2/2017 Get wet with the yellow fleet Bathing time in Dresden’s swimming pools PREFACE 3 BUTCHER With its 11 shops, Fleischerei Klotsche GmbH is a traditional craft company from Radeburg with a company history of over 100 years. 2/2017 The butchers place a particular emphasis on the production process: premium ingredients processed fresh every day. Dear readers, 4 What moves you? Regular inspections by the bacteriology and food hygiene laboratory ensure did you know that our first low floor trams have already been 6 Top topic that our products are closely monitored. in use for 20 years? That means they are now two thirds of the way through their planned service lives. To boost the capacity 10 DVB services In addition to seasonal game specialities, Fleischerei Klotsche offers customers of our fleet and replace older vehicles, we are currently getting 12 News ready to purchase new trams. The Europe-wide tender was a wide range of outstanding sausages and meats. announced in March, and we expect the first indicative quota- 16 Allow us to introduce... Radeburger: liver sausage, salami, bacon, as well as classics like bockwurst, tions by the end of the year. 18 Down the line Wiener and boiled garlic sausage. 22 Leo’s world Not forgetting the varied range of specialities for the barbecue season! You can read all about the features we require and what technical details are important for the new trams in this issue. 24 Crossword puzzle We also show you which open-air swimming pools are easy to reach by rail and bus, answer questions that interest you, 25 Book draw follow tram 2 “Down the line” from Gorbitz to Kleinzschachwitz 26 Fleischerei Klotsche GmbH and give you a chance to win tickets and books. Trip tips – Dresden’s swimming pools Riesstraße 4 I hope you enjoy reading this issue, and wish you a wonderful 01471 Radeburg summer and safe travel by rail and bus. Tel.: 035208/ 950-0 Available online in German [email protected] and English at www.dvb.de/bewegt. www.klotsche.de Holger Seifert Head of Rail Vehicles Centre Look out for this shamrock! (survey available in German only) 4 2/2017 WHAT MOVES YOU? 5 Can I use my credit card to buy tickets from the ticket vending machine? What moves you? Yes, our new ticket vending machines offer this feature. Regardless of the What you always wanted to know about DVB. amount due, you can pay either by cash or You ask. card. If you use your girocard/EC card, you We answer questions asked in recent weeks by have to enter your PIN. Your bank determines post, e-mail, telephone or on our Facebook page. We answer. whether you have to enter a PIN when paying Perhaps you have always wanted to know the by credit card. answer to one of the following questions? The following cards are accepted: My tram drove off even though I pressed Visa the door opening button. Why didn’t the Maestro driver open the doors again? VPay Drivers generally try to let passengers girocard/EC card arriving late board the tram. In spite MasterCard of this, the tram may have to depart even I regularly accompany my disabled though you reached and pressed the door neighbour to the doctor. Is it true that opening button. After all of the passengers I can travel with them free of charge? have boarded and the driver has received Yes, one person may accompany the the signal that they can depart in a few disabled passenger free of charge on seconds, they deactivate the doors. While it public transport if the person accompanied only takes a few seconds to open the doors has a valid disabled person’s pass with the again, it could mean missing the traffic lights. “B” mark in it. Please note that you are only So the driver has to decide what will benefit entitled to travel free of charge when travelling most passengers. Waiting and opening the together with the severely disabled person. doors again could mean that the tram will be You need a ticket when travelling alone by delayed and other passengers will miss their tram or bus, and/or for onward or return Which is the best tram door to use when connections. journeys. boarding with a pram? Our low floor trams have dedicated seating and standing areas for prams. They are located at the middle doors. They are marked by corresponding symbols on the door. The standing area at the first door How to contact us is intended primarily for wheelchair-bound passengers, as the folding ramp for non- Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG wheelchair-friendly stops is located there. DVB AG For safe boarding and disembarking, there is [email protected] a dedicated door opening button with a pram Trachenberger Straße 40 or wheelchair symbol. The doors do not close 01129 Dresden automatically when this button is pressed. 6 2/2017 TOP-TOPIC 7 as silent running and energy-efficient design. Wider trams for more In short, we want the trams to offer more comfort for all passengers and be technically passengers state-of-the-art. Where will the trams run? Dresden’s population is expected to increase to almost 600,000 by In the long term, the new trams will run on 2030. We plan to buy wider trams so that there will be room for all our entire network of routes. However, to would-be passengers in future. This is not just a question of capacity, allow the wider trams to pass one another it is also technically necessary. A tram’s average service life is roughly safely in opposite directions, the minimum 30 years. Our first low floor trams are distance between the track centres must be three metres. We have been preparing our now 20 years old. track network for the transition for many years. The minimum clearance required has now been implemented on two thirds of the route Besides additional and more comfortable network. Initially however, the trams will only seats, we also plan to increase the space for run on lines 3 (Coschütz - Wilder Mann) and passengers with prams, bicycles, wheelchairs 7 (Weixdorf - Pennrich), as the expansion on and walking frames, and fit at least five doors these routes will be complete by the time the for rapid boarding and disembarking, and air first tram is delivered. The stops do not need conditioning. For us as a company, it is also to be rebuilt, as the new vehicles are only important that the trams are easy and cost- wider above the platform level. effective to repair, meet all current fire safety, crash and door standards and fulfil various ecological and economic requirements, such Good to know In total, we will buy 30 new trams: When will the new trams start 21 unidirectional vehicles and nine bidirectional running through Dresden? vehicles, approx. 45 metres in length, max. 2.65 metres wide and with an annual We started the procedure for a Europe-wide mileage of up to 100,000 kilometres. After tender this March. However, it will be some What are the requirements for delivery of the first vehicle, we will test the time before the first new trams are seen in the trams? tram for six months. Dresden. The decision as to who will build our Brake adjustment and required brake tests new trams is likely to be made in 2019. All technical data for the new trams is stipulat- Test of all displays and functions Manufacturers generally take two years to ed in what are known as “technical specifica- Door test design and build the prototype. As a result, tions”. For example, the carriage body is to be Handling on the route network we do not expect the first new vehicles to be wider, so that there can be two seats on either Each tram will then accom- Approval of the first vehicle delivered for testing and approval until the side of the passage. That will require a body modate 295 passengers.“ end of 2020. If everything goes according to width of 2.65 metres instead of the previous schedule, the thirty new trams will be on the 2.30 metres. Holger Seifert, rails in late 2023. Head of Rail Vehicles Centre 8 2/2017 TOP-TOPIC 9 Design Question: The large windows and the resulting bright atmosphere were viewed positively. On the other hand, the lighting is considered too What is important to you? bright in the morning. The yellow and black colour scheme inside and out is popular. When drawing up our technical specifica- requirements are cleanliness and safety, Those surveyed therefore considered it tions, which contain our requirements for the information and orientation while on the important that the new trams matched the vehicle manufacturers we asked passengers move. Important features mentioned were existing trams, and did not want the colours how satisfied they are currently, as well as a modern, comfortable, and in particular to change. DVB employees from various areas of the flexible space on board. Passengers with We aim to solve the light problem company and evaluated the rail vehicle mar- restricted mobility want to be able to travel with LED ambient lighting, which ket with its innovations and trends. more independently and without help from allows us to customise the light. Across all age groups, passenger wishes others in the new trams. However, the fundamental design of are very similar. The most important basic the new trams has not been decided yet, and depends on the results of the tender.