Palatinate G 4.I
Palatine G 4 I DR series 55 72 |
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Palatinate G 4 I.
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Numbering: | 209-220, 231-245 DR 55 7201-7215 |
Number: | 27 |
Manufacturer: | Krauss |
Year of construction (s): | 1898-1899 |
Retirement: | Late 1920s |
Type : | D n2 |
Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
Length over buffers: | 16,770 mm |
Service mass: | 54.8 t |
Friction mass: | 54.8 t |
Wheel set mass : | 14.1 t |
Top speed: | 45 km / h |
Driving wheel diameter: | 1250 mm |
Cylinder diameter: | 630 mm |
Piston stroke: | 530 mm |
Boiler overpressure: | 12 bar |
Grate area: | 2.25 m² |
Evaporation heating surface: | 145.70 m² |
Tender: | 3 T 12 |
Water supply: | 12.0 m³ |
The steam locomotives of the class G 4 I were freight train steam locomotives of the Palatinate Railways with four coupled axles and without running axles.
description
The Pfalzbahn had a total of two series of this locomotive built by the Krauss company. In 1898 she received twelve and in 1899 15 copies of this type, which were stationed in Neustadt , among other places . A total of 15 of these machines were redesignated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in the class 55 72 with the numbers 55 7201–7215 and operated until the end of the 1920s. The remaining copies went to the First World War to the railways of the Saar .
The locomotives were equipped with type 3 T 12 tenders .
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Hitschler, Marcus Klein, Thomas Gierth: The vehicles and systems of the Neustadt Railway Museum (Weinstrasse) . Museum guide. Ed .: DGEG-Eisenbahnmuseum Neustadt / Weinstrasse. 5th edition. Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 2010, ISBN 3-921700-73-6 , p. 9 .
- ^ A b Lothar Spielhoff: Länderbahn steam locomotives. Volume 2. Baden, Bavaria, Pfalz and Württemberg . In: German Railways . Weltbild, Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-89350-819-8 , p. 85 (first edition: Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 1990).