Saxon-Baiersche Railway - Elephant and Leopard
| ELEPHANT, LEOPARD | |
|---|---|
| Number: | 2 |
| Manufacturer: | Robert Stephenson and Company , Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Year of construction (s): | 1844 |
| Retirement: | 1876/1877 |
| Type : | 1B n2 ( from 1856: 1B n2t) |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 1420 mm |
| Impeller diameter: | k. A. |
| Number of cylinders: | 2 |
| Cylinder diameter: | 356 mm |
| Piston stroke: | 559 mm |
| Boiler overpressure: | 5.0 atm |
| Heating pipe length: | 3778 mm |
The ELEPHANT and LEOPARD were tender locomotives of the Saxon-Baiers Railway Company .
history
The two locomotives were delivered to the Sächsisch-Baiersche Eisenbahn-Compagnie in 1844 by Robert Stephenson and Company in Newcastle upon Tyne / England with the serial numbers 445 and 446. There they were given the names ELEPHANT and LEOPARD . The Sächsisch-Baiersche Eisenbahn-Compagnie was nationalized in 1847. The company, now trading as the Saxon-Bavarian State Railroad , had both vehicles converted into tank locomotives in 1856.
In 1862 they were sold to the Zweigeisenbahngesellschaft zu Großenhain , where they were given the new names GROSSENHAIN I and GROSSENHAIN II . After this company was taken over by the Leipzig-Dresdner Eisenbahn-Compagnie (LDE), they no longer had names. They were henceforth designated with the numbers 1 and 2.
After the nationalization of the LDE in 1876, the two outdated locomotives were no longer used. The Royal Saxon State Railways gave them the names BELL and HALDE and retired them until 1877.
literature
- Fritz Näbrich, Günter Meyer, Reiner Preuß: Lokomotivarchiv Sachsen 1 , transpress VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin, 1983
- Erich Preuß , Reiner Preuß : Saxon State Railways , transpress Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin, 1991, ISBN 3-344-70700-0 .