Bavarian P 3/5 N

The steam locomotives of Class P 3/5 N of the Bavarian State Railroad were passenger locomotives.

A total of 36 locomotives of Class P 3/5 N were built 1905-1907 by Maffei. The P 3/5 N emerged from the Schnellzuglokomotive S 3/ 5 and had this as a four-cylinder compound engine. Compared to the S 3/5 P 3/5 N a smaller boiler at the same retarded cylinder size and smaller driving wheels had. The P 3/5 N could pull a 350 -ton train h in the plane at 80 km /.

Six locomotives were destroyed in the First World War; 17 more needed to be delivered as war reparations. The remaining 13 locomotives were taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn as Class 38.0. The S 3/6 had already supplanted the locomotives at this time of the high-quality train service.

After the positive experience with the type P 3/5 H from 1921, the later series 38.4, 1924 and 1925 all remaining P 3/5 N were converted from wet to hot steam operation between. The vehicles were nevertheless already retired 1932-1938; the last locomotive used was the 38 003

The vehicles were with Tender respondents the type bay 2'2 'T 18,2 equipped.

A total of 12 identical locomotives delivered Maffei from 1905 to the Bulgarian State Railways BDŽ who had already received eight locomotives according to the prototype of the predecessor series CV. The locomotives were classified into 08 BDŽ series and used by the BDŽ before high-quality trains up to the Simplon -Orient- Express.