Alsace-Lorraine G 8.1

The Alsace-Lorraine G 8.1 was a hot steam train locomotive with four driving axles on the model of the Prussian G 8.1. At that there was no structural differences. The Imperial Railways in Alsace-Lorraine received in the years 1913-1919 a total of 137 G 8.1, eleven of which were built by Henschel and the rest of Grafenstaden.

After the First World War remained ten locomotives in Germany and later received at the Deutsche Reichsbahn, the numbers 55 2946, 3338-3340, 4275-4279 and 4285th Another came in 1935 along with the 8.1 G of the Saar as 55 to 5665 Reichsbahn. It remained after the war ended 72 Prussian G 8.1 in Alsace-Lorraine are that have been added to the stock of the AL, the successor to the Imperial Railways. These additional 138 Prussian G 8.1 came from reparations. Some locomotives were passed on to the French Eastern Railway and the Algerian State Railways. The SNCF took over the G 8.1 as a series of 040 -D. The last G 8.1 in France, the 040- D -260 in 1966 was retired.

German Reichsbahn (1920-1945): Express train, passenger train, freight train, tender, narrow gauge locomotives

German Federal Railroad express train, passenger train, freight train, tender, narrow gauge locomotives

German Reichsbahn (1945-1993): Express train, passenger train, freight train, tender, narrow gauge locomotives

Regional railways: Baden · Bavaria · Mecklenburg · Oldenburg · Palatine · Prussia · Saxony · Württemberg · Alsace-Lorraine

  • Steam locomotive wheel arrangement D
  • Motor vehicle ( Alsace- Lorraine)
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