Origins← Previous revisionRevision as of 00:37, 30 October 2026 Line 63: Line 63: == Origins == == Origins == [[Image:Germany Rail 020 Rudesheim 2.jpg|thumb|[[DRG Class 03]] locomotive with a rake of Prussian three-axle non-corridor compartment carriages in 1954; the chasses of these cars would be used as the basis of the Umbauwagens.]] After the [[Second World War]], the [[Deutsche Bundesbahn|DB]], like the [[Deutsche Reichsbahn (GDR)|Deutsche Reichsbahn]] (DR) in [[East Germany]], had a serious deficit of stock as well as a very aged fleet of coaches, a situation which lasted into the 1960s. In the 1950s the bulk of the fleet for [[local train|local]] and ''[[Eilzug]]'' (semi-fast) trains was still made up of 22,345 four-, six- and eight-wheeled compartment and [[open coach]]es of the former [[Prussian state railways|Prussian]] and [[Royal Bavarian State Railways|Bavarian]] classes from the period before and after the [[First World War]]. The few [[Eilzugwagen#Städtewagen / yl coaches|city coaches]] bought for ''Eilzug'' services at the beginning of the 1950s were nowhere near enough to replace and modernise the very outdated stock of passenger coaches and which was also costing considerably more to maintain. The levels of steel production and that of other raw materials of the newly formed [[Federal Republic of Germany|Federal Republic]] did not permit a full replacement of the fleet in those days. Like the DR in the 1960s the DB was forced as early as 1953 to carry out a modernisation of pre-war coaches - plainly and simply called an ''Umbau'' or ''rebuild''. After the [[Second World War]], the [[Deutsche Bundesbahn|DB]], like the [[Deutsche Reichsbahn (GDR)|Deutsche Reichsbahn]] (DR) in [[East Germany]], had a serious deficit of stock as well as a very aged fleet of coaches, a situation which lasted into the 1960s. In the 1950s the bulk of the fleet for [[local train|local]] and ''[[Eilzug]]'' (semi-fast) trains was still made up of 22,345 four-, six- and eight-wheeled compartment and [[open coach]]es of the former [[Prussian state railways|Prussian]] and [[Royal Bavarian State Railways|Bavarian]] classes from the period before and after the [[First World War]]. The few [[Eilzugwagen#Städtewagen / yl coaches|city coaches]] bought for ''Eilzug'' services at the beginning of the 1950s were nowhere near enough to replace and modernise the very outdated stock of passenger coaches and which was also costing considerably more to maintain. The levels of steel production and that of other raw materials of the newly formed [[Federal Republic of Germany|Federal Republic]] did not permit a full replacement of the fleet in those days. Like the DR in the 1960s the DB was forced as early as 1953 to carry out a modernisation of pre-war coaches - plainly and simply called an ''Umbau'' or ''rebuild''.