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In service:
from 1991
Built by:
Length over buffers (mm):
26'400 mm
Wheelbase (distance between bogies centers) (mm):
18'300 mm
Tare weight (t):
44 t
Bogies:
GP200s (Görlitz-Prag)
Bogie wheelbase (mm):
2'600 mm
Wheel (steel tire wheel / monoblock wheel):
monoblock wheel
Maximum speed (km/h):
160 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(D) pneumatic axle-mounted disk brakes
Compartments (compartments / attendant compartment):
11x compartments + 1x attendant compartment
Number of beds / compartment (beds / folding beds):
2x beds + 1x folding beds
Total number of beds (beds / folding beds):
33x beds
Electric Train Supply (ETS) (yes / no - xxxxV AC / DC - xx,xx Hz):
1000 V AC / 17 Hz
1500 V AC / 50 Hz
1500 V DC
3000 V DC
Electric Train Heating (ETH) (yes / no - electric radiators / modulated air):
modulated air

1991

30x units from this series are ordered from Waggonbau Görlitz (part of Deutsche Waggonbau - DWA). The first units are delivered in 1991.

Due to financial reasons, only 25x units from the series are finally delivered to the Romanian State Railways (CFR) with the last coaches delivered in 1992.
 

Sources: https://www.vagonweb.cz/popisy/popisy.php?k=CFR&z=a&p=v&lang=en, https://forum.lokomotiv.ro/threads/vagoane-19-80-21-80.4273/

2004

13x units from this series are converted to WLABmee 71-70 001 - 013 passenger coaches by Atelierele CFR Grivita in Bucharest (Romania) between 2004 and 2006.  

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

2011

3x units from this series are converted to WLABmee 71-70 passenger coaches by Atelierele CFR Grivita in Bucharest (Romania) in 2011.  

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

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Latest update on the 22nd of June 2020 at 22:58

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