| Passenger car set with 12 cars - Blauer Enzian - TEE
* 4 type Avümh 111 TEE compartment cars, 1st class, with roofs rounded on the ends,
* 4 type Apümh 121 TEE open seating cars, 1st class, with roofs rounded on the ends,
* 2 type TEE ARDümh 105 bar cars, 1st class, with roofs with vertical ends
* 2 type WRümh 132 TEE dining cars with roofs with vertical ends.
All the cars are painted and lettered for the German Federal Railroad (DB).
The cars look as they did in the fall of 1967.
Source:www.maerklin.de
The Blauer Enzian / Blue Gentian TEE. In the old German Federal Republic the North-South connection was the most important principal route and the route from Hamburg to Munich enjoyed the greatest priority. The F-Zug network of long distance express trains introduced in 1951 used the latest cars and locomotives on this route and a contest is the reason why one of the most famous trains on this routing was christened Blauer Enzian / Blue Gentian in 1953. The Blauer Enzian / Blue Gentian was upgraded to TEE status in 1965 with the completion of electrification for the route to Hamburg and its cars were adapted to the Trans Europe Express standards. A new type WRmh 132 dining car, built starting in 1964, was assigned to the train as well as a bar car, the latter being dropped from the train from 1969 on. In the South the trains route was extended to Klagenfurt, Austria and in the winter also as a parallel train via Kufstein to the ski areas in the Tyrol up to Zell am See near Salzburg, Austria. The trains TEE status was given up in 1971 with the introduction of the German Federal Railroads InterCity concept; from 1979 on the DB offered the popular North-South routing with 2nd class cars too. This routing has remained attractive with the introduction of the EuroCity trains in 1987, but the name Blauer Enzian has disappeared and along with it a part of German railroad history. |
