B2 334

Builder Ringhoffer Werke Smichov (AP St.Polten)
Year built 1913
Previous numbers kkStb et BBö 31497, DR 205 606, ÖBB Bi 36 271,  BT 7139.013, 84 VVT
Rebuilt (1958 to diagram 31 149.01)
Number of seats 52 second class
Weight in working order 16 / 18t
Brakes O-GP 15 / 18 t
Length over body 13.80 meters (45 feet 3 inches)
Maximum speed 40 km/h (22 mph) on the VVT / 80 km/h (44 mph) in Austria

 

After the second world war, to accommodate the needs of ÖBB passengers, freight wagons in good condition were rebuilt with steel passenger standard bodies. For thirty years these represented the typical Austrian local train. Until these passenger and brake passenger carriages were sold to preserved railways and museums these twin axled carriages were in regular service.

On the 20th November 1984, three passenger carriages as well as one brake passenger carriage (BD2), planned as a sales area for souvenirs, were rescued by the VVT and arrived at St-Sulpice.

Rebuilding Work during the spring of 1985 B2 334 2003

This vehicle is in service between St-Sulpice and Travers.

http://www.voisin.ch/vvt/ : 13.07.2006