DRG Class 99.19

The DRG Class 99.19 engines were metre gauge, ten-coupled, superheated, steam locomotives that were employed in the southwestern German state of Württemberg from 1927.

DRG Class 99.19
99 193 on the Blonay-Chamby Railway in 2014
Number(s)99 191–194
Quantity4
ManufacturerMaschinenfabrik Esslingen
Year(s) of manufacture1927
Retired1967
Wheel arrangement0-10-0T
Axle arrangementE h2t
TypeK 55.9
Track gauge1,000 mm (3 ft 3 38 in)
Length over buffers8,436 mm (27 ft 8 14 in)
Height3,550 mm (11 ft 7 34 in)
Width2,450 mm (8 ft 716 in)
Wheelbase1,860 mm (6 ft 1 14 in)
Overall wheelbase3,720 mm (12 ft 2 12 in)
Empty weight33.6 tonnes (33.1 long tons; 37.0 short tons)
Service weight43.5 tonnes (42.8 long tons; 48.0 short tons)
Adhesive weight43.5 tonnes (42.8 long tons; 48.0 short tons)
Axle load8.7 tonnes (8.6 long tons; 9.6 short tons)
Top speed30 km/h (19 mph)
Starting tractive effort76.15 kN (17,120 lbf)
Coupled wheel diameter800 mm (31 12 in)
Driving wheel diameter800 mm (2 ft 7 12 in)
Valve gearHeusinger
No. of cylindersTwo
Cylinder bore430 mm (16 1516 in)
Piston stroke400 mm (15 34 in)
Boiler length3,235 mm (10 ft 7.4 in)
Boiler Overpressure14 bar (1.40 MPa; 203 psi)
No. of heating tubes79
No. of smoke tubes18
Heating tube length3,240 mm (10 ft 7 12 in)
Grate area1.60 m2 (17.2 sq ft)
Radiative heating area5.58 m2 (60.1 sq ft)
Tube heating area58.20 m2 (626.5 sq ft)
Superheater area24.50 m2 (263.7 sq ft)
Evaporative heating area63.77 m2 (686.4 sq ft)
Water capacity4.66 m3 (1,030 imp gal) or 4,330 litres (950 imp gal; 1,140 US gal)
FuelCoal: 2.5 tonnes (2.5 long tons; 2.8 short tons)

In fact this class was to have been procured by the Royal Württemberg State Railways (Königlich Württembergische Staats-Eisenbahnen) as the Class Ts 5, however the intervention of the First World War and the serious economic situation that followed put paid to that.

In 1927 the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft ordered the construction of four of these locomotives from the Maschinenfabrik Esslingen. They were based on a Saxon VI K prototype that already ran on Württemberg's 750mm routes and replaced some ancient Klose locomotives that worked the metre gauge route between Altensteig and Nagold.[1] They were given operating numbers 99 191 - 99 194.

To negotiate the tight curves the first, third and fifth axles were given side play.

Engine number 99 191 was redeployed on 1 April 1944 to work the line between Eisfeld and Schönbrunn. In 1955 it was used in Gera. In the 1970s there was a plan to sell it to a museum railway, but the sale did not come to fruition and the engine was scrapped.

Locomotive number 99 192 was retired on 5 May 1959. Number 99 193 was retired on 30 November 1967 and was transferred into the ownership of EUROVAPOR, where it is used on the Blonay-Chamby museum railway in Switzerland. It was still there in 2007. There are various accounts of the whereabouts of 99 194. It probably ended up in Yugoslavia after the Second World War and was in service there until the late 1960s with the Yugoslav Railways ().

The engines could hold 2.5 tonnes of coal and 4.66 m2 of water.

See also

References

  1. Ransome-Wallis, P (1971). Preserved Steam Locomotives of Western Europe, Volume One. Ian Allan Ltd. ISBN 0-7110-0196-0. p 310
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