ISSUE SEPTEMBER 2023
Welcome to a brand-new issue of the BRAWA News Express!
In the actual issue of the News Express, BRAWA presents 18 brand-new models in gauge H0 which are not in the New Items Brochure 2023. The special thing about the News Express is that the models will be delivered to the stores in the near future.
Further information and details about the models are available on the relevant product pages. You can download the actual issue of the News Express here and on our download page. We hope you enjoy discovering the numerous details.
City-Bahn – Without traffic jams at hourly intervals
In order to replace the local train and make secondary lines more attractive, Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) introduced the new City-Bahn train category at the timetable change on September 30, 1984. Under the motto „City-Bahn – Without traffic jams at hourly intervals“, a dense interval timetable was introduced and existing n-carriages were modernized for this purpose.
H0 Passenger Coach ABnrzb772 "City-Bahn" DB
Ep. IV, road no.: 50 80 31-34 025-2
The Cologne-Overath-Gummersbach-Meinerzhagen line, which was in danger of being decommissioned, was the first line to be equipped with this service. 25 n-carriages, seven of them control cars, were given a modern interior and painted pure orange/pebble gray, similar to the Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn. A café was added to the sets.
The BRAWA models of the passenger coaches take into account the corresponding design differences. The roofs are equipped with a precise reproduction of the weld seams. The cars come with numerous other details such as axle bearings in metal axle brackets, multi-part brake system, finely engraved details, and short coupling kinematics according to NEM.
The new passenger coaches wil be available from specialist dealers by the end of the 4th quarter of 2023.
H0 Control Car BDnrzb784 "City-Bahn" DB
Ep. IV, road no.: 50 80 82-34 295-9
For fans of the most beautiful details
The BRAWA models of these freight cars are equipped with numerous details and feature the trademark of the traditional company Westfalia, that was also in use on all Westfalia trailers until 1969. The Westfalia company is considered the inventor of the ball coupling known from trailers and caravans.
H0 Covered Freight Car G10 "Westfalia" DB
Ep. III, road-no.:114 225
H0 Covered Freight Car Gmhs30 "Westfalia" DB
Ep. III, road-no.: 222 062
H0 Covered Freight Car Glr22 "Westfalia" DB
Ep. III, road-no.: 192 041
Covered Freight Car G10
Tariff conditions on the one hand and technical conditions on the other resulted in all State railway administrations developing box cars with almost identical dimensions and payloads. These cars had a 4.5 m wheelbase, a length over buffers of 9.3 m for unbraked cars, a payload of 15 t, later 17 t and a floor area of approx. 21 square metres.
The most common State railway cars, which numbered 47,533, were built according to the Prussian style sheet IId8. After the founding of the Deutscher Staatsbahn Wagen Verband (German state railway car federation) DWV in 1909, the federation car construction type A2 was developed from this. From 1911 a phenomenal total of 121,770 units were built, making it the most heavily produced box car.
The BRAWA models of the covered freight cars have a lot of details true-to-original e.g. precise replica of board joints, brake blocks in wheel plane, many separately mounted parts, perforated coach body supports and finest paintwork and printing.
The delivery to specialist dealers will take place at the end of the 4th quarter of 2023.
Classics of Goods Traffic – Covered Freight CarS Gbs DR
Freight cars have always been required on the railways, now as in the past. The Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) was able to provide a short-term remedy in the 1950s through retrofitting and modernisation, but it was clear that other solutions would have to be found in the long-term. As a result, in 1965 the Leipzig RAW “unit” designed a Glmms car which complied substantially with the standard characteristics of the UIC leaflet. The lessons learned from the test locomotives were incorporated in the series wagon produced from 1968, which was now known as Glmms 14.05 (later Gbs 1500). The design, with its distinctive corrugated side panels, came into being as a fully welded structure. The side panels were moved down onto the lower edge of the bodysolebar and welded to the box profiles. This allowed for simplified side body supports. In order to prevent damage to the sheet metal walls during loading, the wagons were lined internally with wood. The floor consisted of standard pine planks and was suitable for loading with a forklift. Based on the Gbs 1500 design, of which over 1700 units were manufactured, a number of different versions were produced, including insulated boxcars, express goods wagons and vestibule cars. Since production capacity was almost exhausted at domestic facilities, wagons were also constructed in neighbouring countries and even Spain. Due to their RIV, MC and OPW transport suitability, the wagons could be used with relative freedom outside the DDR and were therefore often seen in Bundesbahn trains even before the fall of the Iron Curtain. However, until DB AG was founded, there were still as many as 7,000 wagons in use.
The BRAWA models of the Covered Freight Car Gbs will be available at your specialist dealer by the end of the 4th quarter of 2023. They come with numerous details e.g. metal wheels, individually mounted signal holder and axle box cover, multi-part brake system, brake shoes in wheel plane, metal axle bearing, true to original car bottom and short coupling kinematics according to NEM.
Covered Freight Car Post2s-t/13 "Deutsche Bundespost" DR
The BRAWA model of the Covered Freight Car Post2s-t/13 "Deutsche Bundespost" DR is equipped with numerous details, e.g. metal wheels, individually mounted signal holder and axle box cover, metal axle bearing, multi-part brake system, brake shoes in wheel plane, true to original car bottom, finest paintwork and printing and short coupling kinematics according to NEM.
The delivery to specialist dealers will take place at the end of the 4th quarter of 2023.
H0 Covered Freight Car Post2s-t/13 "Deutsche Bundespost" DR
Ep. IV, road-no.: 50 50 00-10 423-0
Covered Freight Car Gmrhs30 DB
The introduction of welding technology from 1933 onwards increasingly made the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) switch to joining the components of their wagons by welding instead of riveting. One of the main advantages of welding technology was the weight saving which could then be used for increasing the cargo weight. In order to respond to the demand for higher speeds in part-load traffic as well, the DR developed the "Gs Oppeln", starting in 1936. Due to its wheel base of 6000mm, its maximum permissible speed could be fixed at 90 km/h. In addition to the missing junction plates that were made superfluous by the welding technology, this wagon type mainly differed in the pointed truss frame required due to the long wheel base. The increasing need for goods wagons due to the war led to the mass production of the "Gs Oppeln" from 1938 onwards. As a result, about 28,000 wagons without and 6,100 wagons with handbrake were built in the following years. Many of the wagons were equipped with a steam heating or even an electric heating system and could therefore be used as part-load wagons in semi-fast and express trains without any problems. After the end of World War II, the wagons were distributed all over Europe and could be found, for example, in the service of the railway administrations of Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, or Belgium. The reorganisation of the vehicle numbers of the young Deutsche Bundesbahn in the early fifties of the last century led to the change of "Gs Oppeln" into "Gms 30". Some of the wagons even came into the EUROP wagon pool, thus serving on an international basis. With the emergence of the first newly built goods wagons at the end of the fifties, a decision was made against an expensive general overhaul of the wagons. When the UIC numbering system was introduced, the existing wagons were re-numbered into "Glms 200", and some of them survived until 1979.
H0 Covered Freight Car Gmrhs30 DB
Ep. III, road-no.: 235 008
The BRAWA model of the Covered Freight Car Gmrhs30 DB is equipped with many details, e.g. metal axle bearing, bogie with three-point support, true to original frame construction, individually mounted axle box cover and many more separately mounted parts, brake blocks in wheel plane, perforated car body supports, and short coupling kinematics according to NEM.
The delivery to specialist dealers will take place at the end of the 4th quarter 2023.
Lightweight Tank Cars in Uerdinger Design
Thanks to general technical advances in lightweight construction and welding technology, the management at the National Railway (Reichsbahn) decided to dispense with the actual vehicle frame when designing new tank wagons. Instead, the tensile and impact forces would, as far as possible, be absorbed by the boiler. Through the extensive use of welding technology, the goal was to reduce the raw-material requirements and manufacturing costs while at the same time obtaining more robust vehicles. For this reason, the wagon factory in Uerdingen received an order in 1938 to develop a lightweight tank car with a cargo volume of 30m³. As early as 1939, the three prototypes were handed over to two private goods-wagon rental companies as well as the state’s economic research association (Wirtschaftliche Forschungsgesellschaft (Wifo)) for testing. Following a small intermediate series in 1940, series production of the 30m³ Uerdinger-type lightweight tank wagon began in 1941. The largest customer was the German air force (Luftwaffe) with approx. 2,200 units, followed by the Wifo and many smaller companies, which resulted in a total of around 3,700 cars being built. In the post-war period, the wagons acquired by the Wifo and Luftwaffe were redistributed to other wagon operators in both German states. In the following decades, the wagons were primarily used by larger companies in the mineral oil industry, and also by smaller private companies as well as DB and DR themselves. Some of the wagons also remained abroad, where they were operated by new owners. In 2016 one of these wagons was still in use in internal interfactory traffic at Haltermann in Hamburg.
The BRAWA models of the Light Weight Tank Car are equipped with numerous details, e.g. bogie with three-point support, individually mounted axle box cover and wheelchocks, individually mounted brake systems, finely engraved bogies, brake blocks in wheel plane, individually mounted axle brake rod and free standing handle bars.
The two models are already available from specialist dealers.
Limited model "Christmas 2023"
The Printe – a delicacy from Lambertz
Far beyond the city and state borders, the „Lambertz‘sche Printe“ enjoys great popularity. The history of the crispy pastry dates back to the year 1688, when a small bakery was founded in Aachen‘s Sonnenstraße. Today, the traditional family business sells its various pastries worldwide and is the world market leader in seasonal pastries.
The incomparable taste of the “Printe” comes from fine spices such as cloves, cardamom and coriander. When Henry Lambetz‘s daughter accidentally dipped her traditional “Kräuterprinte” [Herbal Printe] in chocolate, the first German pastry with a chocolate coating was created – the extremely popular “Schokoladenprinte” [Chocolate Printe]. The product range was expanded in 1938 with the production of the „Saftprinte” [Juice Printe].
H0 Covered Freight Car G10 "Lambertz" DB
Ep. III, road-no.: 125 627
The BRAWA model comes with a lot of detail, e.g. true to original frame construction, precise replica of board joints, multi-part brake system, metal wheels and axles, individually mounted signal holder and axle box cover, brake blocks in wheel plane, perforated car body supports and precise paintwork and printing.
The model will be delivered to specialist dealers at the 4th quarter 2023. This is a limited edition – so secure your own model as soon as possible before the special range is sold out!
RPP: Recommended retail price (incl. 19 % VAT), prices are subject to change. Subject to modifications in design and shape. Colour deviations are possible.
BASF, Bautzner, Deutsche Post, IFA, Julius Meinl, Kaiser Bier, Lambertz, Leuna, Paul Millet, Rei and Westfalia are registered trademarks.