Product Features and Details
Information about the model
For use in regional transport, DB AG procured numerous new vehicles from the late 1990s onwards, most of which were multiple units. From 1999 to 2008, the consortium Siemens/Adtranz/Bombardier/DWA also acquired 249 units of a four-car electric multiple unit, designated BR 425. An identical two-car variant for less frequently used routes was built as BR 426. The car bodies are made of extruded aluminum profiles, and the windows are flush-bonded. The car bodies are supported by Jacobs bogies, with each end bogie driven by two three-phase traction motors. The train is fully accessible inside and has a total of 206 seats and 228 standing places. 24 seats are located in the first-class compartment, and 30 seats are fold-down seats. The 425 units were and are operated by DB Regio NRW; Baden-Württemberg; Southwest; Bavaria; Southeast; North; Schleswig-Holstein and Berlin, as well as private railway companies, did not procure any of these multiple units. Their duties include service on S-Bahn networks, such as that of the Rhine-Neckar Transport Association in the Ludwigshafen – Mannheim – Heidelberg triangle, as well as operation as regional express trains on long-distance routes. These include, for example, Mannheim – Saarbrücken – Trier or Magdeburg – Stendal – Wittenberge – Salzwedel.
Model details
- Three-dimensional front faithfully reproduced
- Additional high-voltage equipment and climate control boxes
- Finely detailed pantograph
- Fine engravings
- Window fitted perfectly
- Functional and illuminated train destination displays
- LED lighting
- Faithful detailing of the bogies, including consideration of the differences between the BR 425 and BR 426.
- Windscreen wipers attached individually
- Front-mounted train destination indicator behind the windshield
- Exemplary resting position of the pantograph
- Prepared or built-in for sound.
- Including interior lighting
- Interior fittings built in
- Close coupling kinematics according to NEM standard, for double traction
- Power is always drawn from the front part of the train by switching the slip switch.
