DR series 62
| DR series 62 | |
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 62 015 on the Dresden Altstadt turntable
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| Numbering: | 62 001-015 |
| Number: | 15th |
| Manufacturer: | Henschel |
| Year of construction (s): | 1928-1932 |
| Retirement: | 1973 |
| Type : | 2'C2 'h2t |
| Genre : | Pt 37.20 |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | 17,140 mm |
| Smallest bef. Radius: | 180 m |
| Empty mass: | 97.9 t |
| Service mass: | 123.6 t |
| Friction mass: | 60.8 t |
| Wheel set mass : | 20.3 t |
| Top speed: | forward + backward 100 km / h |
| Indexed performance : | 1236 kW / 1680 PSi |
| Starting tractive effort: | ~ 150 kN |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 1750 mm |
| Impeller diameter front: | 850 mm |
| Rear wheel diameter: | 850 mm |
| Control type : | external Heusinger control with Kuhn loop |
| Number of cylinders: | 2 |
| Cylinder diameter: | 600 mm |
| Piston stroke: | 660 mm |
| Boiler overpressure: | 14 bar |
| Number of heating pipes: | 155 |
| Number of smoke tubes: | 41 |
| Heating pipe length: | 4700 |
| Grate area: | 3.55 m² |
| Radiant heating surface: | 15 m² |
| Tubular heating surface: | 180.95 m² |
| Superheater area : | 72.50 m² |
| Evaporation heating surface: | 195.95 m² |
| Water supply: | 14 m³ |
| Fuel supply: | 4.3 tons of coal |
| Locomotive brake: | automatic single-chamber compressed air brake type Knorr, coupling wheels on one side from the front, running wheels on one side braked from the inside + throw lever brake |
| Train heating: | steam |
The locomotives of the series 62 were unit - Passenger tank locomotives of the Deutsche Reichsbahn .
history
The class 62 was developed and delivered by the Henschel company for the Reichsbahn in the twenties. The machines were two-cylinder superheated steam locomotives. A total of 15 copies were made. The machines 62 001 and 62 002 were in use from 1928 to 1932 at the Lennep depot between Düsseldorf, Wuppertal, Remscheid and Solingen. Although all of the locomotives were built in 1928, the Deutsche Reichsbahn did not accept 62 003-015 until 1932. The reasons for this were the low demand from the Reichsbahn and the too high price for the locomotives. Operational railway depots in the thirties were the Düsseldorf depot , Saßnitz on Rügen and Meiningen . Especially on the Werra Railway from Eisenach to Lichtenfels , the locomotives were able to show their sprinting speed. After the Second World War, eight copies remained with the Deutsche Reichsbahn and seven with the Deutsche Bundesbahn .
Used by the Deutsche Reichsbahn
Until 1967, the vehicles in the GDR were distributed across various depots, including Meiningen, Berlin Ostbahnhof and Rostock , where they hauled double-decker push-pull trains to and from Warnemünde from 1965 to 1967 . The machines also had a short stay at the Wittenberge depot and the Berlin-Lichtenberg depot. 62 007 was stationed in Schwerin from April 8 to May 6, 1967, but was only parked cold there. In 1968 they were brought together in the Frankfurt (Oder) depot. There the locomotives hauled trains on the Frankfurt (Oder) –Erkner route. At the beginning of 1970 only 62 007, 62 014 and 62 015 were still in use at the Wriezen deployment site, where they hauled trains to Berlin-Lichtenberg. 62 007 was taken out of service there in 1972 as the last regularly used locomotive, but was still used as a heating locomotive until 1973. The only remaining locomotive 62 015 is now owned by the DB - Transport Museum Nuremberg and parked in the railway museum in Dresden-Altstadt . Until 1997, the locomotive was used before special trains. In 1997 and 1998 it operated on a few weekends on the Remagen – Kreuzberg route as the DB AG tourist route.
Used by the Deutsche Bundesbahn
The Deutsche Bundesbahn had its vehicles at home in Dortmund , Düsseldorf, Essen and Krefeld after they went to Wuppertal immediately after the Second World War . The class 62 was decommissioned by the Deutsche Bundesbahn by 1956. The last locomotive, 62 003, was scrapped in Mülheim an der Ruhr in 1970 after it had served as a training model in the train driver's school in Troisdorf from 1956 to 1966 .
One of the locomotives seen in the 1983 film Octopussy and numbered 62 015 is not the museum locomotive mentioned above, but a Danish class S (II) locomotive .
technical features
Most of the components were designed to be identical to the class 20 2'C locomotive with a tender that was ultimately not built.
literature
- Pictures from the history of the 62 series . In: Alfred B. Gottwaldt (ed.): Lok magazine . No. 116 . Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, W. Keller & Co. , 1982, ISSN 0458-1822 , p. 362-368 .
- Dirk Endisch: Series 62 . Transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 2002. ISBN 3-613-71199-0
- Thomas Frister; Hansjürgen Wenzel (Ed.): Locomotive portrait series 62 Railway picture archive - Volume 41. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88255-380-2
- Oliver Strüber: The extraordinary. Series 62 in portrait . In: Rudolf Heym (Ed.): Lok-Magazin . No. 1/2020 . GeraMond Verlag , 2019, ISSN 0458-1822 , p. 92-103 .
