After the Deutsche Reichsbahn initially procured various prototype types of railcar trailers for passenger traffic on branch lines, the development of standard railcar trailers began in 1934. As part of this procurement program, the sidecar was delivered in 1937 by the Talbot wagon factory in Aachen with the factory number 80 247. After the end of the war, it remained in the fleet of the Deutsche Bundesbahn, which assigned it to the Bww Nürnberg and used it on branch lines in the Nuremberg area. After leaving the DB equipment park on 13.04.1960, it was sold to the Lam – Kötzing local railway in the Bavarian Forest and was given the new running number VB 01. After the merger of the Lam – Kötzing local railway with the Regentalbahn on 01.01.1973, it initially continued to run with the running number VB 01 on the Regentalbahn. In 1977 it was given the new running number VB 31.After the wagon expired on 31.03.1981, the Delmenhorst – Harpstedter Eisenbahnfreunde e.V. (DHEF) acquired the vehicle and used it in museum railway traffic until 1995. At the end of 2008, the company was sold to Eisenbahn – Tradition e.V. and transferred to Lengerich. In contrast to our other passenger car fleet, we do not intend to refurbish the sidecar as a DB vehicle, but in the style of the non-federally owned railways (NE). It is therefore to be given the typical red-beige paint job of the NE railways of the 1950s.

We want to present the long-standing use of the Teutoburg Forest Railway (TWE). It is planned to start the restoration in the next few years. The interior views of an identical sidecar were made available to us by the friendly "Dampfeisenbahn Fränkische Schweiz" (DFS) in Ebermannstadt and are intended to reflect the planned condition after the refurbishment.