Kres 7403 Signaldienstwagen BR 740 003-9, DB AG, Ep. V

Kres 7403 Signaldienstwagen BR 740 003-9, DB AG, Ep. V Product Details

Description

About the model: The class 740 003-9 signal car, DB AG, from Era V is a high-quality model from the Kres brand. The model impresses with its prototypical appearance with the finest printing. The car also has headlights and marker lights that depend on the direction of travel as well as functional interior lighting.

About the prototype: In the mid-1950s, the more powerful VT98 with two underfloor engines was developed by Büssing AG from the VT95 rail bus. This not only allowed the DB to respond to the higher passenger volume by attaching two sidecars, but also to combine the powerful two-motor railcar with other railcars as a traction railcar. The resulting differences to the VT95 included the magnetic rail brake, the sleeve buffers and the screw coupling.

A total of 329 railcars, 220 VB 98 sidecars with packing compartment, 100 VB 98 sidecars without packing compartment and 310 VS 98 driving trailers were produced over several construction lots up to 1962, divided between the three manufacturers Uerdingen, MAN and WMD. These vehicles were mostly used by DB in the VT+VB+VS combination. However, there were also shorter two-car units (VT+VS), and occasionally the motor car (VT) was used alone. Longer sets, up to six-car units, were formed for particularly high passenger volumes.

In 1968, the type number of the railcars was changed to 798, the sidecars were given the numbers 998.0-3 and driving trailers 998.6-9. VT 98/798 was used on the entire DB route network from the North Frisian marshes to the foothills of the Alps, mainly on branch line services, until the year 2000.

At the beginning of the 1990s, DB converted a total of six railcars into signal service cars. They were stationed in Kassel, Fulda, Bruchsal, Kirchhain, Göttingen and Mannheim and used for maintenance and servicing tasks on points and signal systems, among other things.

Features:

• Era V
• Minimum radius: 286 mm
• Length over buffers: 116 mm
• Built-in interior lighting
• Directional headlights and marker lights
• Electrical interface for traction units according to NEM 651