Silberling
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For the wine grape that is also known as Silberling, see Chasselas.
Silberling is the colloquial name for the n-coaches of the Deutsche Bundesbahn, a type of regional passenger coach of which more than 5,000 units were built from 1958 to 1981. Nearly all of the coaches have undergone extensive modernisation – these modernised units are widely known as Mintling, Grünling ("greenling") or Rotling ("redling") after their exterior colours. The term Buntling ("colourfulling") is used to denote refurbished Silberling coaches in general.
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Constructed | Prototypes from 1958, 1959–1980 |
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Car length | 26,400 mm (86 ft 7+1⁄4 in) over buffers |
Width | 2,825 mm (9 ft 3+1⁄4 in) |
Height | 4,050 mm (13 ft 3+1⁄2 in) |
Wheel diameter | 950 mm (3 ft 1+3⁄8 in) |
Maximum speed | 120 or 140 km/h (75 or 87 mph) (depending on design) |
Weight | 31–40 t (31–39 long tons; 34–44 short tons) |
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Braking system(s) | shoe brakes; later also disc brakes |
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Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) |
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