BLE No. 44

BLE 44
DRB 79 001 (2nd)
Type and origin
Power type Steam
Builder Krupp
Serial number 1423
Build date 1934
Total produced 1
Specifications
Configuration 2-8-2T
UIC class 1′D1′ h2t
Gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Leading dia. 900 mm (2 ft 11 3⁄8 in)
Driver dia. 1,350 mm (4 ft 5 1⁄8 in)
Trailing dia. 900 mm (2 ft 11 3⁄8 in)
Length 12,370 mm (40 ft 7 in)
Axle load 14.8 tonnes (14.6 long tons; 16.3 short tons)
Adhesive weight 59.1 tonnes (58.2 long tons; 65.1 short tons)
Loco weight 88.3 tonnes (86.9 long tons; 97.3 short tons)
Boiler pressure 14 kg/cm2 (1.37 MPa; 199 psi)
Cylinders Two
Performance figures
Maximum speed 75 km/h (47 mph)
Career
Operators
Numbers
  • BLE: 44
  • DRB: 79 001 (2nd)
  • DEG: 261
Retired March 1973

Locomotive No. 44 of the Brunswick State Railway (BLE) was a tank locomotive for mixed passenger and goods traffic. The locomotive, built in 1934 by Krupp, had a 2-8-2T wheel arrangement and a two-cylinder superheated engine. Leading and trailing wheels were housed in a Bissel bogie. Rather unusual for such a locomotive were the smoke deflectors which were attached directly to the side tanks and extended as far as the front buffer beam.

After the takeover of the BLE by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1938, the engine was given the running number 79 001, re-using a number previously given to a Saxon XV HTV that had been retired in 1933.

The engine survived the Second World War and was sold to the Deutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (DEG), and sent to their Braunschweig-Schöninger Eisenbahn (BSE) in 1947. It was transferred to the Frankfurt-Königsteiner Eisenbahn (FKE) in 1949, the Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn (TWE) in 1960, and then returned to the FKE in 1966. It was retired there in 1973.

The running number 79 001 was allocated in 1951 to the former French locomotive, 1-242.TA.602, which had ended up in German hands after the war.

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