Heeresfeldbahnlokomotive HF 160 D
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Narrow gauge
A narrow gauge railway is a railway that has a track gauge narrower than the of standard gauge railways. Most existing narrow gauge railways have gauges of between and .- Overview :...
steam locomotive
Steam locomotive
A steam locomotive is a railway locomotive that produces its power through a steam engine. These locomotives are fueled by burning some combustible material, usually coal, wood or oil, to produce steam in a boiler, which drives the steam engine...
s of military field railway (Heeresfeldbahn
Heeresfeldbahn
A Heeresfeldbahn is a German or Austrian military field railway . They were field railways designed for the military transportation purposes.- History :...
) class HF 160 D were 0-8-0
0-8-0
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 0-8-0 represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, eight powered and coupled driving wheels on four axles, and no trailing wheels...
tender locomotives developed for wartime service during the Second World War. The engines were also classified as Kriegsdampflokomotive 11 (wartime steam locomotive 11) or KDL 11. After the war the locomotives were put to use for civilian purposes.
HF 160 D in Austria
In the Austrian Federal Railway (ÖBB), the locomotives were grouped into Class 699. Class 699.1 was a rebuild of the engines into tank locomotiveTank locomotive
A tank locomotive or tank engine is a steam locomotive that carries its water in one or more on-board water tanks, instead of pulling it behind it in a tender. It will most likely also have some kind of bunker to hold the fuel. There are several different types of tank locomotive dependent upon...
s. Class 699 engines could be encountered on several ÖBB narrow gauge railways: the Bregenzerwald Railway, the Pinzgau Railway, the Waldviertel Narrow Gauge Railway, the Vellach Valley Railway and the Steyr Valley Railway. Six engines had been retired by 1973, number 699.103 belonged to the operating fleet of the Steyrtalbahn until its withdrawal in 1982.
Post 1945
- Société Franco-BelgeSociété Franco-BelgeThe Société Franco-Belge de Matériel de Chemins de Fer was a French engineering firm that specialised mainly in the construction of railway vehicles and their components and accessories. Its was based at Raismes in the Département Nord in France...
2817/1944: HF 2817 → ÖBB 699.101 → Gurk Valley Railway 699.101, operational - Société Franco-Belge 2818/1944: HF 2818 → ÖBB 699.01 → Club 760 699.01, working, in use on the TaurachbahnTaurachbahnThe Taurachbahn is a narrow-gauge museum railway in the Austrian state of Salzburg.-History:The Taurachbahn uses the section of the Murtalbahn from Tamsweg to Mauterndorf, which was closed for economic reasons in 1981 after heavy damage to a bridge. The section was revived as a museum railway by...
- Société Franco-Belge 2819/1944: HF 2819 → ÖBB 699.102
- Société Franco-Belge 2821/1944: HF 2821 → ÖBB 699.103
- Société Franco-Belge 2822/1944: HF 2822 → ÖBB 699.02 → ? → Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin, not working
- Société Franco-Belge 2836/1945: ? → CFCD No. 10, working, Chemin de fer Froissy-Dompierre (APPEVA), France
- Société Franco-Belge 2843/1945: ? → AMTP Nr. 4-12, converted to 600 mm rail gaugeRail gaugeTrack gauge or rail gauge is the distance between the inner sides of the heads of the two load bearing rails that make up a single railway line. Sixty percent of the world's railways use a standard gauge of . Wider gauges are called broad gauge; smaller gauges, narrow gauge. Break-of-gauge refers...
, working, PithiviersPithiviersPithiviers is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France. It is twinned with Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, England....
, France; L'Association du Musée des Transports de Pithiviers - Société Franco-Belge 2844/1945: ? → No. unknown, converted to 600 mm rail gaugeRail gaugeTrack gauge or rail gauge is the distance between the inner sides of the heads of the two load bearing rails that make up a single railway line. Sixty percent of the world's railways use a standard gauge of . Wider gauges are called broad gauge; smaller gauges, narrow gauge. Break-of-gauge refers...
, not working, Bligny sur Ouches, France, http://www.lepetittraindebligny.com/ - Société Franco-Belge 2845/1945: ? → Le Petit Train de la Vallee de la Doller (1435mm), France (loco converted to standard gaugeStandard gaugeThe standard gauge is a widely-used track gauge . Approximately 60% of the world's existing railway lines are built to this gauge...
) - Société Franco-Belge 2855/1944: HF 2855 → SKGLB 19 –without tender→ STLB 699.01 → W&LLRWelshpool and Llanfair Light RailwayThe Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway is a narrow gauge heritage railway in Powys, Wales. The line is around long and runs westwards from the town of Welshpool via Castle Caereinion to the village of Llanfair Caereinion. The track gauge is ....
No. 10 "Sir Drefaldwyn", Grafschaft Powys, Wales, Great Britain - Société Franco-Belge 2856/1944: HF 2856 → ÖBB 699.03
- Société Franco-Belge 2857/1944: HF 2857 → ÖBB 699.104
Sources
- Krobot, Slezak, Sternhart – Schmalspurig durch Österreich, 4. Auflage, Verlag Slezak, 1991, ISBN 3-85416-095-X
- Slezak, Sternhart – Renaissance der Schmalspurbahn in Österreich, Verlag Slezak, 1986, ISBN 3-85416-097-6
- Strässle – Schmalspurbahn-Aktivitäten in Österreich, Verlag Slezak, 1997, ISBN 3-85416-184-0
- Dieter Zoubek – Erhaltene Dampflokomotiven in und aus Österreich, Eigenverlag, 2004, ISBN 3-200-00174-7
- Herbert Fritz - KDL 11 - Kriegsdampflokomotive 11 - Von der Heeresfeldbahn zur ÖBB-Reihe 699 (Club 760 im Eigenverlag, 1986)
External links
- There is a relevant English-language forum at Railways of Germany