"MIMARA" Express Train Passenger, 1st Class
Prototype: Croatian Railways (Hrvatske željeznice, HŽ) express train passenger car, 1st class (type Aeelmt) with the train routing "MIMARA" Zagreb - Leipzig.
Most Important Facts
| Article No. | 31161 |
|---|---|
| Gauge / Design type | Express / |
| Era | IV |
| Kind | Passenger Cars |
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Highlights
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Product description
Model: This car is for operation on 3-conductor Trix Express track. It can also be used on 2-conductor track and Märklin track by means of exchange wheel sets. Trix Express and Märklin couplers are included. The car has adjustable buffers. The 7319 plug-in current-conducting couplings or the 72020/72021 operating current-conducting couplers can be installed on the car. Length over the buffers 26.4 cm / 10-3/8".
Your authorized dealer will be happy to exchange the wheel sets free of charge: E700150 Märklin AC wheel set. E700580 Trix DC wheel set.
The class 120 locomotive goes with these cars and is available under item number 32021.
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One-time series.
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Publications
- New items brochure 2016 - Main Catalog 2016/2017
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Prototype information
The EuroCity (EC) 10/11 "Mimara" between Munich and Salzburg celebrated its premiere on June 2, 1991 with the start of the summer and the annual schedule. It ran for the first time on the route Munich – Zagreb. The Yugoslavian painter, restorer, and art collector Ante Topii´c Mimara (1898-1987) served as its namesake. Five financially independent firms were responsible for the Yugoslavian rail system even before the dissolution of Yugoslavia. They were headquartered in Zagreb, Sarajewo, Beograd, Skopje, and Ljubljana. The "Association of the Yugoslavian Railways" in Belgrade served only as an umbrella organization, which is why the Zagreb Railroad Administration for the Yugoslavian State Railways (Jugoslovenske Železnice – JŽ) purchased new, extremely comfortable cars just for this train. These cars are still used today in the best train connections out of Zagreb: These are 26.4 meter / 86 foot 7 inch long air-conditioned open seating cars for 1st and 2nd class. With a paint scheme in powder blue / light gray the color scheme was created just for these cars. The Croatian State Railways (HŽ – Hrvatske željeznice) and the Slovenian State Railways (SŽ – Slovenske železnice) that came into being with the dissolution of Yugoslavia initially kept the paint scheme variation as well as the cars for the EC "Mimara". With the start of the summer schedule for 1993, the EC 10/11 "Mimara" was extended to Leipzig and promoted to one of the "star trains" on the so-called Frankenwald rail line. This was surely if nothing else thanks to its exotic cars and motive power in the form of a class 103 electric locomotive. Starting in 1996 the routing for the "Mimara" was even extended to Berlin. With the introduction of the ICE line Hamburg – Berlin – Munich the routing of the train from Berlin to Munich was discontinued starting in 2000 and the "Mimara" terminated again in Munich. Unfortunately, the DB did away with almost all train names with the change of schedules in 2006 and there was no longer an EC "Mimara" in Germany anymore.
