LDE - Comet to Windsbraut
| LDE - COMET , FAUST / BLITZ , WINDSBRAUT | |
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 The “Blitz” locomotive is ready to go in Althen
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| Number: | 4th |
| Manufacturer: | Rothwell |
| Year of construction (s): | 1835-1838 |
| Retirement: | 1849 |
| Type : | B n2 (B1 after modification) |
| Service mass: | ? / 8.0 t |
| Friction mass: | ? / 8.0 t |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 1,372 / 1,524 mm |
| Cylinder diameter: | 279 mm |
| Piston stroke: | 406 mm |
| Boiler overpressure: | 4 bar |
| Grate area: | ? / 0.79 m² |
| Evaporation heating surface: | ? / 28.5 m² |
| Brake: | none (handbrake on the tender) |
The Comet , Faust , Blitz and Windsbraut were four of the first locomotives of the Leipzig-Dresdner Eisenbahn-Compagnie (LDE). They were B-coupled machines that Rothwell and Company manufactured in Manchester between 1835 and 1838.
history
The COMET was the first locomotive to be delivered to Saxony. It arrived in Leipzig in November 1836, dismantled and packed in 15 boxes . After reassembly, it was tested from March 28, 1837 and then used in railway construction. It was followed by the BLITZ , the WINDSBRAUT and the FAUST , which again roughly corresponded to the COMET in terms of its dimensions . The other two were a bit bigger. (If different, your technical data are given in the table after a "/"!)
The locomotives were technically immature and very maintenance-intensive. The WINDSBRAUT's boiler exploded on May 21, 1846 in front of a train ready to depart from Dresden's train station in Leipzig. The other machines left the company until 1849.
technical features
All locomotives had a cylindrical upright and long boiler, a wooden frame made of oak covered with sheet metal and internal cylinders and controls. As a consequence of the serious railway accident at Versailles in France in 1842, the operation of two-axle locomotives was generally prohibited and the machines were given the axle formula B 1 by adding a rear running axle .
literature
- Dietrich Kutschik, Fritz Näbrich, Günter Meyer , Reiner Preuß : Lokomotiven Sächsischer Eisenbahnen 1 , 2nd edited and expanded edition, transpress, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-344-71009-5