Podnik

Federation of transport cooperatives of the Republic of Fluid

Out of the register

A vehicle stays in the catalogue for as long as some factory will make its parts. For these twelve, no factory remained. The reason is recorded for each of them, and so is what survives.

The rule

A model leaves the register when no factory will make its parts. While a factory will make a frame, a bearing or a controller, the model stays in the catalogue however old it is. The T3 is fifty-eight years old and is in the catalogue. What ends a model is the day the last factory refuses the work, usually because the drawings are incomplete, the material is no longer made, or the frame itself has rusted past repair.

The decision is published with its reasons. The federation assembly takes it, the operating cooperatives and the user assemblies are heard first, and the positions taken against it are recorded. Any person may ask why a model was retired and receive a reasoned answer.

Withdrawal from service is distinct from scrapping. Vehicles are taken apart for the parts that keep others running, the factory keeps one complete example of each model it built, and what remains goes back to the material accounts. Ferry hulls go to the yard at Lutoliluri.

Withdrawn

Ordered by mode. Years in service counts from the first vehicle in service to the last one out.

  • FER T1

    Ferrista Factory · 1951 to 1994

    Wooden body frames on a steel floor frame. By the last years the frames were rotting faster than they could be replaced, and no factory would take on the woodwork.

    Entered service
    1951
    Left service
    1994
    Years in service
    43
    Survivors
    Two cars at the Sederna collection. One factory yard locomotive at Ferrista.

  • CKD T1

    ČKD Tatra, Ostrava · 1958 to 1996

    The first delivery of the Czechoslovak trade. Retired when the control gear could no longer be made: the switch parts were no longer produced and the T3 rebuild programme needed the depot capacity.

    Entered service
    1958
    Left service
    1996
    Years in service
    38
    Survivors
    One car preserved at Ferrista, in the 1958 colours.

  • HAR GT4

    Harnack Waggonbau · 1957 to 1989

    Bought second hand before the Republic. Taken out of service when the floor frames were found cracked at the cross beam on eleven of nineteen cars, with no drawing showing the original weld detail.

    Entered service
    1957
    Left service
    1989
    Years in service
    32
    Survivors
    None. The last body shell served as a mess room at Calmena until 2003.

  • ZIU B5

    ZiU, Engels · 1971 to 1993

    Trolleybus built before the ZiU-9. Withdrawn on account of corrosion. The sills had no protection from the outset and the salt on the northern coast roads corroded them within twenty years.

    Entered service
    1971
    Left service
    1993
    Years in service
    22
    Survivors
    One vehicle at the Sederna collection, restored at Tavrino in 2011.

  • KAR SM11

    Karosa, Vysoké Mýto · 1968 to 1998

    City bus of the trade years. Retired when the engine mounting frames failed inspection across the class and the replacement panel would have needed new moulds for a fleet of forty.

    Entered service
    1968
    Left service
    1998
    Years in service
    30
    Survivors
    One vehicle, running, held by a Lindoma association.

  • TAV B7

    Tavrino Motor Factory · 1988 to 2016

    Taken out of service on its own schedule at the end of the design life. The last diesel Tavrino built before the B8, and the parts went into keeping the B8 fleet going.

    Entered service
    1988
    Left service
    2016
    Years in service
    28
    Survivors
    One vehicle at the Sederna collection. Three converted to depot tow vehicles.

  • KRN C1

    Kernholt Carrosserie · 1971 to 2004

    Outside purchase. Support ended in 1988 and the fleet ran another sixteen years on second-hand parts. All frames ceased.

    Entered service
    1971
    Left service
    2004
    Years in service
    33
    Survivors
    None complete. The Ombraqui depot keeps a driver's cab section for training.

  • KAR 706 RTO

    Karosa, Vysoké Mýto · 1962 to 1987

    Coach of the early trade. Retired when the brake system could no longer be brought up to the standard the test station at Vestrano required, and the conversion cost more than the vehicle was worth in materials.

    Entered service
    1962
    Left service
    1987
    Years in service
    25
    Survivors
    One vehicle at the Sederna collection.

  • SED R1

    Sederna Carriage Factory · 1948 to 2002

    Carriage of the post-war rebuilding, pulled by a locomotive. Ran fifty-four years. Taken out of service when the steel of the floor frame fell below the thickness the railway would accept, on a fleet-wide ultrasonic test.

    Entered service
    1948
    Left service
    2002
    Years in service
    54
    Survivors
    Four carriages, running, on the Sederna heritage set. One as a factory rest room.

  • VET R2

    Vetruna Factory, Iosmein · 1974 to 2009

    Iosmein electric unit of the first exchange. Retired on traction: the motors were rewound three times and the fourth would have needed a core nobody makes.

    Entered service
    1974
    Left service
    2009
    Years in service
    35
    Survivors
    One two-car set at the Sederna collection, static.

  • COR M0

    Cortius Electric · 1974 to 1996

    The five prototype cars built for the Lindoma tunnels before the M1 order. Never more than a trial fleet, and taken out of service once the M2 arrived and the platform edges were rebuilt.

    Entered service
    1974
    Left service
    1996
    Years in service
    22
    Survivors
    Two cars underground at Kesar depot, used for evacuation training.

  • LUT F1

    Lutoliluri Yard · 1962 to 2004

    The first Sluland ferry built in the Republic. Taken out of service because of the hull after forty-two years.

    Entered service
    1962
    Left service
    2004
    Years in service
    42
    Survivors
    Scrapped at Lutoliluri. The wheelhouse stands at the quay as a shelter.

Approaching

These are in the catalogue today and will leave it on the dates shown, subject to the assembly.

  • Support ended 2011

    KRN C2

    Seventy-five coaches in Ombraqui, held together by exchange between depots. The federation has published the frame drawings it holds so that a factoryshop willing to make the sections may. No workshop has yet offered.

  • Leaves service from 2029

    VET B4

    325 Iosmein buses at the end of the design life. Vetruna offered a licence for the pressed body panels in 2024 and the assembly declined it, since the B12 is easier to maintain.

  • Leaves service from 2030

    KAR B731

    140 buses in the reserve fleets. Supported at Tavrino since 2004. The floor panels are starting to rust through.

  • Last cars out 2031

    COR M1

    The original Lindoma metro stock, 96 cars, at fifty-two years. Cortius will hold parts to the last day.