The last railcar of class 772 was retired from regular service in Stendal in January 2004. 22 vehicles were sold to Cuba and Romania, others to Spain and Brazil. After new railcars became available, classes 771/772 were withdrawn from service in 2000. After repainting, the name Pfefferminzbonbon ('peppermint candy') could be heard.Īfter Deutsche Reichsbahn and Deutsche Bundesbahn pooled their rolling stock in 1992, accompanied by a renumbering of the DR fleet, many members of this class were rebuilt and repainted into the mint green - white scheme of the regional trains. The series had multiple nicknames, among them Ferkeltaxe ('piglet taxi') due to it being commonly used on rural lines, or Blutblase ('bloody blister') because of their original dark red paint. The trailers were numbered as VB 2.08, the driving trailers as VS 2.07. The original classification as VT 2.09 refers to the general type of vehicle (VT = Verbrennungstriebwagen = railcar with internal combustion engine), the power output (approximately 1/100 of the engine power, measured in PS) and the top speed (approximately 1/10 of the value in km/h). Further vehicles were built by Waggonbau Görlitz. In the same year, six more railcars with trailers were built, and in 1963 sixteen more railcars and for the first time some driving trailers, too. One of them had a Büssing engine, the other one from Dieselmotorenwerk Berlin-Johannisthal.

In order to replace pre-war railcars and steam-hauled passenger trains on branch lines, Waggonbau Bautzen started designing a new series of light railcars started in 1955 and completed the first two prototypes in 1959. In 1970 they were renumbered into classes 171/172, and in 1992 into classes 771/772. They were designed and built by Waggonbau Bautzen. Pneumatic disk-brakes (all), magnetic track brake (powered cars only)ġ,435 mm ( 4 ft 8 + 1⁄ 2 in) standard gaugeĭR class VT 2.09 were light railcars of Deutsche Reichsbahn in the GDR. Railcar VT 2.09 and driving trailer VS 2.09 in restored original paint schemeġ5.6 t (15.4 long tons 17.2 short tons).

Vt timetable of classes