DIOC A5 and A6

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DIOC A5 and A6 / NSB Type 55a
DIOC A6 (factory photo, 1905)
DIOC A6 (factory photo, 1905)
Numbering: Dunderlandsbanen (DIOC):
A5, A6
Norges Statsbaner (NSB): 55a 494, 495
Number: 2
Manufacturer: Andrew Barclay Sons & Co .: A5, A6
Year of construction (s): 1905
Retirement: last locomotive: No. 494 on May 8, 1951
Type : 2'C n2
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Length over buffers: 10,137 mm
Empty mass: 50.0 t
Service mass: 60.0 t
Friction mass: 45.6 t
Top speed: 40/20 km / h
Driving wheel diameter: 1270 mm
Number of cylinders: 2
Cylinder diameter: 457 mm
Piston stroke: 660 mm

The Norwegian steam locomotive series DIOC A5 and A6 was built in 1905 by Andrew Barclay Sons & Co. in Kilmarnock , Scotland with the serial numbers 1032 and 1033 for the Dunderland Iron Ore Company (DIOC) and the Dunderlandsbanen it operates .

When the Dunderlandsbane was officially taken over by the Norges Statsbaner (NSB), the state railway company in Norway, on June 1, 1947 , the locomotives were included in their stock.

Use at Dunderlandsbanen

The DIOC operated an island network from its ore mines in the Rana area to the port of Gullsmedvik near Mo i Rana as early as 1902 . With the construction of the Nordlandsbane in 1942, the Dunderlandsbane was connected to the NSB network. The Dunderlandsbane railway line was integrated into the Nordlandsbane.

Used by Norges Statsbaner

The takeover of the Dunderlandsbane by NSB took place officially on June 1, 1947. On April 27, 1948, the locomotives of the Dunderlandsbane were integrated into the NSB's numbering plan. The two locomotives DIOC A5 and A6 were assigned to the NSB Type 55a series . Locomotive 55a 494 (the original DIOC A5 ) was the last of the series to be decommissioned and scrapped on May 8, 1951.

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