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DR 95 6676
(Borsig 10353/1919), originally
built for HBE and
named ‘Mammuth’, is the sole survivor of this type. Photo taken in Rübeland on May 11, 2008, by
someone who wishes to be known as Wassen (source: www.commons.wikimedia.org).
Earlier photo of the ‘Mammut’, accompanied by DR 95 1025 (Hanomag
10183/1923), taken in Blankenburg on May 28, 1972. Photo by Reinhard Preuss
(from my collection).
DRG 77 002
(later re-numbered 95 002), Borsig
11106/1922. Location and date unknown, most probably a factory photo. This
locomotive remained in the DB
service until March 1957. Photo from my collection.
As many as five 950s have been preserved. One of them is 95
0028-1 (ex 95 028, Hanomag
10181/1923). This photo was taken at the Bochum-Dahlhausen museum on
September 19, 2010, by Henning Pietsch (source: www.commons.wikimedia.org).
The sole preserved Polish TKz is TKz 211 (Borsig 14714/1938), on static display at the Railway Museum in
Warsaw. This photo was taken on May 25, 2005. Relatively small coal box, at
least for a locomotive of that size, is noteworthy.
Another picture of the TKz 211, taken on September 19, 2010. Pointed
smoke-box door was probably not indicative of high speed attained…
TKz 211 one more time: July 6, 2023.
An unidentified locomotive of this type in service with sand railways.
This photo was probably taken shortly before the war. I have found it at www.bagry60.republika.pl, but was
unable to contact website administrator, so details are unknown to me. Any
comment or hint is welcome.
Development of 1-5-1 tank locomotives from Borsig; No.4 corresponds to TKz 206, No.5 – to TKz 207, No.6 – to
TKz 208 through 211, No.8 – to TKz 224. Source: Baureihe 95 (see References).
Two 95s in the DR service:
95 0043 (Hanomag 10258/1924) and 95
0028 (Hanomag 10186/1923), location
and date unknown. Photo from my collection.
DR 95 0004 (former DRG 77 004, Borsig 11108/1922), location and date unknown. Photo from my
collection.
DR 95 0027-3 (Hanomag 10185/1923),
photographed in Saalfeld, Germany, in summer 1981.
This locomotive has been preserved at the Arnstadt
depot. Postcard from my collection. |
Among
the heaviest and most powerful steam locomotives ever used in Poland were
seven 1-5-1 tank engines, originally built for German sand railways in Upper
Silesia. They were developed from Prussian class T20, of which 45 examples
were built by Borsig and Hanomag between 1922 and 1924. Later
they became DRG class 950,
although first ten examples were initially numbered 77 001 through 010.
Class T20 had in turn been based on four heavy tank engines, ordered by Halberstadt-Blankenburger Eisenbahn (HBE) from Borsig in 1917, but delivered only between 1919 and 1921 (later DRG class 9566). Sand
railways needed powerful locomotives in order to fulfill growing demands for
filling material that had to be transported from sand pits to collieries.
This involved heavy drafts on tracks of often poor quality and steep
gradients. First
such engine was delivered to Sandbahngesellschaft
des Grafen von Ballestrem of Peiskretscham (today Pyskowice) by Borsig in 1924 (s/n 11837). It was
given service number 4 and named ‘Franz Pieler’. No.5 ‘Karl Euling’, also
from Borsig (s/n 12117), followed
in 1929. It differed in details and was heavier (axle load increased from
19.3 to 19.8 tonnes). Further four, of modified design and axle load
increased to 20.4 tonnes, were delivered in 1935 (14588 and 14589), 1937
(14699) and 1938 (14714). They were numbered 6 through 9; No.6 was named
‘Nicolaus Graf Ballestrem’, the remaining three did not have individual
names. In 1936 Borsig built another
similar locomotive (s/n 14637) for Preussag
Bergwerk- und Hütten-Verwaltung AG of Hindenburg O/S (today Zabrze).
Numbered 8, it was slightly longer and heavier than those built for the
Peiskretscham-based company. Second engine for Preussag was built by BMAG
(10606/1936); numbered 9, it probably differed from No.8 in details, but its
technical data are not known to me. Because of high axle load these engines
were not allowed on DRG tracks. All
these locomotives survived the war and, following the nationalization of coal
industry, were taken over by newly-formed PMPPW
(Przedsiębiorstwo Materiałów
Podsadzkowych Przemysłu Węglowego – Filling Materials Enterprise of Coal
Industry). Pyskowice-based engines were numbered TKz 206 (ex No.4), TKz 207
(ex No.5) and TKz 208 through 211 (ex Nos.6 through 9). Zabrze-based No.8 and
No.9 became TKz 224 and TKz 226, respectively. PMPPW service numbers were sometimes written with dash, as
TKz-206 etc. Despite high tractive effort, double-heading was not uncommon,
especially during winter, when sand was water-soaked and heavy. Due to large
grate, fireman’s job was by no means an easy one. There were also complaints
on poor access to certain elements, in particular lead truck centre-pin. Coal
capacity of just 4.5 tonnes was too small for a large boiler and engines had
to be coaled frequently. All
locomotives of this type remained in use with PMPPW until early 1970s; later were transferred to collieries and
served for a few more years as heavy switchers. The sole surviving example is
TKz 211, transferred to the Sośnica
colliery and finally withdrawn there in 1974. Refurbished at the ZNTK (Railway Stock Repair Works) of Bydgoszcz
in 1985, it is currently on static display at the Railway Museum in Warsaw.
It should be noted that TKz 180 and TKz 181 were completely different
locomotives, albeit also of the 1-5-1 axle arrangement. Patterned on the
Austrian class 82, they were built by Fablok
in 1928 (factory type T1B) and are described under a separate entry. Main technical data – TKz
208 through 211
Main technical data – TKz
224
References and
acknowledgments ̶
Koleje piaskowe (Sand Railways) vol. 1 by Krzysztof Soida, Mariusz Furtek and
Tomasz Roszak (Betezda, 2007); ̶
www.beitraege.lokomotive.de
(website by Ingo Hütter); ̶
www.piaskownie.prv.pl (website
by Grzegorz Radliński); ̶
1E1-Sandbahn-Tenderlokomotive,
in Die Lokomotive, Januar 1937; ̶
Baureihe 95 by Wolfram Brozeit, Hans Müller and Günter Bölke
(Transpress, 1990). |
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