Dragon (locomotive)
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 Photograph of the dragon , probably 1848
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| Numbering: | 1 ( manufacturer's serial number ) 19 (company number of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Nordbahn-Gesellschaft ) |
| Number: | 1 (3 more identical machines followed) |
| Manufacturer: | Henschel & Sohn , Kassel |
| Year of construction (s): | 1848 |
| Retirement: | 1868 |
| Axis formula : | 2B n3 |
| Gauge : | Standard gauge (1435 mm / 4 ' 8.5 " ) |
| Total wheelbase: | 5160 mm |
| Empty mass: | 22 t |
| Service mass: | 25 t |
| Indexed performance : | 250 hp |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 1520 mm |
| Impeller diameter front: | 800 mm |
| Number of cylinders: | 2 |
| Cylinder diameter: | 300 mm |
| Piston stroke: | 600 mm |
| Boiler overpressure: | 5.8 at |
| Grate area: | 1 m² |
| Tubular heating surface: | 70 m² |
| Drive: | 2 steam operated cylinders |
| Cruising speed 30 km / h | |
The dragon was the first locomotive built by Henschel in Kassel . It was completed in 1848.
The steam engine of the wheel arrangement 2 B with a three-axis, in 1847 built Schlepptender thus received the serial number "1". The English engineer James Brook , whom Carl Anton Henschel had hired three years earlier, played a decisive role in the construction .
The locomotive was christened Drache by the 11-year-old grandson Oscar of the company boss Carl Anton Henschel . Road transport from the headquarters of the Henschel factory to the train station took place on a specially designed two-axle transport vehicle with very wide wheels. About 80 horses are said to have been harnessed and the transport took eight days. It was delivered to the Kurhessische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Nordbahn-Gesellschaft on July 29, 1848 . The price: 15,686 thalers .
On August 18, 1848, the dragon pulled the opening train for the section between Kassel and Grebenstein on the Kassel – Warburg railway line . The locomotive was the first of four identical locomotives. The others were given the names Pfeil , Hassia and Cassel . With an output of around 250 hp , it was superior to other locomotives of the time.
The kite was retired in 1868 after 20 years of operation.
A 1: 1 wooden model of the Drache locomotive is in the Kassel Technology Museum .
literature
- Wolfgang Hermsdorff: Historic turning point at Henschel & Sohn. “Drache” starts production of locomotives - Kasselans marveled at the first machine . In: Looking back No. 549. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine v. July 28, 1973.
- Wolfgang Tölle: The railway in Grebenstein 1848–1875 = Castle and City of Grebenstein, Vol. 4. Grebenstein 1990, p. 158ff.
Web links
- "Dragon" in HNA Regiowiki .
- Video of the 1: 1 wooden model of the dragon locomotive .
- Dragon in the Kassel Wiki .
- Locomotive database of the modelleisenbahn-pocking.de .