VR series Pr2
| VR series Pr2 (planned as EVR series Kk2) | |
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| Numbering: | VR 1800-1803, EVR 80-83 |
| Number: | 4th |
| Manufacturer: | Henschel |
| Year of construction (s): | 1939 |
| Retirement: | until 1971 |
| Axis formula : | 2'C2 'h2t |
| Gauge : | 1524 mm |
| Length over buffers: | 16 240 mm |
| Empty mass: | 87.3 t |
| Service mass: | 114 t |
| Friction mass: | 51 t |
| Wheel set mass : | 17th t |
| Top speed: | 100 km / h |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 1830 mm |
| Control type : | Heusinger |
| Number of cylinders: | 2 |
| Cylinder diameter: | 530 mm |
| Piston stroke: | 660 mm |
| Boiler overpressure: | 16 bar |
| Grate area: | 3.50 m² |
| Superheater area : | 66.2 m² |
| Evaporation heating surface: | 171.5 m² |
| Water supply: | 14.0 m³ |
| Fuel supply: | 8.0 m³ |
| Control: | Heusinger |
The VR series Pr2 was a tank locomotive of the Finnish State Railways Valtionrautatiet (VR) with a 2'C2 'h2t wheel arrangement. The locomotives were originally ordered from Henschel in 1939 by the Estonian state railway Eesti Vabariigi Raudtee as the Kk2 series and finally delivered to Finland in 1942 after the Soviet occupation of Estonia . They were never used in Estonia.
history
After Estonian independence in 1919, the Eesti Vabariigi Raudtee (EVR) locomotive park was largely composed of acquired Russian locomotives. It was not until 1938 that the first new locomotives for the broad gauge used in Estonia were procured, initially from the local Krull machine factory in Tallinn . In 1939 four tank locomotives were ordered from Henschel in Kassel based on the model of the class 62 of the Deutsche Reichsbahn , which were to be given the class designation Kk2. The EVR originally planned to purchase ten machines, but could not finance them.
The locomotives were completed in autumn 1939. Due to the Second World War , which had meanwhile started , extradition to the EVR was prohibited. The locomotives stayed with Henschel in Kassel until the summer of 1941. After the attack on the Soviet Union, they were brought to Latvia and used there by the Reichsbahn on the Liepāja - Jelgava - Krustpils route until these - like almost all other routes in the areas of the Soviet Union and the Baltic States conquered by the Wehrmacht - on the European standard gauge was nailed .
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After the gauge change, the Reichsbahn was no longer used for the locomotives, so it sold them to the Finnish state railway VR in 1942. This initially converted the locomotives originally equipped for oil firing to wood firing, as was often the case with Finnish steam locomotives. In the years from 1947 to 1952, VR had a total of ten of its steam locomotives converted to oil firing, including all four locomotives of the Pr2 series.
The locomotives were decommissioned by the early 1970s, the locomotive with the Finnish number 1800 remained as a museum locomotive in Haapamäki .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Herman Gijsbert Hesselink, Norbert Tempel: Eisenbahnen im Baltikum , Verlag Lok-Report, Münster 1996, p. 91.
- ↑ Mikko Alameri: Railways in Finland , Vienna 1979, p. 45.
literature
- Mikko Alameri: Railways in Finland . Verlag Josef Otto Slezak, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-900134-22-7 .
- Herman Gijsbert Hesselink, Norbert Tempel: Railways in the Baltic States , Lok-Report publishing house, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-921980-51-8 .
- Eljas Pölhö / Pekka Honkanen: Höyryveturit Vationratateillä / The steam locomotives of the finnish state railway , Finnish Railway History Society, Helsinki 2018, ISBN 978-952-93-9066-3
