Réseau Breton 4-6-0 tank locomotives

The Ouest 230 TE 321 to E 332 of the Réseau Breton ( RB) are meter gauge tank locomotives with the wheel arrangement 2'C (4- 6- 0T).

The machines that are capable of a towing capacity of 230 tons in the plane to pull at a speed of 55 kilometers per hour, were after her delivery in 1904 and 1909 on the railway network of the Réseau Breton in use. The scheduled service they were until 1967, when their original routes were umgespurt to standard gauge or converted to bus operation.

History

On the route network of the Réseau Breton tender locomotives were used with the wheel arrangement 1'C (2- 6- 0T) originally. These were later supplemented by Mallet locomotives with the wheel arrangement (C) C (0 -6-6 -0T ). With the 2'C tank locomotives was intended to combine the speed of 1'C tank locomotives with the high performance of Mallet locomotives to be able to use this in the fast passenger.

Although the locomotives were originally intended for use on the railway lines of Loudéac to La Brohinière and Carhaix after Châteaulin, they were used on the entire network.

The first five locomotives, the E 321 to E 325, were created in 1904 by the Société Franco -Belge in Raismes with the serial numbers from 1443 to 1447.

Since the conception of the tender locomotives was successful, were seven other identical locomotives, the E 326 to E 332, created in 1909 by the Compagnie de Fives -Lille pour constructions mecaniques et entreprises with the serial numbers 3581-3587.

2011, two locomotives from the contract section of Fives -Lille get operational.

The E 327 was originally obtained by the Chemin de Fer du Vivarais. However, it was for the corresponding route network that only an axle load of eight tons of permits, not suitable. Today the 1997 is part of the French Chemins de Fer de Provence over turned Tender locomotive of the Fédération de Amis des Chemins de Fer Second Aires, and is stationed in Annot. There she is employed on the railway line Nice- Digne before the Train des Pignes.

The E 332 1968 2 3 adopted by the Swiss Blonay -Chamby along with the cars ABCFZ4 15 and AB4 90 and the trolley Dm 2 /, which she also started initially. Since it was less suitable for up to 50 per thousand steep railway Blonay -Chamby, it was later only issued and sold to the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme in 2003. This, she worked on operational since 2009 and puts them back in the heritage railway operation a.