Roco 7510064 H0 E- Loc 103 002-2 of the DB
On the occasion of the International Transport Exhibition in Munich in 1965, the Deutsche Bundesbahn regularly traveled for the first time on trains at a speed of up to 200 km/h. In the connection the four locomotives of series E 03 were used both for test drives and in front of particularly fast TEE and F trains. With the delivery of the series locomotives of the 103.1 series, the series locomotives were increasingly migrated to the trial service. From summer 1974 all pre-series 103 were hosted by Bw Hamburg-Eidelstedt. Along with three pairs of express trains to Nuremberg or Munich was then on the agenda for express trains to Lueneburg, Hanover, Hildesheim and Bremen. In the case of long-distance transport, the journey was phased out gradually, with unscheduled high-speed trains clearly occurring. In autumn 1979 the use of series 103.0 ended before control trains and all four locomotives were permanently handed over to the experimental service of the German Federal Railways.Replica of the 103 002 as it was used until September 1976. She then received UIC sockets, grab handles and ergonomic steps on the front. One year later, single-arm pantographs followed before the aprons were finally removed under the headboards in autumn 1980. The model is ideally suited instead of a planned series-103 for the 160 km/h fast express train Hispania.This text is machine translated.