Brawa 58081 express train car B4ümg-63, DB, Ep.III

Brawa 58081 express train car B4ümg-63, DB, Ep.III Product Details

Description

About the model: The DB express train car B4ümg-63, belonging to Era III, is a high-quality model from the BRAWA brand. The car was manufactured on a scale of 1:87 and impresses with its high-quality appearance with detailed paintwork and printing. Furthermore, the model has been equipped with numerous features, such as a complete interior as well as extra steps and grab rails. The carriage has also been prepared for retrofitting interior lighting.

About the prototype: The German Federal Railroad Central Office (BZA) Minden of the German Federal Railroad (DB) developed a type program for 26.4 m long-distance coaches (Group-53) around 1952.

Under the direction of Dr.-Ing. Adolf Mielich, a wagon program designed as a modular system was created. He took up his designs from the Reichsbahn era, as well as many modern elements such as the closed rubber bead transitions and 1000 or 1200 mm wide transfer windows. It differed from the pre-war wagon types in its even number of compartments and symmetrical wagon halves, which made it possible to combine the same or different wagon classes as well as dining and packing compartments.

After nine trial coaches in 1952, series production began in 1955. The B4ümg-54 passenger coaches (1225 units) offered 2nd class passengers only three seats per bench for the first time, instead of the previous four. This improvement in comfort in the "passenger coach for the people" was very well received by passengers.

The first-class A4ümg-54 coach design (199 units) underlined the increased travel comfort of the time in exemplary fashion. The coaches left the factories in an elegant dark blue livery and were primarily used in DB's F train sets. The wagon group 53 was completed by the mixed-class AB4ümg-55 (357 units) and, from the end of the 1950s, by the BPw4üm-58/59 half-luggage wagons (138 units).

Thanks to their pioneering innovations, the coaches, and the later conversions derived from them, were an integral part of DB passenger trains for decades to come. It is therefore not surprising that some of the last coaches were only taken out of service at the beginning of the 1990s, or then began a second life in museum traffic.

Features:

• Gauge: H0
• Era III
• Length over buffers: 303 mm
• Scale reproduction of the windows
• Alternator separately attached to the bogie
• Compatible with the electric coupler from the BRAWA range
• Type 094/096 wheelsets with corrugated wheel disks on both sides
• Design of the butt-welded roofs
• Extra attached steps and grab rails
• Period-appropriate interior fittings
• Spring-mounted rubber bead at the transition
• Interior lighting prepared
• Close coupler kinematics
• Direct current