The electric locomotives of Bavarian Class EP 2 were in light

passenger train A passenger train is a train used to transport people along a railroad line. These trains may consist of unpowered passenger railroad cars (also known as coaches or carriages) hauled by one or more locomotives, or may be self-propelled; self pr ...

service in Germany for almost 50 years. After their initial classification as EP 2 by the

Royal Bavarian State Railways The Royal Bavarian State Railways (''Königliche Bayerische Staats-Eisenbahnen'' or ''K.Bay.Sts.B.'') was the state railway company for the Kingdom of Bavaria. It was founded in 1844. The organisation grew into the second largest of the German ...

(''Königlich Bayerische Staats-Eisenbahnen''), they were redesignated as E 32s from 1927 to 1968 in the DRG's numbering plan and, later in the

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. In their final years, post-1968, they were given the EDV-compatible classification of 132. Characteristic of the E 32 was its short length and link drive (''Stangenantrieb'').

History

The

Bavarian Group Administration The Bavarian Group Administration or ''Gruppenverwaltung Bayern'' was a largely autonomous railway administration within the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German Imperial Railways) between the two world wars. It was formed on 1 April 1920 from the former Ba ...

of the

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procured 29 E 32 electric locomotives between 1924 and 1926-29 for light passenger train duties. To begin with they still carried their Bavarian classification of EP2 20 006 to 034, before they were allocated to DRG Class E 32. Numbers 01 to 05 were unused, because they had already been allocated to the Bavarian EP 1 (later DRG Class E 62). The E 32s were employed on all the Upper Bavarian lines. In 1932 the top speed on eight of the engines was raised from 75 to 90 km/h after they had been given new gear transmissions. These eight machines were then given the numbers E 32 101 to 108 (E32.1).

Deutsche Bundesbahn

24 engines were taken over by the

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after the

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, five had had to be written off as war losses. In 1968 22 machines were renumbered ito the EDP system as Class 132. Their service ended on 1 August 1972, when the last eight 132s were retired.

Museum

E 32 27 has been preserved. It is housed in the

Bochum-Dahlhausen Railway Museum The Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum-Dahlhausen is a railway museum situated south of the city of Bochum in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded by DGEG, the German Railway History Company in 1977 and is based in a locomotive depot ...

as a non-operational exhibit.

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Description of the Class E 32 (German)
{{Bavarian locomotives EP 2 Standard gauge locomotives of Germany Brown, Boveri & Cie locomotives Maffei locomotives Railway locomotives introduced in 1924 15 kV AC locomotives Passenger locomotives

History

Deutsche Bundesbahn

Museum

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