Description
We discovered the model for our D 1213 in the Eisenbahnjournal special issue 5/93 on the V200. The photo shows the complete train on May 19, 1974 near Seifen in the Allgäu. The train locomotive is 221 143. We have realized this train with our wagons in an authentic composition.
In the 1974 summer timetable, the D1213 connected the Ruhr area with the vacation resort of Oberstdorf, the southernmost municipality in Germany. From Dortmund via Essen, Düsseldorf, Cologne and Bonn to Mainz, Mannheim and Stuttgart and from there via Ulm and Kempten finally to Oberstdorf. The prototype train is one of the vacation trains between the Ruhr area and the Allgäu. The connection was set up in 1970 as D1212 in a south-north direction and D 1213 in a north direction. It was given the new train numbers D 1512/1513 for the1974 summer timetable. The train ran with these numbers until the 1978/79 winter timetable. It was then dropped as part of the restructuring of train connections with the introduction of the IC 79 system. In the winter timetables, the train only ran at weekends. As the main vacation train between the Ruhr area and the Allgäu, it also ran scheduled coaches, including to destinations such as Lindau, Reutte, Innsbruck and Bad Wörishofen, which left the train at the en route stations of Ulm, Memmingen and Kempten. We accompany our train on its last section between Kempten and its destination of Oberstdorf after unhooking the coaches. The train consists of the usual green and blue üm wagons from the 1950s and two green Büm 234 wagons from the 1960s. The tourist dining car of type WRtüm 134 is striking. According to the train formation plan, a BRbuüm buffet car should be included, but it was replaced by a WRtüm 134 on the day the photo was taken. The use of WRtüm 134 away from the travel agency tourism trains is not an isolated case. The home station in Dortmund used its tourist dining cars more frequently on other trains. For example, WRtüm134s are regularly used both in exhibition trains to the Hanover Fair and in the TEE Parzival (Dortmund-Paris).
In the 1974 train formation plan, the wagons are arranged as follows:
Büm 232 Car 11 Dortmund-Oberstdorf
Büm 232 Car 12 Dortmund-Oberstdorf
BDüm 272 Car 14 Dortmund-Oberstdorf
WRtüm 134 without no. Dortmund-Oberstdorf
Aüm 202 Car 16 Dortmund-Oberstdorf
ABüm 223 Car 17 Dortmund-Oberstdorf
Büm 234 Car 18 Dortmund-Oberstdorf
Büm 234 Car 19 Dortmund-Oberstdorf
Our car models are made by L.S. Models. As usual with Hobbytrain/LSM, the cars are reproduced down to the smallest detail inside and out. The side walls of the compartments in the model consist of transparent plastic strips, which are authentically printed with visible profiles, panels, reservation boards, vents etc. on both sides.
