BRAWA E 95-TT Betriebsanleitung Seite 3

Operating Instructions
E-Locomotive E 95 – TT
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For its newly electrificated line from Breslau-Bockau (now
Poland) to Arnsdorf near Dresden the Deutsche Reichsbahn
in the middle twenties needed a fast and powerful engine.
By this one freight trains up to 2200 tons of load and
passenger trains up to a velocity of 65 km/h should be
transported. The existing machines could not fulfil these
conditions as they were too weak or too slow. After various
conventional designs with rod drives it was decided to
construct the new engine with single axle drive. The necessary
traction required at least six driven axles, the planned velocity
at that time's state of the art required additional leading
running axles. At the end of 1927 the first of the 6 locomotives
from the AEG was delivered. The remaining followed till the
middle of 1928. The machines were designed as double
locomotives, with two almost identical halves. This was done
by regard to the existing workstands in the maintenance
plants. The machines had a performance of 2418 kW. With a
length of 20.9 m and an operating mass of 138.5 t they are
up to now the biggest and heaviest electric locomotives.
The engines were stationed till the end of war in the Hirsch-
berg operating plant (east Germany, now Poland), only the E
95 06 in 1933 had been stationed at Kornwestheim near Stutt-
gart to perform comparative trips with the
E 93. The Reichsbahn originally planned to provide the
E 95 in large series and to employ it between Stuttgart and
Munich. Due to the high purchase costs, however, the sim-
pler E 93 and, based on this type, the E 94 were developped.
So it stuck at six units. After the second world war all six
machines were deported to the USSR, however, not employed
there. As the GDR in 1952 was allowed to buy back the
confiscated electric locomotives, also all six E 95 were among
them. The seriously damaged huge machines were parked
there till 1959 as the restoration of the E 44 and E 94 had
priority. Yet the urgent need of electric traction vehicles then
required the restoration of the E 95. Only the E 95 01 to E 95
03 were rendered serviceable again, the others became spare
part donors. The planned restoration also of these locomotives
remained undone due to the big expense. The notorious
shortage of spare parts later on, among other things, forced
to install the wheel sets of the E 11 / E 42 in the
E 95. The three giants first had their home in Leipzig-Wah-
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