KFNB - Austria and Moravia

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KFNB "AUSTRIA" and "MORAVIA"
KFNB "AUSTRIA"
KFNB "AUSTRIA"
Type : 1A n2
Fixed wheelbase: 1,524 mm
Total wheelbase: 1,524 mm
Service mass: 9.1 t
Driving wheel diameter: 1,524 mm
Impeller diameter front: 1,067 mm
Cylinder diameter: 254 mm
Piston stroke: 406 mm
Boiler overpressure: 3.5 bar
Grate area: 0.54 m²
Radiant heating surface: 3.10 m²
Tubular heating surface: 25.00 m²

The steam locomotives "AUSTRIA" and "MORAVIA" were the first locomotives of the Austrian Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn (KFNB). They were supplied by the Stephenson locomotive factory in Newcastle in 1837 and corresponded to the "Mercury" type with axle formula  1A. The cylinders were arranged under the smoke chamber and drove the cranked second axle . The boiler was covered with wooden strips.

The AUSTRIA led the inaugural train the KFNB from Floridsdorf to German-Wagram . Both machines were soon too weak to cope with the increasing traffic and were transferred to the Stockerau wing railway . After a serious accident on the Paris - Versailles railway on May 8, 1842, the use of two-axle locomotives was banned in Austria . The AUSTRIA and the MORAVIA therefore had to be withdrawn from circulation. The vehicles were parked in 1846, cashed in in 1849 and demolished in 1849 or 1852 after a conversion to the 1A1 wheel arrangement with an additional running axle did not materialize.

Museum object, monument

A model of AUSTRIA is in the Technisches Museum Wien .

In Deutsch-Wagram, the end point of the opening train of the KFNB from 1837, the monument 150 years of the railway was inaugurated in 1987 next to the reception building of the local train station . It was made by the sculptor Leopold Grausam jun. (1946–2010) - as master of the municipal stonemasonry workshop of the City of Vienna - made of sandstone and shows the steam locomotive AUSTRIA .

  • Monument 150 years of the railway in Deutsch-Wagram (created in 1987 by Leopold Grausam jun. )

  • Detail at the railway memorial in Deutsch-Wagram: The steam locomotive "AUSTRIA"

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