ZVTM No. 14 to 21

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ZVTM No. 14 to 21
DR series 99.27
Numbering: 99 271
Number: 1
Manufacturer: Young
Year of construction (s): 1918
Retirement: 1951
Type : B n2t
Genre : K 22.6
Gauge : 1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Length over buffers: 5,755 mm
Height: 3,440 mm
Total wheelbase: 2,000 mm
Service mass: 12 t
Friction mass: 12 t
Driving wheel diameter: 850 mm
Number of cylinders: 2
Number of heating pipes: 50
Evaporation heating surface: 19.37 m²
Water supply: 1.6 m³
Fuel supply: 0.5 t coal

The locomotives no. 14 to 21 of the Zeeuwsch-Vlaamsche Tramweg-Maatschappij were two-axle narrow - gauge locomotives . The locomotive No. 21 came to the Deutsche Reichsbahn after the Second World War and was given the road number 99 271 .

history

During the Second World War, three steam locomotives were brought to Wangerooge as part of the Todt Organization's coastal fortification program in 1944. One came from the Zeeuwsch-Vlaamsche Tramweg-Maatschappij in the Netherlands and had the number 21 there. After the end of the war it was added to the vehicle fleet of the Deutsche Reichsbahn. How far the locomotive was used is not known. The locomotive's superheater was declared unusable in November 1945. In 1951 it was officially retired.

technical features

It was a box steam locomotive . The landing gear was covered. The locomotive had an internal engine. The second axis was driven. The locomotive had a throw lever brake. Coal and water were stored in front of the driver's cab.

literature

  • Malte Werning: Wangerooge: The island railway and its history . Lokrundschau Verlag, Gülzow 1999, ISBN 3-931647-09-9 .
  • PH Kiers: Nederlandse trams naar en in Duitsland . In: Nederlandse Vereniging van Belangstellenden in het Spoor en tramwegwezen (ed.): Op de Rails . No. 5 , 1995.