Saxon VIII 1

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Saxon VIII 1
WP Saxon VIII 1.jpg
number 8th
Commissioning 1870
Retirement until 1922
Axis formula 2 B
Ø driving wheel 1,830 mm
Ø front wheel 990 mm
Top speed 70 km / h
Boiler pressure 8.5 kgf / cm²
83.4 kN / cm²
Piston stroke 560 mm
Cylinder diameter 406 mm
Grate surface 1.32 m²
Evaporation heating surface 93.2 m²
medium axle load 10.2 Mp
100.0 kN
Locomotive friction load 20.3 Mp
199.1 kN
Locomotive service load 36.8 Mp
360.9 kN
Brake design Westinghouse brakes
grinder brakes

The class VIII 1 of the Saxon State Railways was an express locomotive with the wheel arrangement 2'B. The vehicles were used on the route between Dresden and Chemnitz .

history

They were modeled on machines from Württemberg . They were equipped with an American bogie and a tall stand-up tank box instead of the second steam dome . In addition, the boiler was higher.

The locomotives, which were more than 50 years old, were decommissioned by the Deutsche Reichsbahn before they were given a new series designation.

See also

literature

Lothar Spielhoff: Länderbahn steam locomotives. Volume 1: Prussia, Mecklenburg, Oldenburg, Saxony and Alsace-Lorraine . Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-440-06145-0 .