BHStB IIIc5

IIIc5 was the type designation for rack-and-pinion locomotives with three coupling axles and a weight of more than 35 tons for the Bosnian-Herzegovinian State Railways (BHStB) and their successors, the Železnice Kraljevine Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca (SHS, Railways of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes). The locomotives in Bosnian gauge came from the Wiener Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf , which owned the license for the Abt rack railway system for the territory of the then Austro-Hungarian monarchy .

Numbers 701-721

Numbers 701-721 were support tender locomotives , of which the Bosnian-Herzegovinian State Railways (BHLB) and the Railways of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (SHS) put a further 17 machines into service. In the Yugoslav Railways (JDŽ, later JŽ) the series was designated as the 97 series.

Numbers 751-752

The IIIc5 751 and 752 were procured in 1906 Mallet - Tender locomotives . Because the two machines did not prove themselves, a further 21 replicas of the proven predecessor IIIc5 701ff were made between 1908 and 1919. procured. In the JDŽ, the two mallets were called the 196 series.

literature

Werner Schiendl , Franz Gemeinböck: The railways in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1918–2016 . Edition Bahn im Film, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-9503096-7-6 . Cape. 4 The Bosnian and Serbian narrow-gauge locomotives before 1918, pp. 57–77