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Factory photo of the KRB
57 ‘Grimming’ (later kkStB 101, reko
2.42, WrN
2291/1877). This locomotive was taken over by ČSD
and withdrawn in 1922. Source: www.commons.wikipedia.org.
Factory photo of the ÖNWB ‘Stuart
Mill’, then kkStB 50 and finally 16.38 (WLF 105/1873). Taken over by ČSD
and numbered 232.16, this locomotive survived until 1929. Source: www.commons.wikipedia.org.
Class 16 side
drawing; source: EZ vol. 1.
KkStB 16.15 + 23.23, ex ÖNWB 21 ‘Reaumur’
(Sigl 1191/1870), Liberec, July 13,
1921. Later this locomotive served with ČSD as 232.009 and was withdrawn in September
1932. Source: www.commons.wikimedia.org.
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Od11
is one of ‘uncertain’ ex-Austrian PKP
classes – ‘a class that never was’. Most probably this designation was
intended, but actually never assigned, to kkStB classes 1 and 16. Ultimate confirmation is,
however, lacking. All these locomotives were withdrawn from use before new PKP designation system came into use. In
1877 Kronprinz Rudolf Bahn
(KRB) ordered eight 2-2-0 class AR
passenger engines from Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik
(WrN).
These locomotives featured outer frame and single-expansion steam engines.
They were followed in 1879 by five more for the same railway, this time for
the Tarvisio-Pontebba line. In 1880 KRB came under state supervision,
which was followed by nationalization in 1884. Production continued, with
five more ARs built by WrN
in 1882 and five by Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf
(WLF) in 1883. These locomotives
became kkStB
class 1 and were numbered 101 through 123 (later 1.01 through 1.23). Finally,
in 1883, WrN
delivered five slightly modified engines for the Lemberg-Czernowitz-Jassy Eisenbahn (LCJE,
class IIIe). They were given Polish individual
names: ‘Ogień’ (Fire), ‘Burza’
(Storm), ‘Bieg’ (Run), ‘Para’ (Steam) and ‘Moc’ (Power). Following the railway nationalization in
1889, they became kkStB
124 through 128 (later 1.24 through 1.28). Five
class 1 locomotives, including three from LCJE,
were withdrawn before WWI. Five were kept by Austrian state railways BBÖ, but three of them were written
off in 1923, one was sold to industry and one (1.20, WLF 445/1883) was transferred in 1926 to Technisches Museum in Wien, where it still remains on static display. Former
LCJE ‘Moc’
(kkStB
1.27, WrN 2779/1883) fell into Russian hands in
1917. Between 1893 and 1910 sixteen locomotives were rebuilt to the class 2
standard and given new service numbers. LCJE
‘Burza’ (kkStB 1.24, WrN 2776/1883) was intended for PKP and, according to www.pospichal.net/lokstatistik,
was to be re-numbered Od11-1. This, however, was never done and the obsolete,
almost forty-years old engine was scrapped in Linz in 1922. KkStB
class 16 was even older. Between 1870 and 1871 Sigl (which later became Wiener Neustädter
Lokomotivfabrik) built thirty class IIIa passenger locomotives for k.k. privilegierte Österreichische Nordwestbahn (ÖNWB). They were followed by sixteen very similar engines from WLF (class IIIb),
delivered in 1873. Two more locomotives from the original ÖNWB order placed with WLF were taken over by Mährisch-Schlesische Zentralbahn.
After nationalization all these engines were taken over by kkStB; classed
16, they were given service numbers 16.02 through 46 (three were withdrawn
until 1909, including the ‘candidate’ for 16.01). They featured 2-2-0 axle
arrangement and outer frame. Later production examples had steam pressure
increased from 9 to 10 bar; in the kkStB service, however, it was decreased to 9 bar. Eleven
examples were written off between 1910 and 1917. The rest was divided between
Poland and Czechoslovakia. ČSD took
over twenty engines, of which eighteen were later classed 232.0. Their
service was surprisingly long: the last one, 65-years old 232.014 (former
16.32, WLF 99/1873) was withdrawn
in March 1938. Fourteen examples were handed over to PKP. These completely obsolete locomotives were of little use and
all were written off between 1927. Not a single example of class 16 has
survived until today. Main technical data –
class 1*)
*) Data
for locomotives originally built for LCJE.
1)
Planned, never taken over. Main technical data –
class 16*)
*) First two production
examples differed slightly in dimensions and boiler details. References
and acknowledgments
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LP, EZ vol. 1, KT vol. 1; |
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