Prussian G 3

G 3 (Prussia) DR series 53.70–71 LBE G 2 HBE XII / HBE - Boernecke FS 271 PKP Th1 LG P3 LVD Mn SHS No. 40
Prussia. G 3 as 3143 Saarbrücken in Bochum-Dahlhausen
Numbering:	DR 53 7001-7157
Number:	2068
Year of construction (s):	1877-1896
Type :	C n2
Length over buffers:	15,176 mm
Service mass:	38.0 t
Friction mass:	38.0 t
Wheel set mass :	12.66 t
Top speed:	45 km / h
Driving wheel diameter:	1330 mm
Number of cylinders:	2
Cylinder diameter:	450 mm
Piston stroke:	630 mm
Boiler overpressure:	10 bar
Grate area:	1.53 m²
Evaporation heating surface:	124.8 m²
Tender:	3 T 10.5

In 1905 , the Prussian State Railways classified triple-coupled goods locomotives of medium performance in class G 3 . In addition to the standard type of locomotives, there were also 285 G 3 locomotives that did not conform to the standard components , as they were mostly built before the Prussian State Railways were founded.

history

The G 3 of the normal design was the standard freight locomotive of the Prussian State Railways in its time. The first copies were obtained from 1877 for the " Kanonenbahn " called Berlin-Wetzlar Railway. Further deliveries were made to various state and private Prussian railways, the Prussian State Railways and the Royal Prussian Military Railway . Some of the locomotives had external controls, but most of them had internal controls . The Frankfurt a. M. even classified the locomotives with external control as G 2 . A total of about 2068 locomotives of the G 3 standard design were built. The G 3 differed from the Prussian G 4.1 by its lower boiler pressure of 10 bar compared to 12 bar for the G 4.1. From 1886 only the design with the higher boiler pressure was continued. Some locomotives were later given boilers with the higher boiler pressure and were then classified as G 4.1.

The vehicles of type G 3 were equipped with a type pr 3 T 10.5 tender.

In 1923, the Deutsche Reichsbahn saw 523 locomotives in their drawing plan as 53 7001-7522 and 53 8294 (from Saxony) for drawing. In 1925, however, only the 157 locomotives with the numbers 53 7001–7157 were intended for redrawing . The retirement took place until 1930.

Use outside of Prussia

A G 3 came in the division of Berlin-Dresden railway to the Royal Saxon State Railways and got there as generic V the name Tellkoppe .

After the end of the First World War, three of them came to the Italian State Railways (FS) as FS 271 .001–003 as reparations . The Polish State Railways (PKP) took over 123 locomotives, including six similar locomotives that were originally built by Henschel and BMAG (formerly L. Schwartzkopff) for the Warsaw-Vienna Railway and captured by the German troops in 1915 after the Russian withdrawal from Poland had been. In 1926 they were given the series designation Th1 and the official type list of the Polish Ministry of Transport from 1927 still contained 118 units. The Lithuanian state railway Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (LG) took over nine locomotives, which they classified as the P3 series with the numbers 251 and 601 to 608. Locomotives 605 to 608 probably only got their new numbers on paper. The 601 and 602 were soon retired and their numbers were reassigned to the P3 251 (now 601 ^II ) and P4 609 (a G 4.1, from 1925 602 ^II ). Nothing is known about the whereabouts of the other locomotives, but the 601 ^II must have been taken out of service before 1939 because at that time the number was reassigned to a T 13 that was taken over from the PKP . The Latvian State Railways Latvijas Valsts Dzelzsceļi (LVD) took over five units, which they classified like the other standard-gauge C freight locomotives in the Mn series with the numbers 271 to 274 and 288. They were retired before 1940.

The Državne železnice kraljevine Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca (SHS), the state railways of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , took over a G 3 under number 40. In 1933 , the Jugoslovenske državne železnice (JDŽ) introduced a new designation scheme in 1933 she no longer received a number.

During the Second World War , the PKP Th1-84 came into the inventory of the Deutsche Reichsbahn as 53 7006 ^II . In 1945 she returned to Poland and was retired in 1946. Two other long-lived Th1s had been the Th1-86 and Th1-87, which were retired in mid-1937, while the remaining PKP machines had been retired before 1936. According to various sources, the 53 7005 ^II was the Th1-75, but more likely it was the Th3-75 ( Prussian G 4.2 ).

Other railways also put G 3 into service

• Reichseisenbahnen in Alsace-Lorraine : 37 pieces were delivered to Alsace-Lorraine, which were designated as C 21 – C 24 , later as G 3 , for further details see Elsaß-Lothringische G 3 .
• Lübeck-Büchener Eisenbahn : LBE ordered 2 pieces in 1888, which were built by Schwartzkopff in 1889 under the serial numbers 1671 and 1672. They were classified as 33 Oldenburg and 34 Württemberg . In 1903 she was transferred to the genus G 2 arranged and received in 1917 the new numbers 61 and 62. The number 62 was retired in 1922 and the number 61 early taken 1920 out of operation and than then oldest LBE-Lok until 1927 as Auswaschanlage in Luebeck used .
• Halberstadt-Blankenburg Railway : The HBE owned a class G 3 locomotive. It was built in 1888 by Maschinenfabrik Esslingen under the serial number 2312 and was initially given the number XII and the name Boernecke . Because it was not given a new number in 1915, it must have been taken out of service beforehand.

Československé státní dráhy (Czechoslovak State Railways) owned G3 Stettin 1228, Borsig 4337 (1891) in 1924. This got number 314,401. The machine's retirement dates are unknown.

G 3 on the Mecklenburg Friedrich-Franz Railway

Almost twenty years after the procurement of the class G 2 freight locomotives, the vehicle fleet of the Mecklenburg Friedrich-Franz Railway was supplemented by triple-coupled locomotives of the Prussian class G 3 from 1892 . The locomotives procured by Schwartzkopff in 1892 and 1894 were assigned the track numbers 78, 85, 86 and 96 and were classified as class IX . With the takeover of Deutsch-Nordischer Lloyd , the two locomotives 15 and 16 (MFFE numbers 354 and 355) were added. These machines were built by Henschel in 1887. In 1895 two Egestorff locomotives were delivered . With the introduction of the new numbering scheme from 1895 into the number range 350 to 357 and designated as genus G 3 from 1910 .

After the establishment of the Deutsche Reichsbahn , the provisional re-drawing plan from 1923 still contained five locomotives. These should be given the numbers 53 7701 to 53 7705. However, the machines were all retired by 1925.

The locomotives were constructed according to the Prussian type G 4.1 (12 bar boiler pressure version), but had driving wheels with a size of 1350 mm compared to the Prussian version. The vehicles were given a Schlepptender the type 3 10.5 T 3 or T 12th

Preserved locomotives

Only one locomotive of the Prussian type G 3, the “ Cöln 1100 ” and later “Saarbrücken 3143”, was preserved for posterity in the DB Museum in Nuremberg . It had been rebuilt from a crane test weight.

literature

• Horst Troche : The Prussian normal freight locomotives of types G 3 and G 4 (Reichsbahn class 53) . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1992, ISBN 3-88255-873-3 .
• Andreas Wagner: Locomotive Archive Prussia 2 - Freight Locomotives . transpress, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-344-00471-9 .
• Hans-Joachim Kirsche, Hermann Lohr, Georg Thielmann: Lokomotiv-Archiv Mecklenburg / Oldenburg . transpress, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-344-00326-7 .
• Herbert Rauter, Manfred Weisbrod: Prussia Report Volume No. 5 ; Hermann Merker Verlag Fürstenfeldbruck 1992; ISBN 3-922404-22-7
• PM Kalla-Bishop: Italian State Railways Steam Locomotives . Tourret Publishing, Abingdon 1986, ISBN 0-905878-03-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Th1 and Th2. In: locomotives.com.pl. Retrieved June 3, 2016 . 
2. ^ Herman Gijsbert Hesselink, Norbert Tempel: Railways in the Baltic States . Verlag Lok-Report, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-921980-51-8 , p. 71-72 .
3. ^ Herman Gijsbert Hesselink, Norbert Tempel: Railways in the Baltic States . Verlag Lok-Report, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-921980-51-8 , p. 84-85 .
4. ↑ Tadej Brate: The steam locomotives of Yugoslavia . Verlag Josef Otto Slezak, Vienna 1971, ISBN 3-900134-01-4 , p. 46 .
5. ^ Ingo Hütter: Locomotive database. In: Contributions to the history of locomotives and railways. Retrieved June 3, 2016 . 
6. ^ Alfred Gottwaldt : The Lübeck-Büchener Railway. Private railway as a pioneer of new traffic technologies. 2nd edition, alba, Düsseldorf 1999, ISBN 3-87094-235-5 , pp. 46, 110 & 114.
7. ↑ Dirk Endisch: The HBE mountain locomotives: The history of the series 75 ⁶⁶ , 75 ⁶⁷ , 92 ⁶⁸ , 93 ⁶⁷ and 95 ⁶⁶ . 1st edition, Verlag Dirk Endisch, Stendal 2010, ISBN 978-3-936893-57-1 , p. 34.
8. ↑ https://www.vlaky.net/upload/images/reports/002356/rusne.pdf