JNR Class 4110

The Class 4110 (4110形) is a class of 0-10-0 steam locomotive built by the Japanese Government Railways (JGR). A total of 39 locomotives were built by Kawasaki Shipyard (present-day Kawasaki Heavy Industries), as copies of the earlier Class 4100 0-10-0T locomotives imported from Maffei in Germany in 1912.[1]

Class 4110
Type and origin
Power typeSteam
BuilderKawasaki Shipyard
Build date1914
Total produced39
Specifications
Configuration:
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 • Whyte0-10-0T
 • UICE
Performance figures
Maximum speed35-65 Mph
Career
Retired1950 (Japan) 1972-1976 (Korea)1975-1980 (Taiwan)
Withdrawn1950
Preserved1
Scrapped1950 (Japan) 1969-1976 (Korea) 1975-1980 (Taiwan)

A total of five were converted to standard gauge and sent to Korea in 1939, four to the Pyeongbuk Railway and one to the Danpung Railway.[2] After the partition of Korea in 1945, all five locomotives were taken over by the Korean State Railway of North Korea, but their subsequent fate is unknown be it was assumed that they were scrapped around between 1969 and 1976 . Some 4110s were sent to Taiwan during the occupation period. In 1945, all of them were classified as Taiwan Railways class EK900. None of them have preserved all of the EK900’s were scrapped between 1975 and 1980 .

Preserved examples

One Class 4110 remains in preservation: 4122 in Ebetsu, Hokkaido.[3]

  • The Class 4100 steam locomotive built by Maffei in Germany

See also

References
  • Steam Loco in Japan (Jokei Kikansha style book). Kigei Publishing Company. 1963.
  • RM Pocket 6: 日本の蒸気機関車 [RM Pocket 6: Steam locomotives of Japan]. Neko Publishing Company. 1994.
  1. Inoue, Kōichi (1999). 国鉄機関車辞典 [JNR Locomotive Encyclopedia] (in Japanese). Japan: Sankaido. p. 18. ISBN 4-381-10338-6.
  2. Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), p. 66 ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6
  3. Sasada, Masahiro (25 November 2014). 国鉄&JR保存車大全2015-2016 [JNR & JR Preserved Rolling Stock Complete Guide 2015-2016] (in Japanese). Tokyo, Japan: Ikaros Publications Ltd. ISBN 978-4863209282.
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