0-6-0 Steam Locomotives in Austria

Class II, IIa/302 (Locobase 21165)

Data from "Zum 75 Jahrigen Bestande der Sachsischen Maschinenfabrik, vormals Richard Hartmann, A G-Chemnitz", Die Lokomotive, Volume 10, Number 2 (February 1913), pp. 27-32; and "Aussig-Teplitz Railway classes IIa and IIb" on the Loco-info website at [], last accessed 13 February 2024. See also Josef Pospichal, "k.k. rpiv. Aussig-Teplitzer Eisenbahn (ATE)" at [], last accessed 11 February 2024, Sigl works numbers 424 in 1864 and 531, 618, 638 in 1867 .Hartmann works numbers were 429-431, 448, 478-480, 515-517 in 1870; 603-612 1872, 737-739 in 1874. Wiener-Neustadt works numbers were 2454-2455, 2567-2569 in 1880 and 3044-3046 in 1885.

Loco-info describes the six-coupled goods class as supporting the ATE's primary mission of transporting lignite from northern Bohemia. They necessarily used the wide-mouthed, Kobel spark-arrresting stacks to trap cinders, outside cylinders supplied by inside link motion, and solid disk drivers.

Obviously successful at their prescribed duty, 36 of the 37 remained in use when the ATE was taken into the newly nationalized Czech Railway system in 1924. The last of the class left the roster in 1938.

Class IIIa,/322.3 (Locobase 21166)

Data from "Zum 75 Jahrigen Bestande der Sachsischen Maschinenfabrik, vormals Richard Hartmann, A G-Chemnitz", Die Lokomotive, Volume 10, Number 2 (February 1913), pp. 27- 322; and "ATE IIIa" in Wikipedia at [], last accessed 13 February 2024. .See also Josef Pospichal, "k.k. rpiv. Aussig-Teplitzer Eisenbahn (ATE)" at [], last accessed 11 February 2024, Works numbers were 931-934 in 1858. Hartmann works numbers were 383 in 1869, 423-424, 429-431, 446-448 in 1870; 572-573 in1872, 735-736 in 1872

Faced with a decided lack of power in its 2-4-0s when they were confronted by the steep grades on the Aussig-Komotau line, the ATE changed the wheel arrangement on its passenger power to an all-adhesion six-coupled design. Similar in layout to the just-prior IIa/IIb engines (Locobase 21665), the IIIa rolled on taller drivers.

Like the IIs, the IIIa remained in service into the time of the 1924 establishment of the CSD. They were retired within a few years.

Class IIIb,/322.3/BR 53.74 (Locobase 21168)

Data from "Zum 75 Jahrigen Bestande der Sachsischen Maschinenfabrik, vormals Richard Hartmann, A G-Chemnitz", Die Lokomotive, Volume 10, Number 2 (February 1913), pp. 27- 322; and "ATE IIIb" in Wikipedia at [], last accessed 13 February 2024. .See also Josef Pospichal, "k.k. rpiv. Aussig-Teplitzer Eisenbahn (ATE)" at [], last accessed 11 February 2024, Works numbers were 931-934 in 1858. Hartmann works numbers were 3373-3380, 3337-3338, 3316-3317 in 1889, 3427-3430 in 1890, 3485-3489 in 1891, 3642-3645, 3673-3674 in 1893, and 3711-3712 in 1894.

Hartmann's IIIa class of six-coupled passenger locomotives (Locobase 21166) served the ATE for two decades before the railway ordered a freshened version that used a boiler set 1 atm higher. Other changes included fitting fewer boiler tubes of a larger diameter, slightly more grate area, and a modified stack with a smaller spark-arrester at its top.

Serving the Aussig-Komotau line as both passenger and heavy freight power, all but one of the class remained available when the CSD was stood up in 1924. About half the class was withdrawn in 1930s; the other half were taken into the Deutches Reichbahn when the Nazi government took over the Sudetenland in 1938.

German use and the exigencies of a war-stricken CSD (now the OBB) extended the 53.74s' careers for several years in the 1950s and, in one case, until 1964.