Bavarian D VI

The locomotives of the type D VI were light, zweigekuppelte wet steam tank locomotives of the Bavarian State Railways. Maffei delivered from 1880 to 1883, the first 30 locomotives, 23 more were delivered by Krauss in 1894.

History

The locomotives of the type D VI were flatter for local rail lines with a maximum axle load of 12 tonnes procured.

The first 44 locomotives had no lateral reservoir. The water was placed in a frame of water tank and the coal in the cab. The last nine locomotives, however, were made ​​with short reservoir on both sides ahead of the cab. This means that the water supply of 1.8 increased to 2.3 m and the carbon stock of 0.5 to 0.8 t.

In the 1920s, some were D VI in the Palatinate as a ship's bridge locomotives at Speyer and Maximiliansau in use.

The German Reichsbahn took over in 1925 as a series 98.75 or 26 vehicles, including five with lateral reservoirs. They were decommissioned by the end of the 1920s and partially sold as factory locomotives.

The locomotive No. 83 "mountain" (98 7508 ), 1883 delivered by Krauss was last used in a peat factory in Raubling and in 1964 divorced from the service. This machine has been preserved as a single copy of its series and is in the care of DGEG.

Design features

The locomotives D VI was performed with a riveted and also designed as water box sheet metal frame.

The boiler barrel is riveted of two sections, the firebox with a square cross-section is located between the side frames to. Two steam jet pumps have been designed for boiler feed.

The outer two-cylinder wet steam engine was equipped with a Stephenson valve; as a driving axle was chosen the second set of wheels.

For the first time in Bavarian locomotives were at the D VI circulation sheets and Luftsaugbremsen type Hardy, but sometimes also used Westinghouse air brakes. Some specimens also possessed over walkways; unusual at the time was the arrangement of the sand boxes below the footplate between the driving axles.

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