Sonderzug Göring, ASIEN.

 
         
 

 
         
 

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  The information below is furnished with the kind and generous assistance of Mr. Jens Nestvogel.  All the material is © Mr Jens Nestvogel (Salonwagen der Deutschen Reichsbahn vor 1945), except the Flak wagons.  
     
  Many  personalities in the German High Command had their personal train, which functioned as a mobile command post, a communications centre and for accommodation.  Göring's ASIEN was one of them, and it was used by him throughout the war including on his fateful journey from Karinhall to Berchtesgaden 21 April 1945.  The train consisted of about 15 wagons, over the years the type and number varied, the below is a composition as known in 1941.  The wagons are shown in the sequence in which they were coupled together.  ASIEN was often accompanied by ROBINSON, the train of the OKL Fü Stab, but the composition of this train is unknown.  
         
     
  Representative locomotive a "BR 41".   Representative locomotive a "BR 50".  
 

 

     
     
  918 001 [P] Bln - SdPl 4i-39  Flak wagon.   105 061 Bln - Sal Masch Pw 4ük-37, utility and service wagon.  
         
     
  105 072 Bln - Sal Pw 4ü-38, luggage and utility wagon.   10 215 Bln - Sal 6ü-40, Göring's personal wagon.  
         
     
  10 205 Bln - Sal 4ü-37, Göring's family.   10 253 Bln - Sal Ber 4ü-38b, communications and situation room wagon.  
         
     
  10 243 Bln - Sal R 4ü-37, dining wagon.   10 233 Bln - Sal L 4ü-38, sleeping wagon.  
         
     
  10 204 Bln- Sal 4ü-36/38.   22073 [P] Bln - Mitropa sleeping wagon (WL 4ü-39).  Model picture.  
         
     
  22077 [P] Bln - Mitropa sleeping wagon (WL 4ü-39).  Model picture.   1218 [P] Bln - Mitropa Dining wagon (WR 4ü-39).  Model picture.  
         
    No drawing available.  
  105 064 Bln- Sal Masch Pw 4ük-37, utility and service wagon.   105 733 Bln - Sal Pw 4ü(F)-37/38.  
         
       
  918 040 [P] Bln - SdPl 4i-39  Flak wagon.      
         
         
     
  Plan of and details from 10 253 Bln - Sal Ber 4ü-38b, communications and situation room wagon.  
         
  These trains were considered of high value and very vulnerable, so in many cases they were parked in existing railway tunnels.  The tunnel was then closed for normal traffic for the duration of the stay of the train, or in at least one case the tunnel was commandeered for the duration of the war for this specific purpose.  Some of these tunnels were located in the vicinity of FüHQs or in the case of Göring near static OKL GefStds. Please see Berchtesgaden and Bunker System .  In Jeleń and Konewka 2 massive "shelters" were built of reinforced concrete.  
         
         
         
 

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