Danske Statsbaner 4-6-2 Locomotives in Denmark

Class E (Locobase 2478)

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Repeats based on the original builder's drawings of the Swedish Class F Pacifics (Locobase 2477), 11 of which had been sold to Denmark in 1936. In Danish service, these engines had a tonnage rating of 650 tons on a 0.7% grade.

Class E (1) (Locobase 4031)

Data from William Bay, Danmarks Damplokomotiver (1977). works numbers were 314-319 in 1942-1943, 336-341 in 1944, 346-352 in 1947, and 413-418 in 1950.

A photo from Jens Vesterdahl's website ([]) shows a trim Pacific with sloping outside HP cylinders driving the second axle.

Class Pr (II) (Locobase 4033)

Data from William Bay, Danmarks Damplokomotiver (1977). See also Jernbane.dk at [], last accessed 2 June 2015.

Class Pr 904 (Locobase 4032)

Data from William Bay, Danmarks Damplokomotiver (1977). See also Jernbane.dk at [], last accessed 2 June 2015.

During its years under German control in World War Two, the DSB realized that they needed more adhesion in the locomotives pulling their expresses. And they knew they wouldn't be able to order new equipment. So Copenhagen shops retained the frame from the P-class 4-4-2s, used the firebox already installed in the H and R classes, trailing auxiliary axle from the O and S classes and created the Pacific shown here.

Tests of the 904 in 1943 were sufficiently encouraging that the railway went ahead and converted the 930. For the first few years, the conversion looked like a flop because the boilers didn't generate enough steam. Jernbane,dk reports that postwar studies showed simply that inexperienced stokers and poor coal starved the firebox of the calories it needed. As peace liberated Denmark, coal quality improved, and the stokers received better training, the class performed up to their promise.