WRB - Fahrafeld to Felixdorf
| WRB "FAHRAFELD" to "FELIXDORF" SStB "FAHRAFELD" to "FELIXDORF" SB 27 (old), 23 |
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 WRB "Leobersdorf"
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| Type : | C n2 |
| Length over buffers: | 7,960 mm |
| Height: | 4,300 mm |
| Service mass: | 27.4 t |
| Friction mass: | 27.4 t |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 1,422 mm |
| Cylinder diameter: | 421 mm |
| Piston stroke: | 579 mm |
| Boiler overpressure: | 4.9 bar |
| Tubular heating surface: | 109.00 m² |
The steam locomotives "FAHRAFELD" , "RAXALPE" , "LEOBERSDORF" and "FELIXDORF" were four passenger locomotives of the Vienna – Raaber (Gloggnitzer) Railway (WRB).
1846 constructed John Haswell the first Austrian three couplers for "mountain section" (7 ‰) by Wiener Neustadt according Gloggnitz . It was the "FAHRAFELD" and the "RAXALPE". In 1847 the “LEOBERSDORF” and the “FELIXDORF” from the machine factory of the WRB, the later locomotive factory of the StEG, followed practically identically . The locomotives had external cylinders but internal controls . The second and third axles had a common suspension spring via a balancer . The attempt at an exhaust steam preheater failed and was later removed again. The steam room was too small so that the locomotives ran over water.
The machines were able to transport 300 t on said "mountain route", but only 90 t on the Semmering Railway , which opened in 1854 .
The four locomotives came via the kk Südliche Staatsbahn to the Südbahngesellschaft , where they were given the serial number 27 and the numbers 797-800 . Most recently they were used in the Hungarian network of the Southern Railway. So they were stationed in Nagy Kanizsa in 1861 . After that, their track is lost.
A historically no longer clearly provable possibility is that they were transferred to the Italian-South Tyrolean network. According to this hypothesis, they would have been given the names "MARCO POLO", "SCALIGERO", "BERICO" and "POLENI" if they had a second occupation and would be identical to the locomotives described under LVF - Marco Polo to Poleni .
Postscript: The name "FAHRAFELD" comes from the municipality of Fahrafeld . The small town is quite far from the WRB network and the Niederösterreichische Südwestbahn , which touches the town , was not opened until 1877 . The name is based on the fact that Baron Sina had possessions in Fahrafeld at that time.
literature
- Herbert Dietrich: The southern railway and its predecessors , Bohmann Verlag, Vienna, 1994, ISBN 3-7002-0871-5
- Karl Gölsdorf: Locomotive construction in old Austria 1837-1918 , Slezak publishing house, 1978, ISBN 3-900134-40-5