Heeresfeldbahn 0-8-0T No. 1091
Toddington, Gloucestershire, UK 		Location: North Gloucester Railway
Status: Out of Service
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Posted: Dec 6, 2022 @ 09:12:18 by Dale W Fickés
Originally delivered to the HFB Reserve Park, Berlin where it was numbered HF 1091. After delivery, it was originally intended for them but at the end of the war, the locomotive went to Krain & Fesser, Katowice, Poland before from January 1938 working for the nearby Naklo sugar factor, on whose routes it was used until it was decommissioned. In 1986, the North Gloucestershire Railway, which operates on a standard gauge line that has been re-gauged to 600mm, took on the locomotive and refurbished it. Today the locomotive is in field grey livery and labeled as HF 1091 in the condition in which it was delivered in front of the museum trains. The locomotive was regauged to 610mm. In May and June 2009, the loco was used as a guest loco to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway.
Posted: May 8, 2020 @ 15:05:58 by luke
out of service
Posted: May 22, 2016 @ 16:05:51 by Steve Frost
This is one of the large number of Feldbahn locos built for the German Army during the Great War of 1914 - 1918. Various builders made them and all featured a flexible wheel arrangement using the Klein - Lindner system where the centre two axles were rigid in the frame and the outer two were articulated with a rigid axle which took the drive from the connecting rods inside a hollow axle that carried the wheel set. The hollow axle was connected to the rigid inner axle at its centre, allowing the wheels to pivot and follow the curve. The outer wheel sets were controlled by A arms which were in turn linked at the centre of the loco.

After the Great War these little locos found use throughout the world especially on lightly laid track in forestry operations and sugar plantations. Now some are in the UK which completes the collection of Great War field locos in this country.