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B 20-47

UIC / EVN numbering:

50 53 20-47

Vehicle type:

Regular passenger coach

Registration country:

Romania

Railway companies:

CFR - Caile Ferate RomâneSNTFC - Societatea Naţională de Transport Feroviar de Călători (CFR Călători)

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In service:

from 1978

Built by:

Length over buffers (mm):

24'500 mm

Width (mm):

2'880 mm

Height (mm | over lowered pantograph):

4'050 mm

Wheelbase (distance between bogies centers) (mm):

17'200 mm

Minimum radius of curvature on open stretches (m):

150 m

Minimum radius of curvature on switching sections (m):

80 m

Tare weight (t):

41 t

Bogies:

Minden-Deutz

Bogie wheelbase (mm):

2'500 mm

Wheel (steel tire wheel / monoblock wheel):

steel tire wheel

Maximum speed (km/h):

140 km/h

Braking system (vacuum brakes / air brakes / electropneumatic brakes / electronically controlled pneumatic brakes / electric brakes - tread (clasp) brakes / axle-mounted disk brakes / wheel-mounted disk brakes / dynamic brakes / regenerative brakes / rail brakes):

KE-GPR pneumatic tread (clasp) brakes

Compartments (compartments / attendant compartment):

10x compartments

Number of seats / compartment (1st class seats / 2nd class seats / 3rd class seats / folding seats):

8x 2nd class seats

Total number of seats (1st class seats / 2nd class seats / 3rd class seats / folding seats):

80x 2nd class seats

Toilets (direct discharge toilets / closed circuit toilets):

2x direct discharge toilets

Electric Train Supply (ETS) (yes / no - xxxxV AC / DC - xx,xx Hz):

1500 V AC / 50 Hz

Electric Train Heating (ETH) (yes / no - electric radiators / modulated air):

modulated air*
*units code 201
electric radiators*
*units code 800

Steam Train Heating (yes / no):

yes

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1978

These units are built between 1978 and 1990, most of them by Arad Wagon Company (Intreprinderea de Vagoane Arad - IVA), more recently known as Astra Wagons Arad (Astra Vagoane Arad). A small number is built by MEVA Drobeta Turnu Severin.

Sources: https://forum.metrouusor.com/ViewTopic?TopicId=703&PageNum=1

1999

91x units from this series are converted to Blee 20-54 passenger coaches by Remar in Pascani (Romania) between 1999 and 2000.

Sources: https://www.vagonweb.cz/popisy/popisy.php?k=CFR&z=a&p=v&lang=en

2008

Between 2008 and 2009, some units are modernised and converted to Series 20-49.0 2nd class passenger coaches.

Sources: https://forum.metrouusor.com/ViewTopic?TopicId=689&PageNum=1

2009

Between 2009 and 2011, some units are modernised and converted to Series 20-49.2 2nd class passenger coaches.

Sources: https://forum.metrouusor.com/ViewTopic?TopicId=689&PageNum=1

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Latest update on the 8th of November 2020 at 15:21

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