Bavarian A III
| A III (Bavaria) | |
|---|---|
| Numbering: | Names and inventory numbers. |
| Number: | 4th |
| Manufacturer: | Maffei |
| Year of construction (s): | 1851-1852 |
| Retirement: | until 1871 (through renovation) |
| Type : | 1A1 n2 |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | 11,290 mm |
| Service mass: | 21.8 t |
| Top speed: | 50 km / h |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 1,425 mm |
| Impeller diameter front: | 915 mm |
| Rear wheel diameter: | 915 mm |
| Number of cylinders: | 2 |
| Cylinder diameter: | 356 mm |
| Piston stroke: | 559 mm |
| Boiler overpressure: | 6 bar |
| Grate area: | 0.98 m² |
| Evaporation heating surface: | 60.81 m² |
| Tender: | 2 T 4.2 / 5 |
| Water supply: | 4.2 / 5.0 m³ |
The Bavarian A III were locomotives of the Royal Bavarian State Railways .
With these vehicles one experimented again with a short boiler and the Meyer type expansion control. Also, since the additional increase of the heating surface could not be improved by additionally installed pipes, two each were added to B I and C I rebuilt. Otherwise, the design was the same as that of the A II series machines.
They were with a Tender later equipped the type 2 T 4.2, after reconstruction 2 T 5th
literature
- Lothar Spielhoff: Länderbahn steam locomotives. Volume 2. Baden, Bavaria, Pfalz and Württemberg . In: German Railways . Franckh-Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-89350-819-8 , p. 26 .