Ouest 230 TE 321 to E 332
| Ouest 230 TE 321 to E 332 | |
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 E 327 at the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme , 2013
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| Numbering: | E 321 to E 332 |
| Number: | 12 |
| Manufacturer: |
Franco-Belge: E 321 to E 325 Fives-Lille : E 326 to E 332 |
| Year of construction (s): | 1904 and 1909 |
| Type : | 2'C-n2t |
| Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | 9450 mm |
| Height: | 3600 mm |
| Width: | 2690 mm |
| Empty mass: | 33.5 t |
| Service mass: | 44.5 t |
| Top speed: | 55 km / h |
| Coupling wheel diameter: | 1230 mm |
| Impeller diameter front: | 730 mm |
| Number of cylinders: | 2 |
| Cylinder diameter: | 400 mm |
| Piston stroke: | 460 mm |
| Boiler overpressure: | 12 |
The Ouest 230 TE 321 to E 332 of the Réseau Breton (RB) are meter-gauge tank locomotives with a 2'C (4-6-0T) wheel arrangement.
The machines, which are capable of towing a trailer load of 230 tons on the plain at a speed of 55 kilometers per hour, were in use on the Réseau Breton route network after their delivery in 1904 and 1909. In scheduled service they were, until 1967 when their original routes on standard gauge umgespurt or were converted to bus operation.
history
Tank locomotives with a 1'C (2-6-0T) wheel arrangement were originally used on the Réseau Breton route network. These were later supplemented by mallet locomotives with the wheel arrangement (C) C (0-6-6-0T). With the 2'C tank locomotives it was intended to combine the speed of the 1'C tank locomotives with the high performance of the mallet locomotives in order to be able to use them in fast passenger traffic.
Although the locomotives were originally intended for use on the lines from Loudéac to La Brohinière and from Carhaix to Châteaulin , they were used on the entire network.
The first five locomotives, the E 321 to E 325, were manufactured in 1904 by Société Franco-Belge in Raismes with the serial numbers 1443 to 1447.
Since the conception of the tank locomotives was successful, seven other identically constructed locomotives, the E 326 to E 332, were produced in 1909 by the Compagnie de Fives-Lille pour constructions mécaniques et entreprises with the serial numbers 3581 to 3587.
In 2011 two locomotives from the Fives-Lille construction lot were still operational.
The E 327 was originally received by the Chemin de Fer du Vivarais . However, it was not suitable for the corresponding route network that only allows an axle load of eight tons. Today the tank locomotive, which was transferred to the French Chemins de fer de Provence in 1997, belongs to the Fédération de Amis des Chemins de Fer Secondaires and is stationed in Annot . There it is used on the Nice – Digne railway line in front of the Train des Pignes.
The E 332 was taken over in 1968 by the Swiss museum railway Blonay – Chamby together with the ABCFZ 4 15 and AB 4 90 passenger cars and the Dm 2/2 3 draisine , which it also initially used. Since it was less suitable for the Blonay – Chamby railway line, which was up to 50 per thousand steep , it was only exhibited later and sold in 2003 to the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme . She refurbished it and has been using it again in museum railway operations since 2009.
literature
- Peter Willen: Locomotives and railcars of the Swiss railways . 2nd revised edition. tape 2 : Private railways in Western Switzerland and Valais. Orell Füssli Verlag, Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-280-01474-3 .
- José Banaudo, Alex Rieben: à la decouverte du Chemin de fer-Musée Blonay – Chamby . Les Edition du Cabri, Breil-sur-Roya 1992, ISBN 2-903310-98-X .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Grieder: Great moments of the steam locomotive. Of steam horses, steam giants and steam veterans . Orell Füssli Verlag, Zurich 1975, ISBN 3-280-00811-5 , chapter steam romance high above Lake Geneva, pp. 86–87
- ^ Rolf L. Temming: Railway museums in the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria and Switzerland . Orell Füssli Verlag, Zurich / Wiesbaden 1989, ISBN 3-280-01892-7 , p. 196
- ^ Walter Trüb: News in brief, Blonay – Chamby (BC) museum railway . In: Eisenbahn-Amateur (magazine), No. 10, 1968, p. 367
- ↑ Reinhard Scholz: A French narrow-gauge locomotive in Switzerland . In: Eisenbahn-Amateur (magazine), No. 7, 1969, pp. 260-261