Flying Hamburger train (Marklin)
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Flying Hamburger train (Marklin) |
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A streamlined, articulated gauge 0 "Flying Hamburger" train, made by Märklin in 1937.
Electric, 20 Volt.
Source history
The diesel-electric Flying Hamburger (a.k.a. Fliegender Hamburger, or Hamburg Flier) -- officially the Baureihe SVT, and then the Deutsche Bundesbahn Baureihe VT -- came into service in 1933 as the basis of a high-speed inter-city rail link between Hamburg and Berlin, which was then reckoned to be the world's fastest scheduled train service.
The "Hamburger" consisted of a "pushme-pullyou" coupling of two strongly streamlined units, each of which had a rounded driver's cab at one end, followed by the engine section and an integrated carriage. A pair of these units butted together by their flat "carriage" ends produced a small, streamlined, double-ended, high-speed train that could shuttle passengers the 178 miles between the two city stations in fractionally over two and a quarter hours, and could then pick up a new batch of passengers and head straight back the other way.
See also:
- Henschel/Wegman_streamlined_train another German streamlined train for the 1930's.
- Autorail Panoramique - another double-ended two-unit train.
