GMWE No. 5
| GMWE No. 5 | |
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 Locomotive still as Straba No. 1
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| Numbering: | Straba No. 1 GMWE No. 5 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Manufacturer: | Henschel and Son |
| Year of construction (s): | 1892 |
| Retirement: | 1925 |
| Axis formula : | C n2t |
| Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | 7,000 mm |
| Fixed wheelbase: | 1,950 mm |
| Empty mass: | 22.0 t |
| Top speed: | 20 km / h |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 856 mm |
| Control type : | Heusinger |
| Boiler overpressure: | 11.8 bar |
| Water supply: | 2.0 m³ |
| Fuel supply: | 0.9 tons of coal |
The no. 5 of Gera-Meuselwitz-Wuitzer Railway ( GMWE ) was one in 1901 by the Gera tramway acquired steam locomotive.
In order to secure goods traffic on the Gera tram, which opened in 1892, Henschel und Sohn bought a triple-coupled locomotive in addition to a B-coupler. This locomotive was acquired by GMWE in 1901 in order to carry out freight traffic between the Gera (Reuss) station and the Saxon freight station on the tram tracks. The locomotive is a tram locomotive with a fully enclosed engine and an all-round open cabin.
With the electrification of the tram network from 1902, the use of steam locomotives on this route became obsolete. It was therefore adapted to the line operation through modifications. The driver's cab was glazed, the engine cowling was removed, an existing water condenser was dismantled and the furnace was switched from coke to coal. At the end of 1903 the Royal Railway Directorate in Erfurt approved the renovations. The low power of the locomotive usually only allowed shunting. From 1910 to May 1916 the locomotive was lent to the Alsatian Erstein-Oberrehnheim-Ottrotter Railway .
The locomotive was shut down in 1924 and scrapped the following year.
literature
- Dietmar Franz, Reiner Heinrich, Reinhard Taege: The narrow-gauge railway Gera-Pforten – Wuitz-Mumsdorf . transpress, Berlin 1987. ISBN 3-344-00124-8