Palatinate G 4.III
| Palatinate G 4 III | |
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 Palatinate G 4.III
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| Numbering: | 200, 201 |
| Number: | 2 |
| Year of construction (s): | 1896 |
| Retirement: | 1920s |
| Axis formula : | 1'D |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | 16,710 mm |
| Service mass: | 51.5 t |
| Wheel set mass : | 13.0 t |
| Top speed: | 55 km / h |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 1,160 mm |
| Impeller diameter front: | 945 mm |
| Cylinder diameter: | 540 mm |
| Piston stroke: | 560 mm |
| Boiler overpressure: | 13 bar |
| Grate area: | 2.22 m² |
| Evaporation heating surface: | 150.50 m² |
| Tender: | 3 T 12 |
| Water supply: | 12.0 m³ |
The steam locomotives of class G 4 III were freight locomotives of the Palatinate Railways , which from 1906 were transferred to the Royal Bavarian State Railways as the head office on the left bank of the Rhine.
history
In 1896 the Pfalzbahn decided to purchase two locomotives with a 1'D arrangement in addition to the existing Mallet locomotives of the G 4 II class . The two machines modeled after the Bavarian E I built. As an experiment, they were equipped with double cylinders of the Sondermann type. This version did not prove itself and was replaced by equipment with conventional cylinders .
They were with a Tender equipped to type 3 T 12th
literature
- Lothar Spielhoff: Länderbahn steam locomotives. Baden, Bavaria, Palatinate and Württemberg . In: German Railways . tape 2 . Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-89350-819-8 , p. 87 .