Prussian G 4.1

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G 4.1 (Prussia)
DR series 53.76
FS 272
PKP Th2
LG P4
LVD Mn
SŽD М н (M n )
LBE G 3
Numbering: DR 53 7601-7617
Number: 165
Year of construction (s): 1884-1901
Type : C n2
Length over buffers: 15,508 mm
Total wheelbase: 3,400 mm
Service mass: 40.4 t
Friction mass: 40.4 t
Wheel set mass : 13.47 t
Top speed: 45 km / h
Driving wheel diameter: 1,340 mm
Number of cylinders: 2
Cylinder diameter: 450 mm
Piston stroke: 630 mm
Boiler overpressure: 12 bar
Grate area: 1.53 m²
Evaporation heating surface: 116.00 m²
Tender: 3 T 12

The Prussian class G 4 consisted of triple-coupled freight locomotives with a boiler pressure of 12 bar, which the Prussian State Railways had classified in class G 4 in 1905. These included 16 locomotives from the Mainz directorate that came from the Hessian Ludwig Railway. These locomotives were delivered between 1872 and 1896 and did not correspond to the Prussian standard design.

The later G 4.1 was a further development of the G 3 . A significant increase in performance was achieved through the increased boiler pressure. Around 165 G 4.1s were delivered between 1884 and 1901, plus numerous modifications to locomotives with originally 10 bar boiler pressure. However, not all corresponding locomotives were designated as G 4.

After the end of the First World War , two G 4s (as FS 272 .003–004 ) and G 4.1 ( 272.001–002 ) each came from the armistice levies to the Italian State Railways (FS). The Polish State Railways (PKP) received eight machines and ran them as the Th2 series . In 1927 they were all still in service, but seven were retired by 1936. The last one on duty was Rh2-7. The Lithuanian state railway Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (LG) took over two locomotives as the P4 series with the numbers 609 and 610. The 609 was possibly sometimes referred to as 261 and in 1925 after the P3 602 (formerly Prussian G 3) was retired as 602 II . The Latvian State Railways Latvijas Valsts Dzelzsceļi (LVD) took over two of them, which they classified into the Mn series with the numbers 279 and 290 like the other standard-gauge C freight locomotives . During the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940, the Mn 279 was still available and was classified by the Soviet Railways (SŽD) as the М н (M n ) series.

In 1923, the Deutsche Reichsbahn provided for 92 locomotives in their preliminary re-drawing plan to be re-designated as 53 7601-7692. In 1925, however, only 17 locomotives with the numbers 53 7601-7617 were planned for redrawing . The retirement took place until 1930.

The Lübeck-Büchener Eisenbahn also owned two locomotives of this type built in 1892 and 1893, which Schwartzkopff had manufactured under the serial numbers 1962 and 1963. They were given the numbers 43 and 44 and the names Hessen and Thuringia . In 1903 they were classified together with the G 4.2 as G 3 and in 1917 renumbered 63 and 64. Locomotive 64 was retired in 1922 and 63 in 1923.

The vehicles of type G 4.1 are equipped with a type pr 3 T 12 tender.

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 .
  • Wagner, Bäzold, Zschech, Lüderitz: Locomotives of the Prussian Railways - freight locomotives. (Railway Vehicle Archive 2.3.3); Alba Verlag, Düsseldorf 1990, ISBN 3-87094-134-0
  • Herbert Rauter, Manfred Weisbrod: Prussia Report. Volume No. 5 Hermann-Merker-Verlag, Fürstenfeldbruck 1992; ISBN 3-922404-22-7

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Th1 and Th2. In: locomotives.com.pl. Accessed August 7, 2016 .
  2. ^ Herman Gijsbert Hesselink, Norbert Tempel: Railways in the Baltic States. History and present of the railways in Lithuania • Latvia • Estonia . Verlag Lok-Report, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-921980-51-8 , p. 72 .
  3. ^ Herman Gijsbert Hesselink, Norbert Tempel: Railways in the Baltic States. History and present of the railways in Lithuania • Latvia • Estonia . Verlag Lok-Report, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-921980-51-8 , p. 84 .
  4. ^ Herman Gijsbert Hesselink, Norbert Tempel: Railways in the Baltic States. History and present of the railways in Lithuania • Latvia • Estonia . Verlag Lok-Report, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-921980-51-8 , p. 85 .
  5. ^ Witali Alexandrowitsch Rakow: Russian and Soviet steam locomotives . 1st edition. transpress VEB Verlag für Verkehrwesen, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-344-00060-8 , Steam locomotives of the Latvian Railway, p. 249-250 .
  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.