The DR Class E 11 is a class of
electric locomotive
An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electricity from overhead lines, a third rail or on-board energy storage such as a Battery (electricity), battery or a supercapacitor. Locomotives with on-board fuelled prime mover (locomotive), ...
s formerly operated by the
Deutsche Reichsbahn
The ''Deutsche Reichsbahn'' (), also known as the German National Railway, the German State Railway, German Reich Railway, and the German Imperial Railway, was the Weimar Republic, German national Rail transport, railway system created after th ...
in East Germany. They were later operated by
Deutsche Bahn
(, ; abbreviated as DB or DB AG ) is the national railway company of Germany, and a state-owned enterprise under the control of the German government. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin, it is a joint-stock company ( AG).
DB was fou ...
, designated as Class 109.
Technical specifications
The locomotives have a
Bo-Bo
B-B and Bo-Bo are the AAR wheel arrangement, Association of American Railroads (AAR) and British classifications of wheel arrangement for railway locomotives with four axles in two individual bogies. They are equivalent to the B′B′ and Bo′B ...
axle arrangement and a power output of .
History
The first two pre-series locomotives entered service in 1961.
From 1970 onward, the Class E 11 was designated as ''Class 211''.
Construction resumed until 1976, with 95 locomotives built, and one locomotive rebuilt and renumbered after a rail accident, bringing the total number of locomotives to 96.
Deutsche Bahn withdrew their last former E 11 locomotive, now designated as ''Class 109'', in May 1998.
Locomotive E 11 004 was badly damaged in a rear-end collision at Großkorbetha station on 29 August 1969. The manufacturer LEW Hennigsdorf rebuilt it with a car body taken from the current series using usable parts. When it was put back into service, it was given the new company number 211 056 because it no longer corresponded to the original construction and delivery condition.
File:BNE GVG 109-3 BL.jpg, Former E 11 operated by Georg Verkehrsorganisation, hauling the Berlin-Night-Express in September 2008
File:E11 033 01.JPG, Cab of E 11 033
References
Further reading
*https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-Baureihe_E_11
External links
E 11 001 - DB Museum website
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Electric locomotives of Germany
15 kV AC locomotives
E 11
Standard-gauge locomotives of Germany
Passenger locomotives
LEW locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1961