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KukHB 328.003
(BMAG 5458/1916), unrealized CFR 2076. This locomotive became Oi101-3 and in 1939
was taken over by DRG and
re-numbered 37 403. It was withdrawn by DB
in 1951. Data and location unknown. Source: LAÖ.
Last example
delivered to CFR was 2073 (BMAG 5455/1916), which was finally
withdrawn in January 1964. Source: ITFR vol 1.
An unknown Oi101, decorated with flowers and
Polish national emblem, photographed in Dziedzice in June 1929 during
transfer of the ashes of General Józef Bem, our national hero, to Poland.
Source: National Digital Archives (NAC), used by permission.
DRG 37 409, previously Oi101-10, originally delivered to kukHB as 328.10
(BMAG 5465/1917), location and date
unknown. This locomotive was returned by DR
in September 1955 and withdrawn in December without being assigned new
service number. Photo from my collection. |
PKP class designation Oi101 was
assigned to twenty class 328 locomotives taken over as a part of reparations
from kaiserlich und königliche
Heeresbahn (kukHB) – railways
of the Austro-Hungarian army. Their provenience was, however, more complex. Romanian
state railways CFR (Căile Ferate Române) ordered locomotives with the 1-3-0 axle
arrangement in considerable numbers. Between 1905 and 1913 as many as 192 Moguls were purchased from German,
Austrian and Russian manufacturers; these were engines for mixed traffic,
with 1350 or 1468 mm drivers. Apart from them, further 33 passenger
locomotives with 1665 mm drivers were built by StEG and Kolomna. In 1910 their superheated variant was ordered from Henschel, 25
examples being supplied (numbered 2034 through 2058, factory numbers 10258/1910
through 10282/1910). In 1912 next order was placed, this time with Belgian Societè Generale d’Exploitation de Chemins de Fer
(commonly known as Tubize),
for eleven examples, numbered 2059 through 2069 (factory numbers 1719/1912
through 1729/1912). In 1916 a third batch of 24 locomotives was ordered from BMAG (Schwartzkopff), numbered 2070
through 2093 (factory numbers 5452/1916 through 5475/1916), but only first
four had been delivered when Romania entered the war on the side of Entente.
The rest were promptly sold to kukHB and classed 328. All survived until 1918 and all
were handed over to Poland. Although of Austrian origin, they had not come
from state railways kkStB,
hence class designation Oi101 in the range reserved for locomotives ‘of
foreign origin other than German or Austrian’. For some unknown reason, their
tenders were classed 15C11, i.e. considered of Austrian origin. In early
1920s all twenty examples were assigned to the Kraków
regional management and remained there until 1939. Thirteen were taken over
by the Germans and impressed into DRG
as class 374. Seven fell into Soviet hands, but all later became
German war booty. Four went to DRG
and were re-numbered 37 414 through 417 (two of them only formally). The
remaining three served with Ostbahn. After
the war six engines were returned and numbered Oi101-1 through 6; one of
them, Oi101-2 (pre-war Oi101-12, BMAG
5467/1916) was initially erroneously included into class Oi1 and numbered
Oi1-4. Due to poor technical condition, three of them were not restored in
service and promptly written off. Oi101-7 (BMAG 5462/1916, after 1939 37 407) was taken over in 1945 by
MPS and remained in use with its
German number until November 1952. Four locomotives were returned by DR in late 1955 and scrapped without
being assigned new service numbers. The rest remained with DB, but saw no use and were formally
written off on December 31, 1951. Post-war service of this type with PKP was rather short, the last example
(Oi101-5, pre-war Oi101-20, BMAG
5475/1916) being withdrawn in June 1954. Romanian superheated passenger Moguls remained in service until late
1960s; last two, 2064 (Tubize 1724/1912) and 2066 (Tubize 1726/1912) were withdrawn in August
1968. Not a single engine of this type has been preserved. Main
technical data
List of vehicles can be found here. References
and acknowledgments
-
LP,
ITFR; -
www.pospichal.net/lokstatistik
(website by Josef Pospichal); -
www.beitraege.lokomotive.de/datenbank
(website by Ingo Hütter); -
Article
by Paweł Terczyński and Krzysztof Zintel (SK vol. 7/2024). |
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