Product Features and Details
· Precise replica of the bogies
· In-plane assembled windows
· True-to epoch interior fittings
· Prepared for interior lighting
· Printed window frames
· Elastic rubber bulge
· NEM-standard short coupling
· Replica of the air heating system in the car floor
· Alternator on bogie separately mounted
· Finest paintwork and printing
· Free-standing handrails
· Applied steps in low material thickness
· Free-standing anti-roll support on the pivot mounting
· Interior fittings in multi-color painting
· Coloring in accordance with TGL, corresponding to the original
· Exact replica of the “Görlitz V” pivot mountings
Various changes, especially to the WC units, later led to several sub-types. The first track on which the new cars were used was the Leipzig - Chemnitz line, declared a regional express train (RegionalSchnellBahn, or RSB). The locomotive used here was the BR 232. Because of the progressive decommissionings of the DR and replacements by railcars, the cars were also used in states of former West Germany. For use in push-pull trains with locomotives without ZWS, some received the 36-pole control line from the old DB pushpull control cars. Most, however, went into operation with the control cars converted in 1995 from Bybdzf 482 into push-pull service with ZWS. In the former DR region, the BR 112, 143, 219 and 234 were especially used in this capacity. By now, most cars have been scrapped or sold. Many were taken over by Hungarian State Railways. Eisenach - Hall is one of the last lines in the DB in which the „langer Halberstädter” are used.
