0-6-0 Steam Locomotives in France

Class 1 - CF d'Interet Local (Locobase 11324)

Data from Charles Alfred Opperman, Traite Complet des Chemins de Fer Economiques D' Interet Local (Paris: Imprimerie Pillet Fils Aine, 1873), pp. 150-152.

This relatively large locomotive is shown in a table of tank locomotives offered by Creusot (Schneider Works) for use on the chemins de fer d'Interet local. The table has the interesting data point of the weight of the locomotive when it arrives at its destination. For this locomotive, that figure was 31,300 kg.

Class 197 (Locobase 7385)

Data from Titre Exposition universelle internationale de 1878 a Paris. Rapports du jury internationale..Volume Groupe VI - Classe 64. Rapport sur le materiel des chemins de fer. p. 50 (cnum.cnam.fr/CGI/fpage.cgi?8XAE277-11.1/54/100/312/0/0 (accessed 1 September 2005) table and page 91.

Another six-coupled tank used in railroad construction (travaux de terrassement). Like the Cail locomotive shown in Locobase 7384, the center set of drivers was flangeless to decrease the locomotives minimum curvature radius. This was a considerably bigger engine the Cail Class 214.

Class 2 - CF d'Interet Local (Locobase 11325)

Data from Charles Alfred Opperman, Traite Complet des Chemins de Fer Economiques D' Interet Local (Paris: Imprimerie Pillet Fils Aine, 1873), pp. 150-152.

This locomotive is shown in a table of tank locomotives offered by Creusot (Schneider Works) for use on the chemins de fer d'Interet local. The table has the interesting data point of the weight of the locomotive when it arrives at its destination. For this locomotive, that figure was 29,000 kg.

Class 210 (Locobase 7386)

Data from Titre Exposition universelle internationale de 1878 a Paris. Rapports du jury internationale..Volume Groupe VI - Classe 64. Rapport sur le materiel des chemins de fer. p. 50 (cnum.cnam.fr/CGI/fpage.cgi?8XAE277-11.1/54/100/312/0/0 (accessed 1 September 2005) table and page 91.

Another metre-gauge six-coupled railroad construction (travaux de terrassement) locomotive. This was a little heavier than the Cail 214 class (Locobase 7384), but was some what less powerful.

Class 3 - CF d'Interet Local (Locobase 11326)

Data from Charles Alfred Opperman, Traite Complet des Chemins de Fer Economiques D' Interet Local (Paris: Imprimerie Pillet Fils Aine, 1873), pp. 150-152.

This locomotive is shown in a table of tank locomotives offered by Creusot (Schneider Works) for use on the chemins de fer d'Interet local. The table has the interesting data point of the weight of the locomotive when it arrives at its destination. For this locomotive, that figure was 22,500 kg.

Class CF d'Interet Local (Locobase 11333)

Data from Charles Alfred Opperman, Traite Complet des Chemins de Fer Economiques D' Interet Local (Paris: Imprimerie Pillet Fils Aine, 1873), pp.155.

Several builders offered what they hoped would be standard locomotives of some sort for the new rural, light-service railways that were to be built under an 1868 French Law.

This was Gouin's 3-axle tank, larger than its 2-axle stablemate (see Locobase 11333) and packing larger cylinders.

Class Catalogue engine (Locobase 13211)

Data from W H Maw and William Dredge, "Locomotives", Reports on the Vienna Universal Exhibition, Part II (London: George Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1874), p. 405-406.

Although Maw and Dredge don't say so, this appears to be a design intended for the light-railway network then being built in France. See Locobase 7384 for a very similar locomotive from 1878.

They point out that Fives-Lille offered locomotives in seven different weight classes ranging from this 14-(long) ton engine to one weighing 36 tons. Each locomotive would accept drivers of three different diameters. As often would be the case, the authors pronounced the general finish of this French design as "rough", but admitted "...the engine is nevertheless of a type which would no doubt do good service with moderate loads on the light lines for which it was intended."

Class La Parisienne (Locobase 2139)

Data from Gustav Reder (Michael Reynolds, trans), The World of Steam Locomotives (New York: Putnam, 1974), pp. 287, 389.

Illustrations of this "freak" (as many commentators characterized it) show a outsized engine. Everything is scaled up from a typical six-coupled of the time. Reder explained that the prejudice against carrying the boiler high while also advocating tall drivers led to this malproportioned beast by Etrade. Pointing out that leading with high drivers had already led to serious accidents, he also observed that the specially designed carriages would have relegated third-class passengers to the lower deck, where they "cannot have been very comfortable."

He doubted if the design ever actually ran before or after its appearance at the 1889 Paris Exposition.

Class catalogue tank Type 3 (Locobase 20221)

Data from "Doc en vrac. Les locomotives a vapeur Popineau" shown in Annonces des Annales des Ponts et Chaussees, III-1932, presented in Rails vagabonds blog entry for 05 fevrier 2015, last accessed 4 July 2017.

The blogger contends that this extract comes from a catalogue by an important builder of narrow-gauge locomotives. He adds that the designs showed many similarities to the better-known Decauville Progres series.

The Type 3 was the heaviest with an empty weight of 8 tonnes on three axles and was rated at 60 hp. Popineau's tonnage ratings ranged from 167 tonnes on the flat to 108 tonnes on a 1% grade, 34 tonnes on 3%, and 19 tonnes on 5%.

Class unknown (Locobase 15568)

Data from diagram Loco: 14, Societe Alsacienne de Constructions Mecaniques from locomotive book supplied by Dany Machi up at [] as

Diagrammes des machines SACM construites a GRAFENSTADEN (October 2007).

Tube diameter is the interior measurement; external diameter was 50 mm (1.97"). This may well be the earliest in a string of Madrid, Zaragoza y Alicante locomotives that had the same cylinder dimensions and driver diameter. It had a lower boiler pressure, smaller grate, smaller tender.

Class unknown (Locobase 15580)

Data from diagram UG Type 148, Societe Alsacienne de Constructions Mecaniques from SACM locomotive book supplied by Dany Machi up at [] as

Diagrammes des machines SACM construites a GRAFENSTADEN (October 2007).

Tube diameter is the interior measurement; external diameter was 45 mm. Similar to little tanks shown in Locobases 15523 and 15526.

Class unknown (Locobase 15585)

Data from diagram UG Type 167, Societe Alsacienne de Construction Mecaniques from SACM locomotive book supplied by Dany Machi up at [] as

Diagrammes des machines SACM construites a GRAFENSTADEN (October 2007).

Class unknown (Locobase 15587)

Data from diagram UG Type 202, Societe Alsacienne de Construction Mecaniques from SACM locomotive book supplied by Dany Machi up at [] as

Diagrammes des machines SACM construites a GRAFENSTADEN (October 2007).