LEB G 3/3 2 and 5
| LEB G 3/3 2 and 5 | |
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 LEB G 3/3 Bercher in Blonay station 2015
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| Numbering: | 2 and 5 |
| Number: | 2 |
| Manufacturer: | EMBG |
| Year of construction (s): | 1888 serial number unknown and 1890 serial number 4172 |
| Retirement: | No. 2: 1920, canceled in 1929 |
| Axis formula : | C. |
| Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | 6 830 mm |
| Total wheelbase: | 1,800 |
| Empty mass: | 15.7 t |
| Service mass: | 20.4 t |
| Friction mass: | 20.4 t |
| Top speed: | 25 km / h |
| Hourly output : | 150 hp |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 810 mm |
| Number of cylinders: | 2 |
| Cylinder diameter: | 270 mm |
| Piston stroke: | 370 mm |
| Boiler overpressure: | 12 kg / cm² |
| Grate area: | 0.6 m² |
| Tubular heating surface: | 38.2 m² |
| Water supply: | 2.2 m³ |
| Fuel supply: | Coal 0.8 t |
In 1888 and 1890 the Lausanne-Échallens-Bercher-Bahn (LEB) put two identical meter-gauge tank locomotives of the type G 3/3 with the operating numbers 2 and 5 into service. One of the two locomotives, No. 5 Bercher , has been preserved on the Blonay – Chamby (BC) museum railway .
The two steam locomotives built by the Elsässische Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft (EMBG) in Grafenstaden have a service weight of 20.4 t , are 6.83 m long and have a top speed of 25 km / h . They are able to pull a trailer load of 40 to 45 t on an incline of 30 ‰.
history
As part of the opening of the railway line from Échallens to Bercher and the opening of the Nestlé milk powder factory in Bercher, the vehicle fleet, which previously consisted exclusively of small two-axle G 2/2 tank locomotives, was supplemented by the three-axle G 3/3 2 Échallens delivered in 1888 . It replaced the G 2/2 with the same number. A short time later a second identical locomotive, the G 3/3 5 Bercher, was ordered and put into operation in 1890. The two new three-axle tank locomotives now carried the main load of the traffic until the two identical tank locomotives G 3/3 6 Gros-de-Vaud and 7 Talent were delivered by the Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik (SLM) in Winterthur in 1903 and 1905 .
In 1920 and 1921 the Yverdon – Sainte-Croix-Bahn (YSteC) could take over the G 2x2 / 2 1 to 3 mallet locomotives, which were also built in 1893 by the Elsässische Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Grafenstaden . These much more powerful locomotives led to the two locomotives being taken out of service. The G 3/3 2 was drawn in 1920 and, since no buyer could be found, canceled in 1929.
An illustrious life began for the G 3/3 5 in 1934 when it was sold to Energie de l'Ouest Suisse (EOS), a Swiss electricity producer, as a works locomotive. The company Energie de l'Ouest Suisse used the former locomotive No. 5 for construction work in connection with the construction of the Dixence dam from 1934 and took the locomotive out of operation again in 1935.
In 1941 the No. 5 was sold to the Hilti construction company, which later became Hilti & Jehle in Vorarlberg, Austria. In 1967 they were donated and installed, like many other steam locomotives at that time, on a children's playground in the town of Feldkirch .
Areas of application
After delivery in 1888 and 1890, the two steam locomotives ran passenger and freight trains between Lausanne-Chauderon , Échallens and Bercher .
Coloring
As of 2015, the steam locomotive is painted black. The driver's cab and the water tank are in the green typical of early Swiss locomotives, in the case of the G 3/3 5 Bercher a dark green.
Whereabouts
At the end of the 1960s as an exhibit in a children's playground , the locomotive caught the attention of some employees of the Blonay – Chamby (BC) museum railway , who managed to acquire this locomotive in 1973 in exchange for another locomotive.
After a refurbishment, the locomotive was in operation from 1985 to 2005. Then it had to be turned off. Since 2013, the locomotive has been refurbished a second time by the museum railroaders. The second oldest narrow-gauge steam locomotive in Switzerland, the oldest is the G 3/4 1 Rhätia of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), has been in operation again since the spring of 2015 after the overhaul work was completed.
literature
- Gérald Hadorn, Jean-Louis Rochaix: Voies étroites de la campagne vaudoise. Bureau vaudois d'adresses (BVA), Lausanne 1986, ISBN 2-88125-004-1 .
- Michel Dehanne, Michel Grandguillaume, Gérald Hadorn, Sébastien Jarne, Anette Rochaix, Jean-Louis Rochaix: Chemins de fer privés vaudois 1873-2000. La Raillère, Belmont 2000, ISBN 2-88125-011-8 .
- Jean-Louis Rochaix, Sébastien Jarne, Gérald Hadorn, Michel Grandguillaume, Michel Dehanne and Anette Rochaix: Chemins de fer privés vaudois 2000–2009, 10 ans de modernization. La Raillère, Belmont 2009, ISBN 978-2-88125-012-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chemin de fer Lausanne-Échallens-Bercher , in French, accessed on May 20, 2015
- ↑ Digitales Eisenbahn Fotoarchiv (DEF), LEB G 3/3 5 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 20, 2015
- ↑ Jean-François Andrist: The G 3/3 5 of the LEB is 125 years old in: Railway Amateur (magazine) No. 5, 2015, p. 227
