BVG Gisela GI/1E Driver Car

BVG Gisela GI/1E Driver Car

In Berlin’s U-Bahn network, 50 double-engine cars of the GI/1E series operate on small profile lines. They are popularly known as Gisela (German girl's name) by the BVG staff and many train enthusiasts.

They were built from 1988 to 1989 by VEB LEW for the East Berlin Transit Authority (BVB) before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany in 1990. When these vehicles were inherited by the (then western) Berlin transit authority (BVG), The Grunewald workshop was in charge of maintenance of the Giselas.

Unfortunately, many of Gisela’s sisters were malfunctioning after a short period of operation and many were eventually condemned to the communist sector of Korea. On the lighter side however, some of them worked in Athens with the GIII series until 2000.

By the late 1990s, spare parts were harder to find to keep the Giselas running properly so BVG had to take drastic action. Therefore, in 2003, they and Vossloh Electrical Systems decided to rebuild the Giselas to the GI/1E standard, which still operates to this day.

20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, The Giselas are being built again from the original drawings of VEB LEW and the new technologies of Vossloh: this time... the client is you!

Author: Antje

BVG Gisela GI/1E Driver Car
• config.txt 17.91KB
• gi1e.gs 25.26KB
gi1e_alpha_numbers
alphanumber_0.tga 16.04KB
alphanumber_1.tga 16.04KB
alphanumber_2.tga 16.04KB
alphanumber_3.tga 16.04KB
alphanumber_4.tga 16.04KB
alphanumber_5.tga 16.04KB
alphanumber_6.tga 16.04KB
alphanumber_7.tga 16.04KB
alphanumber_8.tga 16.04KB
alphanumber_9.tga 16.04KB
gi1e_body
digit_1.texture.txt 30 bytes
digit_1.tga 12.04KB
digit_2.texture.txt 30 bytes
digit_2.tga 12.04KB
digit_3.texture.txt 30 bytes
digit_3.tga 12.04KB
digit_4.texture.txt 30 bytes
digit_4.tga 12.04KB
digit_6.texture.txt 30 bytes
digit_6.tga 12.04KB
driver_door.im 19.17KB
driver_door.kin 4.37KB
env_glass.bmp 12.05KB
env_glass.texture.txt 32 bytes
env_intmetal.bmp 12.05KB
env_intmetal.texture.txt 35 bytes
env_metal.bmp 12.05KB
env_metal.texture.txt 32 bytes
gi_dest.im 580 bytes
gi_door_a_day.im 14.18KB
gi_door_a_night.im 14.18KB
gi_door_b_day.im 14.09KB
gi_door_b_night.im 14.02KB
gi_door_base.im 46.42KB
gi_door_base.kin 12.00KB
gi_ext_diff.texture.txt 34 bytes
gi_ext_diff.tga 12.00MB
gi_ext_int.texture.txt 34 bytes
gi_int_day.im 112.96KB
gi_int_night.im 112.97KB
gi_main.im 417.94KB
normal.texture.txt 75 bytes
normal.tga 12.00MB
wiper.im 10.11KB
wiper.kin 5.32KB
wiper.texture.txt 28 bytes
wiper.tga 48.04KB
zs_leer.texture.txt 30 bytes
zs_leer.tga 48.04KB
gi1e_shadow
gi_shadow.texture.txt 32 bytes
gi_shadow.tga 48.04KB
shadowmesh.im 11.62KB
• giclose.wav 196.93KB
• gistart.wav 93.33KB
• ubahnwagen.gs 16.53KB