LVF - Galileo
| LVF - Galilei / LVStB - Galilei | |
|---|---|
| Number: | 1 |
| Manufacturer: | WRB |
| Year of construction (s): | 1842 |
| Type : | 1A1 n2 |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Total wheelbase: | 3,358 mm |
| Service mass: | 14.3 t |
| Friction mass: | 6.2 t |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 1,686 mm |
| Control type : | Meyer |
| Number of cylinders: | 2 |
| Cylinder diameter: | 356 mm |
| Piston stroke: | 454 mm |
| Boiler overpressure: | 4.65 atm |
| Heating pipe length: | 2,792 mm |
| Evaporation heating surface: | 38.9 m² |
The LVF - Galilei was a steam locomotive of the Lombard-Venetian Ferdinand Railway (LVF).
The machine was built by the Vienna-Raaber Bahn locomotive factory in 1842. John Haswell no longer used the hemispherical firebox with this locomotive, as with the two SCHOTTWIEN and THALHOF locomotives of the Vienna-Raaber Bahn (WRB) , which was prone to leaks and which he probably not unjustly partly to blame for the explosions of several boilers gave. He also used the expansion control (Meyer system) for the first time. However, his idea of attaching the inner frame to the standing boiler did not prove successful, as this led to damage to the frame due to the lack of mass compensation on the wheels.
When the LVF was nationalized in 1852, it came under the same name to the Lombard-Venetian State Railways (LVStB).
literature
- Herbert Dietrich: The southern railway and its predecessors , Bohmann Verlag, Vienna, 1994, ISBN 3-7002-0871-5
- Hilscher: The locomotives of the former Austrian state railways in the 40s and 50s of the last century III , The Locomotive, 1922, No. 9