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Cronenberger Samba Railcar on the Sambatrasse

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Cronenberger Samba Railcar on the Sambatrasse

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Sebastian

April 27, 2018

On this website, there are great information about the route and, finally, also closure:

bahnen-wuppertal.de/html/cronenberger-strecke.html

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RALF G. 🚲🍀

April 14, 2021

"The name" Cronenberger Samba "was born

From 1951 onwards, the young German Federal Railroad considered for the first time to operate rail transport on branch lines more economically. With the construction of rail buses of the VT 95 series and later the more powerful VT 98, many passenger trains hauled by locomotives disappeared from the branch lines in the 1950s. This is what happened on the route to Cronenberg. The well-known name Cronenberger "Samba" also comes from this time. The rail buses gave the passengers a completely new driving experience, because the long wheelbase of the vehicles made the tight bends particularly hard to feel. By rocking and swaying in the curves, the comparison with a samba dance arose and the name Cronenberger "Samba" was born. The Cronenberger Samba was wrongly called "Samba-Express". In the Cronenberg vernacular one speaks only of the Cronenberger Samba. After passenger transport was taken over by rail buses in 1955, the timetable was expanded to include the hourly service that was last used. "

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der-cronenberger-samba.de/story2.htm)

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Wolfgang Ross

September 23, 2017

This old car of the "Samba train" stands on the samba road in the Hahnerberg area.

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Location: Bergisches Land, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Cronenberger Samba Railcar on the Sambatrasse

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