Unspecified 0-4-0 Locomotives in France

Class 119 (Locobase 7397)

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. 56 (cnum.cnam.fr/CGI/fpage.cgi?8XAE277-11.1/54/100/312/0/0 (accessed 1 September 2005) table.

The steam-tramway heyday was relatively short, but the 1878 Paris Exposition was well-timed to show many of the designs that were just then entering service in a number of cities. Exhibitor of this design was Harding, although Fives Lille actually built the little tram motor. The short tube reflects the small volume in the carriage occupied by the motive power.

Class 202 (Locobase 7394)

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. 55 (cnum.cnam.fr/CGI/fpage.cgi?8XAE277-11.1/54/100/312/0/0 (accessed 1 September 2005) table.

An assembly of small locomotives at the 1878 Exposition included this tiny agricultural engine. Its valve motion was described as ...conduite directe par excentrique a calage variable par engrenages." As far as Locobase can determine, this was a camshaft-driven transmission, perhaps similar to a Climax or Heisler.

Class 215 (Locobase 7383)

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.

The data show this to have been a small tank for industrial use.

Class 4 - CF d'Interet Local (Locobase 11327)

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 11,750 kg (25,904 lb).

Class CF d'Interet Local (Locobase 11332)

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 1865 French Law. This was Gouin's 2-axle tank.

Class catalogue tank Type 1 (Locobase 20222)

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.

See 20220 for a brief description of this industrial-locomotive builder.

The Type 1 was the lightest of Popineau's offerings in the catalogue with an empty weight of 5 tonnes and a 35-horsepower rating. Compared to the other two types, the Type 1 had smaller drivers, less cylinder volume, a smaller grate, and lower maximum speed of 12 kph (7.5 mph). Popineau's tonnage ratings ranged from 93 tonnes on the flat to 43 tonnes on a 1% grade, 18 tonnes on 3%, and 9 tonnes on 5%.

Class catalogue tank Type 2 (Locobase 20223)

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.

See 20220 for a brief description of this industrial-locomotive builder.

The Type 2 was the two-axle equivalent of the heavier Type 3 (Locobase 20220)in Popineau's catalogue. Lighter at 6 1/2 tonnes and rated at 45 horsepower, the Type 2 rolled on the same driver diameter, offered the same grate in a smaller, but still sizable firebox, was also rated to haul its load at 14 kph (8.7 mph) and had less cylinder volume. Popineau's tonnage ratings ranged from 131 tonnes on the flat to 61 tonnes on a 1% grade, 26 tonnes on 3%, and 14 tonnes on 5%.

Class unknown (Locobase 7392)

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. 55 (cnum.cnam.fr/CGI/fpage.cgi?8XAE277-11.1/54/100/312/0/0 (accessed 1 September 2005) table.

Even smaller than the agricultural locomotive Cail showed at the Exposition (and described in Locobase 7390), this minute engine may be as small as a multi-tubed boiler, Stephenson-valve-geared locomotive can get.