LDE – Richard Hartmann to Zwickau

The RICHARD HARTMANN to ZWICKAU Express Train locomotives of the Leipzig- Dresden Railway Company were ( LDE).

History

The three locomotives were delivered in 1849 by Hartmann in Chemnitz with the factory numbers 11 to 13 to the LDE. They were given the name RICHARD HARTMANN, Chemnitz and Zwickau.

The locomotives were retired between 1865 and 1868.

Technical Features

The boiler was riveted from several shots. The firebox was fitted with a semicircular, far above the boiler barrel protruding dome that served in place of a steam dome as a vapor collection chamber. The two Federwaag safety valves were located on the dome of the standing boiler.

The steam cylinders were arranged in contrast to the British locomotives outside, which made it expensive and difficult to prepare goiter axis unnecessary. The steam engine was equipped with an internal Stephenson 's link motion.

A separate brake equipment did not have the locomotives. The deceleration was only on the hand-operated spindle brake of the tender.

The locomotives had the Kirchwegersche Abdampfkondensationseinrichtung to preheat the feed water. Exterior feature of this is the second chimney on the tender. Through a deep, about 100 mm thick connecting line of the exhaust steam was led by the valve body to the tender.

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