CFR 4-6-0 No. 64.169 (230.084)
Saint Ghislain, Belgium 		Location: Patrimoine Ferroviaire et Touristique
Status: Overhaul
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Here are the notes for CFR No. 64.169 (230.084), a 4-6-0 located in Saint Ghislain, Belgium. If you have additional information about this locomotive, and would like to share it, click the Add Note button.
Posted: Oct 15, 2023 @ 07:10:06 by Achim
The locomotive has been being refurbished in Saint Ghislain since December 2022.
Posted: Dec 10, 2022 @ 09:12:23 by Kevin Hoggett
Loco no longer operational, stored St Ghislain
Posted: Oct 29, 2011 @ 16:10:49 by Steve Frost
This is one of those locos that makes editing this site fascinating. I came across it when looking out video clips on You Tube, but a search for 64.169 failed to produce anything. It just wasn't on the site.

So more searches on the internet produced the facts in the previous notes, and crucially, its Romanian number. Then I moved its record to Belgium and brought its information up to date.

The number 64.169 is the number it would have carried if it had ever been in SNCB stock. It is the next number in the sequence for this class.

The Prussian State Railway (KPEV) built this modern design, class P8, in large numbers from 1906, and some 168 of them passed to Belgium after World War One as reparations from Germany. More were built between the wars, including this example, and the Second World War saw the P8s moving throughout occupied Europe. As a result they could be found in Yugoslavia, Greece, Poland, Czechoslavakia and Romania as well as in both post-war Germanies. That's how it came to be in Romanian stock (CFR). Quite a wanderer, and a classic design.

Posted: Aug 6, 2009 @ 07:08:52 by Philippe De Gieter
All what is mentionned above has been done.  The 64.169 can be seen in Belgium, on the mainline or on the Ciney-Spontin tourist railway,
Posted: Mar 9, 2007 @ 10:03:26 by Denis Verheyden
This locomotive , which was in very bad condition , was bought in 2000 by Belgium's Toeristisch Spoorpatrimonium.It would be restored in Cluj-Napoca in a Belgian P8 , more specifically the SNCB class 64.It will finally come to Belgium in 2007 after more than 5 years of restauration and will be numbered 64.169.