2-8-0 Steam Locomotives in Ethiopia

Class 121 (Locobase 9968)

Data from JP Crozet's Franco-Ethiopian Railway site, [], last accessed on 21 February 2009. Works numbers were 6551-6559.

Class 131 (Locobase 9972)

Data from JP Crozet's Franco-Ethiopian Railway site, [], last accessed on 21 February 2009; and UG 185 "Locomotive surchauffe Type Consolidation" SACM Locomotive Diagrams supplied in 2013 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange collection. Works numbers were 7572-7577 in 1930; 7723-7725, 7729-7734, 7735-7740.

Belpaire firebox. Only the first six were named: GorT, Gondar, Djidjiga, Ankobar, DirT Dawa, and Addis-Abeba.

Class 25 (Locobase 9967)

Data from JP Crozet's Franco-Ethiopian Railway site, [], first accessed on 21 February 2009, later accessed at [], 16 September 2025Works numbers ran 6165-6172.

Engine 25 was named Brave and 26 took the name Invincible. Crozet noted SACM's Belfort works produced these cross-compound Consolidations based on the plans used for the earlier 2-8-0 delivered in 1909.

Class 401 (Locobase 9973)

Data from JP Crozet's Franco-Ethiopian Railway site, [], first accessed on 21 February 2009, later accessed at [], 16 September 2025; and "UG Type 174, Locomotive a surchauffe type Consolidation", SACM diagrams supplied in 2013 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange collection. Works numbers were 7451-7456 in 1927, 7541-7544 in 1929, and 7726-7728 in 1937.

Belpaire firebox. The first ten had names: Choa, Godjam, Aroussis, Wello, Djimma, Tchercher, Tigre, Kaffa, Sidamo, and Harrar. Crozet commented on a flaw "caused some trouble related to the very uneven loading of the driven axles", apparently referring to the three delivered in 1937. He added that the CFE expressed its "dissatisfaction" by buying six more locomoties from SLM of Winterthur, Switzerland.

The CFE's experience with American-built "MacArthur" metre-gauge engines led the railway to convert the entire 410 class to oil fuel.

Heating surface area in the specification uses the water-side diameter of 133 mm. When calculated based on the inner diameter of 125 mm, the tube heating surface area came to 85.55 sq m (921 sq ft) and total evaporative heating surface area 95.9 sq m (1,032 sq ft).