The German State Railway Wagon Association (german: Deutscher Staatsbahnwagenverband) or DWV was an association of the German state railways ''

Länderbahnen The ''Länderbahnen'' (singular: ''Länderbahn'') were the various state railways of the German Confederation and the German Empire in the period from about 1840 to 1920, when they were merged into the Deutsche Reichsbahn after the First World War ...

'' founded in 1909. The purpose of the association was to guarantee the unrestricted exchange of

goods wagons Goods wagons or freight wagons (North America: freight cars), also known as goods carriages, goods trucks, freight carriages or freight trucks, are unpowered railway vehicles that are used for the transportation of cargo. A variety of wagon type ...

between the member railway administrations. The German State Railway Wagon Association could, unlike the ''Prussian State Railway Wagon Association'', stipulate standard wagon designs for the whole of Germany. It developed a total of eleven different wagon types, the ''

Verbandsbauart The German term ''Verbandsbauart'' describes both a type of goods wagon as well as a type of tram. In order to standardise the goods wagons classes of the various German state railways (''Länderbahnen''), the German State Railway Wagon Associat ...

'' (literally: association type) or ''DWV'' wagons. In addition to entire goods wagons, types of

bogie A bogie ( ) (in some senses called a truck in North American English) is a chassis or framework that carries a wheelset, attached to a vehicle—a modular subassembly of wheels and axles. Bogies take various forms in various modes of transp ...

were also specified.

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With the founding of the

Deutsche Reichsbahn The ''Deutsche Reichsbahn'', also known as the German National Railway, the German State Railway, German Reich Railway, and the German Imperial Railway, was the German national railway system created after the end of World War I from the regiona ...

on 1 April 1920 the DWV closed its operations. Preußische und Hessische Eisenbahndirektion in Mainz (publ.): ''Amtsblatt der Preußischen und Hessischen Eisenbahndirektion in Mainz'' dated 26 June 1920, No. 39. Bekanntmachung No. 577, p. 329.

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