Original page created on 04/10/2018; updated on 23/05/2021.
Piko 59625
German Federal Railways (Deutsche Bundesbahn) 1st class / restaurant coach ARmh216 in blue and red "Kakadu" livery.
UIC number | Revision date |
51 80 84-43 007-4 | 4.7.73 |
Home station : Frankfurt (M) |
169 g; 133 g after ballast reduction (NEM: 121 to 158 g)
The bogie clips are a little hard, and their plastic is relatively brittle. The wheels are not burnished.
The weight is too high.
Interior detailed (restaurant tables) but uniformly green.
The ARmh216 are 1st class / restaurant coaches built in 1954-55 by Wegmann and O & K. They were 2nd class (BR4ümg-54) at the beginning, they become 1st class in 1956 when the 3rd class was abolished (AR4ümg-54), then called ARümh216 in 1966 and finally ARmh216 in 1975.
According to the sources, their number ranges from 8 to 16, UIC numbers 51 80 84-43 001 to 84-43 016. They include three compartments of 6 seats, a dining room with 30 seats and a kitchen.
Mass: 39.5 t. Speed limit: 140 km/h. Minden-Deutz bogies.
The livery was first uniformly blue, then blue (for the compartments) and red (for the restaurant), and finally ocean blue/beige from 1974.
Photo Rolf Köstner on drehscheibe-online.de.
Dimension | Actual | 1:87 | Model |
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Overall length | 26 400 | 303.4 | 303.0 |
Chassis length | 25 100 | 288.5 | 289.0 |
Body length | 26 100 | 300.0 | 300.0 |
Width | 2 825 | 32.5 | 32.8 |
Height | 4 050 | 46.6 | 46.1 1 |
Pivot distance | 19 000 | 218.4 | 219.0 |
Bogie wheelbase (MD) | 2 500 | 28.7 | 28.7 |
Wheel diameter | 1 000 | 11.5 | 11.5 |
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Global appearance very satisfactory, with Piko’s usual simplifications: underneath not detailed (little annoying), moulded handrails, no electric heating cables. The steps, not mounted, are easy to assemble, and they hold without glue. The windows are perfectly fitted, the markings are clear.