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BDZ 0-8-0T No. 489.60 (1142)Posted by: Dale W Fické on Dec 7, 2022 @ 06:12:37
It turns out that the locomotive was only built to the Brigadelok design, not for tha latter whose last lok was No. HF 1140. This is actually one of four locomotives built by Smoschewer, Breslau (now Wroclaw) who never previously constructed Brigadeloks. The four locomotives with the serial numbers 775 to 778 were the last brigade locomotives built in 1925. The Bulgarian State Railways used the existing brigade locomotives for the first allocation of numbers, with the last HF number being 1140. Accordingly, the four new locomotives were assigned the numbers 1141 to 1144 Without the preceeding HF being relevant) though the railway line on the Black Sea was built primarily for the transport of salt, it was mainly used for passenger traffic when it was completed. pIn the summer of 2014, the locomotive was transferred to the Bulgarian town of Barakovo in the Rila Mountains, where it is intended as a monument to commemorate the 600 mm industrial railway there.
British Steel, Scunthorpe 0-6-0T No. 8 'Dorothy'/'Thomas' Posted by: Russell Newman on Dec 7, 2022 @ 06:12:20
The ex British Steel, Scunthorpe Hudswell Clarke built 0-6-0T No. 8 "Dorothy" (Thomas The Tank Engine) is still located at the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway at Embsay in Yorkshire still in storage there.
London & North Eastern Railway 4-6-2 No. 60009 (4488, 9) 'Union of South Africa'Posted by: Russell Newman on Dec 7, 2022 @ 06:12:18
It has been announced that owner John Cameron will be moving ex LNER A4 Pacific No. 60009 "Union of South Africa" from the East Lancashire Railway after some cosmetic work to his Railway and Farming Museum at his farm at Balbuthie in Fife, Scotland where she will join ex LNER K4 2-6-0 No. 61994 "The Great Marquess" for display in January 2023, which is expected to be open to the public in 2023.
BDZ (Heeresfeldbahn) 0-8-0T No. 485.60 (HF1138)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 7, 2022 @ 05:12:04
Assigned the HFB number 1138 by the German Heeresfeldbahn. As early as 1919 it came into the inventory of the Bulgarian State Railways, which classified it as BDŽ 1138.In 1936 she was given the number BDŽ identity of "485.60 It is not yet known on which routes the locomotive was used. The locomotive was used in the Rila Mountains from 1942 together with two other brigade locomotives (Henschel 14255 and Henschel 15052). During the Second World War, a small hydroelectric power station was built there not far from a monastery under the direction of a German engineer. A separate field railway was built for the transport of materials. After the completion of the construction work, the light railway served as a means of transport for visitors to the monastery until the late 1960s due to the adverse road conditions. The railway was then shut down and the locomotives parked.In 2000, a German private individual acquired one of the three decommissioned brigade locomotives (Henschel 16020) and had it transported to the railway workshop in Klostermansfeld for refurbishment. The completion of the locomotive, which was planned for 2001, could not be kept due to the desolate condition after years of storage in the open air. After the end of the refurbishment in 2002, the locomotive was transported to the Prora Railway Museum for winter storage. Operations on the rebuilt 1.5 km long MPSB section from Schwichtenberg to Uhlenhorst were originally planned from 2003, but this did not happen. In December 2004, the locomotive was finally transported to the Berlin Park Railway, but it could not be commissioned due to technical problems; it remained with a few test drives. In August 2010, the locomotive was transported back to Klostermansfeld for rework on the running gear, among At the end of 2011, the locomotive returned to Berlin. In 2012, the last adjustment work was carried out on the locomotive, so that on December 7th, 2012 the locomotive could be accepted by the state railway supervisory authority and the acceptance runs could be completed without defects. The locomotive was then used for the first time in official passenger service in front of the park railway St. Nicholas processions.
CEGB Meaford Power Station 0-6-0T No. 2Posted by: Steve Frost, European Editor on Dec 6, 2022 @ 14:12:30
Built by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns at their Darlington works, it worked at Meaford Power Station of the Central Electricity Generating Board in Staffordshire. A sister loco, Meaford No. 1 survives on the North Tyneside Railway The CEGB seems to have a liking for the design as it was used at a number of power stations and a few more survive in preservation it he UK.
Peninsular Railway 0-6-0ST No. 1Posted by: mark kelvin smithers on Dec 6, 2022 @ 13:12:26
What is the story behind this one? How do you know that this locomotive, of which a works photo survives, is at the bottom of the sea? Are there any shipping records or photographs of sunken remains?
BDZ (Heeresfeldbahn) 0-8-0T No. 479.60 (HF1130)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 6, 2022 @ 12:12:21
Originally supplied to the Heeresfeldbahn at their Reserve in Berlin, prior to being despatched to Bulgaria in 1918, until 1964, the locomotive numbered B 479.60 was in use on the 67 km long Kaspican railway, which was used to develop rural areas and to transport wheat and wood. Originally there was a 110 km long standard gauge line planned from Kaspican to Silistra on the Danube, which was under Bulgarian control from 1916 to 1919. Instead, the 600 mm narrow-gauge railway was built, which in 1946 included twelve brigade locomotives. In the 1960s, the railways lost increasing importance due to the increasing traffic, so that it was discontinued in 1964. BDŽ 479.60, together with some sister locomotives, then got to the 9.8 km long General Todorov - Petric narrow-gauge railway, on which nine brigade locomotives were in use. On the route with many inclines, the trains sometimes had to be transported with a pilot locomotive in front, so that four locomotives were always under steam at the same time. In 1969, operations were also discontinued here and the line dismantled, but BDŽ 479.60 remained as a monument in Radomir until 2002 when it went on to be plinthed in Sofia.
Monson RR 0-4-4T No. 3Posted by: SuffolkNorthern on Dec 6, 2022 @ 11:12:42
@Matthew Gardner the Maine Narrow Gauge Museum has taken Custody of the Locomotive after it was revealed that the SR&RL Had Neglected Several Parts on the Locomotive
Wayne County Board of Roads 0-4-0T No. 7Posted by: SuffolkNorthern on Dec 6, 2022 @ 11:12:27
There is a Fellow by the name of Maxwell Stewart who has become the Unofficial Caretaker of the Locomotive. He lives very close and usually comes to the Station to Oil Her Wheels and Wash Her Down. I spoke with him recently and he is Actually in a good position to Restore and Even Buy the Locomotive in the next few years.
CFM industrial, ex-PKP (Heeresfeldbahn) 0-8-0T+T No. Tx-1117 (HF 1096)Posted by: Dale W Fickés, on Dec 6, 2022 @ 10:12:55
Incorrect build number recorded. This is Henschel & Sohn 15973/1918 that was delivered to the German Heeresfeldbahn as the HF 1096, now at home on the French museum railway AECFM - Train Historique du Lac de Rillé, Indre-et-Loire. The locomotive still has the company number "Tx 1117", which it received when it was used on the Polish forest railway in Bialostocka. In 1978 the locomotive was decommissioned in Poland and sold to France in 1984 to the AECFM. In addition to the old company number, the locomotive was christened Polska in memory of the earlier place of use.
Faxe Jernbane 0-4-0T No. VIPosted by: j on Dec 6, 2022 @ 10:12:42
sold to farup somerland for 40,000 dkk
Heeresfeldbahn 0-8-0T No. 1091Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 6, 2022 @ 09:12:18
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.
Forstbahn Hajnowka (Heeresfeldbahn) 0-8-0T No. Tx-200(HF1082)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 6, 2022 @ 08:12:38
Tye locomotive was originally delivered to the Heeresfeldbahn at their Reserve Park, Berlin and first numbered as HF 1082 prior to going to the Forest Railway, now in Poland.
Forstbahn Hajnowka (Heeresfeldbahn) 0-8-0T No. Tx-200(HF1082)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 6, 2022 @ 03:12:01
Tye locomotive was originally delivered to the Heeresfeldbahn at their Reserve Park, Berlin and first numbered as HF 1082 prior to going to the Forest Railway, now in Poland.
TCDD 0-4-0T No. 97Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 6, 2022 @ 03:12:16
Originally Turkish War Railway, Tigris later Derince, Kocaeli Province, No. 97 which is a oort working for the TCDD; plinthed in Izmir from 2007.
Turkish Air Force 0-4-0T No. 4Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 6, 2022 @ 03:12:35
This was originally Turkish War Railway and only subsequently AIr Force Eskeshir. It was eventually plinthed in Rahmi M Koc Museum, Haskoy Harbour, Istanbul, where it still was in 2011.
Oberlausitzer Braunkohlewerke 0-4-0T No. 23Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 6, 2022 @ 03:12:45
Henschel & Sohn No. 10379 is NOT recorded as being extant! Instead this is recorded as Henschel & Sohn 15935/1918 that was delivered new to Anh. Kohlenwerke (Brown Coal), Pit Elizabeth that later went to Werke Otto Scharf as their No. 23, and where it was stored in 1954. It then went to Brikettfabrik Luckenau near Deuben, where it was a stationary boiler in 1974 and in 1983 attended a factory in Naundorf for reconstruction before working for Erich Weinert in Deuben until again being stored in 1999. It went to Industrial Museum, Mitteldeutscher Umwelt- und Technikpark e.V., Naumburger Straße 99, 06712 Zeitz in 2004 and was still there in 2007; info@hermannschach.de
FCS 0-4-0T No. 8Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 6, 2022 @ 02:12:11
This is one of around six surviving examples of 150 6-wheeled examples, mostly built by O&K during WW1 and numbered 401-549., this being deliivered as a 0-6-0T to the KuK, Wien as No. 427. In the 1920s it went to Ferriers Focino, Avezzano, Italy as No. 8 MONTE VELINO and where it was later converted to an 0-4-0T in a gauage of 750mm. It later went to Fer. Met. Bruneck where it was stored in 1977,, later plinthed. In Roma 1999.
British Railways 4-6-2 No. 34072 '257 Squadron'Posted by: Russell Newman on Dec 5, 2022 @ 13:12:28
It has been announced that ex Southern Railway Bulleid Battle of Britain Class Light Pacific No. 34072 "257 Squadron" will be staying at the Spa Valley Railway at Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent as its home, as the locomotive will take residence there along with sable mate sister No. 34053 "Sir Keith Park" when her overhaul is completed. As they will be two Bulleid pacific locomotives to be based at the Spa Valley Railway as they have a good association with the Southern Locomotives Limited.
British Sugar Corporation, Bardney 0-6-0ST No. 4 'Alston'Posted by: Russell Newman on Dec 5, 2022 @ 11:12:19
The former British Sugar Corporation, Bardney Hudswell Clarke built 0-6-0ST (Works No. 1604) No. 4 "Alston" is in the final stages of its restoration as her boiler is due back this week at the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway to be refitted to the locomotive.
FCS 0-4-0T No. 8Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 5, 2022 @ 09:12:14
This is one of around six surviving examples of 150 6-wheeled examples, mostly built by O&K during WW1 and numbered 401-549., this being deliivered as a 0-6-0T to the KuK, Wien as No. 427. In the 1920s it went to Ferriers Focino, Avezzano, Italy as No. 8 MONTE VELINO and where it was later converted to an 0-4-0T in a gauage of 750mm. It later went to Fer. Met. Bruneck where it was stored in 1977,, later plinthed. In Roma 1999.
Ferriera Fucino Avezzano (kkHB)) 0-4-0T No. 9 (426)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 5, 2022 @ 07:12:14
This is one of around six surviving examples of 150 6-wheeled examples, mostly built by O&K during WW1 and numbered 401-549., this being deliivered as a 0-6-0T to the KuK, Wien as No. 426. In the 1920s it went to Ferriers Focino, Avezzano, Italy as No. 9 AQUILA and where it was later converted to an 0-4-0T in a gauage of 750mm. It later went to Fer. Met. Bruneck where it was stored in 1973, later plinthed. In 1999 it was bought privately by RBude, Buschhoven, Germany for the RRR, Rail-Rebecq-Regnon, Belgium and where it was in 2007.
Universale Bau GmbH (Austro-Hungarian Army) 0-6-0T No. 'Heidi' (418)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 5, 2022 @ 06:12:30
The locomotive was built to a gauge 600mm.
Universale Bau GmbH (Austro-Hungarian Army) 0-6-0T No. 'Heidi' (418)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 5, 2022 @ 05:12:59
Further investigations reveal this as one of around six surviving examples of 150 6-wheeled examples, mostly built by O&K during WW1 and numbered 401-549., this being delivered to the KuK as No. 418 in Wien. It later went to Universale AG, Strashof where it was stored in 2002. It was lhen plinthed outside in Trumau, Lower Austria, Austrua but may well be now stored. Not named, and probably
Ruwenhorst & Humbert (Heeresfeldbahn) 0-8-0T No. 33 (HF 1239)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 5, 2022 @ 04:12:40
On the last line of my previous note, No. HF 2786 should read HF 2186, Some or all of the fiour moved to Rillé post 2014.
Ruwenhorst & Humbert (Heeresfeldbahn) 0-8-0T No. 33 (HF 1239)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 4, 2022 @ 13:12:34
Originally delivered to Heeresfeldbahn Depot 1, Berlin who designated it as HF 1239. After WW1 it went to construction company Ruwenhorst & Humbert, Bauuntern as No. 33 and, in 1968 through a local handler went to the CFSE, Évry, Essonne, France as No. 4.1 GEORGETTE. After the association was dissolved, the locomotive was taken over by the Chemin de Fer du Creusot, which operates two 5.2 and 10 kilometre routes through two valleys on the grounds of the Parc des Combes amusement park in Le Creusot, Burgundy, France that now has a total of four ex Brigade loks, i.e. Nos. HF 1239/1727/2786/2332
Sena Sugar Estates (Heeresfeldbahn) 0-8-0T No. 47 (HF913)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 4, 2022 @ 13:12:02
Delivered to the Heeresfeldbahn Depot 1, Berlin as No. HF 913. When the Sena Sugar Estate, was looking for locomotives for its plantations in the 1920s, the choice fell on the brigade locomotive, which was available in large numbers. So the HF 913 was shipped to Mozambique together with other brigade locomotives. The cab was also converted to the tropical version and the boiler to wood firing. HF 913 arrived at the Luabo plantation, where it was assigned road number 6. After being used in front of the sugar cane trains for many years, she was decommissioned like her other Mozambique sisters and has been waiting for better times ever since. This came in 1998, when an English rail enthusiast bought the brigade locomotives parked in Mozambique and had them shipped to England. After their arrival a number were sold to private individuals or clubs. A member of the West Lancashire Light Railway bought the HF 913. It has been stripped down for refurbishment and is currently awaiting boiler repairs. During the refurbishment, the locomotive is to be restored to the condition it was in when it was delivered in 1916, which will require, among other things, a completely new cab. No. 47 is the identity given by the WLLR.
Bourron Sand (Heeresfeldbahn) 0-8-0T No. 3 (HF830)Posted by: Dale W Fickés on Dec 4, 2022 @ 13:12:58
The locomotive was originally delivered to the Heeresfeldbahn as HF 830. After the First World War the locomotive came to the Bourron sand quarry at Bourron-Marlotte, where it was used under No. 3. After she was put away, she came to the Pithiviers Transport Museum around 1970. She was used as a spare parts donor and the remaining locomotive torso was set up as a signpost in front of the museum. Today the locomotive torso carries the boiler of the Henschel 15273/1917, ex HF 1534, which was also used at the Bourron sand pit.
PJKA (SS) 2-4-0 No. B50.04(221)Posted by: Locobase on Dec 4, 2022 @ 09:12:47
Driver diameter 1,412 mm/55.5 in TE 4,072 kg/8,978 lb Boiler pressure: 10 bar/145 psi cylinders 381 mm x 457 mm/15in x 18 in
PJKA (SS) 2-4-0 No. B50.04(221)Posted by: Locobase on Dec 4, 2022 @ 09:12:10
Adhesion weight was 15,3000 kg/33,730 lb, engine weight was 20,300kg/44,753 lb
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