{"id":54276,"date":"2023-12-19T23:17:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T22:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=54276"},"modified":"2024-01-10T23:07:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T22:07:14","slug":"old-abandoned-trains-in-germany-that-will-be-familiar-to-many-spaniards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/12\/19\/old-abandoned-trains-in-germany-that-will-be-familiar-to-many-spaniards\/","title":{"rendered":"Old abandoned trains in Germany that will be familiar to many Spaniards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The train is an important means of transportation that has been used for several generations by many countries.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/12\/03\/a-colossal-secret-military-railway-facility-in-the-heart-of-a-chinese-mountain\/\">A colossal secret military railway facility in the heart of a Chinese mountain<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/03\/10\/some-abandoned-steam-locomotives-that-were-waiting-for-a-nuclear-war\/\">Some abandoned steam locomotives that were waiting for a nuclear war<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Some trains became popular because they were the transportation in which many people made short trips. A few days ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@lostintimeNL\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LostintimeNL<\/a> <strong>published a video of abandoned Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) trains, the German Federal Railway<\/strong>, on disused railway tracks that are being taken over by vegetation. <strong>If you live in Spain and talk to your parents or grandparents, surely some of these trains will sound familiar to them<\/strong>, even if they have never been to Germany:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Abandoned trains (Trains H) Germany Oct 2023 (urbex lost places Duitsland train trein treinen tug)\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F5RyVNcOdMs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Let's see some screenshots from the video here. The first thing that appears is <strong>a DB 701 Series railway service vehicle<\/strong>, a type of train known in Germany as <em>Turmtriebwagen<\/em>, that is, tower car. <strong>They were used for the maintenance of electrified railway lines<\/strong>, which is why they were also known as <em>Oberleitungsrevisionswagen<\/em> (Catenary Inspection Wagon) and <em>Oberleitungswagen<\/em> (Catenary Wagon). For those not familiar with railway terms, <strong>\"catenary\" is what the electrical lines on electrified tracks are called<\/strong>, cables that supply energy to the train through pantographs, devices located on the electric locomotives that come into contact with those cables.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53408737006_5d2927c499_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, Turmtriebwagen are very specific vehicles and little known to the general public, not like what we can see below: <strong>a Waggonfabrik Uerdingen VT 95<\/strong>. In Germany, this small train was called <em>Schienenbus<\/em> (railway bus), but <strong>in Spain it was popularly known as \"Ferrob\u00fas\"<\/strong>. The first to arrive in Spain in 1956, those of the FER 301 series, were manufactured by the German company Waggonfabrik Uerdingen. <strong>They mainly served as self-propelled trains on regional trips.<\/strong> The last ones were withdrawn from service by RENFE in 1992. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53407814757_faa3539f3e_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another DB 701 Series railway service vehicle<\/strong>, without lights and with broken windows. In this one we can see the panels that it had on its roof to carry out maintenance on the catenaries. <strong>This series 701 was built on the basis of the VT 98 railway buses<\/strong> from 1968.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53407814762_21c699532d_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another Waggonfabrik Uerdingen VT 95<\/strong>, with the characteristic red color that many of these railway buses used by DB had. This one, sadly, is destroyed and without a roof. It must be said that 1,492 VT 95 and VT 98 railway buses were built in Germany. Today, <strong>in German museums there are 26 that are still operational and another 11 that are no longer operational<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53409072184_5bcd29f5a6_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The train is an important means of transportation that has been used for several generations by many countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19535,16877,20878],"tags":[20786,20783,10929,20785],"class_list":["post-54276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploring-portada-eng","category-ruins","category-trains","tag-db-701-series","tag-deutsche-bundesbahn-db","tag-germany","tag-waggonfabrik-uerdingen-vt-95"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}