Engerth locomotive

The locomotives were Engerth Supports tender locomotives that were designed following the competition for the cheapest to operate on the Semmering Railway construction of locomotives under the direction of William of Engerth.

Since none of the four winners of locomotives of the Semmering contest was suitable for practical operation to the Semmering Railway, the design of the " BAVARIA " has been modified. The new design called for three coupled axles, which had been stored under the boiler barrel of the vehicle. The two-wheeled Tender was hinged to the left and right next to the firebox to the main frame, whereby a portion of the boiler weight was transferred to the Tender ( "Support Locomotive "). The carbon stock was in the tender, the water supply on installed next to the boiler barrel containers. In order to make the adhesion weight of the tender available at four of the erstgelieferten machine a gear coupling between the axes of the main frame and the tender was attached. Later also a chain or belt couplings have been tested for this purpose. However, none of these couplings proven in practical use, so they were all removed.

A disadvantage of this design is argued that the weight of water decreased in the attached next to the boiler barrel water tanks while driving and therefore not permanent stood for the adhesive weight available. This must not maintained that this is the one is a type- related appearance of all tender locomotives and by the typical Engerth - design, the weight of the water tank capacity far mostly to another on the non-driven first Supports Ender axis.

The first 26 locomotives were Engerth Cockerill in Seraing and by Maschinenfabrik Esslingen in 1853 to the Imperial Southern State Railways supplied ( SSTB - Green Schacher to Sonnwendstein ). Replicated with larger driving wheels in 1854, they were also used for passenger trains on the Semmering route and for freight trains in the lowlands.

Engerth locomotives were built for the Swiss Railways (VSB Ec 2/5, VSB Eb 2/5), the water tank, however, was firmly attached to the base frame adjacent to the boiler. Also purchased the French Northern Railway and the French Eastern Railway Engerth locomotives, but had four mounted under the boiler barrel axes. The French machines were soon converted into normal eight-coupled locomotives with standard tenders. The Austrian Southern Railway, which owns the Southern State Railways had come to their privatization, most of their großrädrigen Engerth locomotives built after this model also in eight-coupled machines with standard tenders to. Some of these former Engerth locomotives were in Austria until the 1930s in use.

In Germany, the Bavarian C II and III the Saxon K Engerth locomotives.

SB 210

VSB Eb 2/5

Saxon III K

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