which I think translates as "secondary railway line saviour."

Ray

Similar rail buses were used in Finland, and are now in museum service. This one is approaching Porvoo, Finland, in August '04. Gerry

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GPutz Wrote:
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> Similar rail buses were used in Finland, and are
> now in museum service. This one is approaching
> Porvoo, Finland, in August '04. Gerry


The Finns were built on licence from Hilding Carlsson, Umea, Sweden. In Sweden they were called Y6, Y7, Y8 and narrow gauge YP.They had a Scania 8 cylinder in line diesel. They certainly saved both standard and narrow gauge traffic in Sweden to the end of the 60ies. Picture shows an YP (Yo5p)in Västervik 1963.

Tom

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The predecessor to Y6 was the wooden Body-structure Yo1 built by Hilding Carlsson in the 40'ies both for 1435, 1067 (1t) and 891 (1p) mm gauge. Picture 1 shows Yo1t (1067mm) in 1963.
There were an electric version of Y6 called X6 (pic 2)This one in Södertälje about 1960.
Between Yo1 and Y6 another manufacturer tried the Yo4 for 891 and 1067mm gauge (pic 3)This one Yo4t (1067) in Karlshamn 1964.

Do you want more?

Tom

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In Denmark the 'Skinnebus* was built locally from the Swedish Yo1 drawings. later Secondary Lines bought second-hand Swedish Y6.
This one is ready for departure in July 1961 on Southern Jutland in Denmark.

Tom

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Way cool buncha shots of some nifty little critters! Thanks for showing--Kurt.

During the Heilbronn Plandampf in October 2007 they ran one behind an 052 class. It was explained that on occasion the rail bus would break down and a steam engine would be assigned to keep the schedule so this was historically accurate.


cp1400

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And this is the modern version of the diesel railbus, that eliminated several locomotive pulled trains (that would had been discontinued without existance of this railbus). The same story, different decade, not the 50s but the 21st century.

1) Class Dm12 in Haapamäki Finland

2) Dm12 in Pieksamaki Finland

3) These Dm7's would justify the use of locomotive pulled train wouldn't they ;) ...except that all are in museum train use.

Thanks for sharing all these railbus pictures around Europe!

GPutz Wrote:
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> Similar rail buses were used in Finland, and are
> now in museum service. This one is approaching
> Porvoo, Finland, in August '04. Gerry



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/20/09 06:18 by McKey.

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