0-4-0 Steam Locomotives in Germany

Class LVIIIk -Tramway (Locobase 5135)

Data fromwww.chiemsee-schifffahrt.de/main/chiemseebahn (August 2002). See also [], last accessed 23 July 2026. Works number was 1813 in 1887.

The Chiemseebahn was a narrow-gauge service from the Munich railway station to the port of the Chiemsee canal on the river in order to relieve roadway congestion. This little tramway locomotive was built to pull those 4-5 car trains and ran to a timetable.

When it first entered service, the boiler was pressed to 199.1 psi (14 bar). Compared to the 1957 upgrade shown in the specifications, the original kessel was smaller. Its grate measured 4.63 sq ft (0.43 sq m), its firebox area was 20.66 sq ft (1.92 sq m), and overall heating surface amounted to 253 sq ft (23.53 sq m). 1937 saw the replacement of the original copper firebox with a new one, also copper. Its latest boiler came from Arnold Jung in 1950.

At the turn of the 21st century, the locomotive remained in service for summer use, covering 5,000 km (3,310 mi) per year over the 1.8-km (1.1-mi) track and burning 25 tons of coal.

Visitors were transported by horse-drawn carriage to the harbour in Prien/Stock from Prien station 2 km away. The hustle and bustle quickly led to traffic chaos in Prien. In 1886, Ludwig Feáler and Georg Kraus therefore commissioned the main owner of the Krauss & Comp. locomotive factory in Munich to build a narrow-gauge railway from the station to the harbour.

Despite difficult land negotiations, construction work was able to commence on 2 May 1887. Chiemsee Railway was ceremoniously opened just 70 days later, on 9 July 1887, and officially began operating on Sunday 10 July 1887.

The initial ticket office was built on the national rail station forecourt - i.e. to the west. The then around 1.9 km long Chiemsee Railway route crossed the tracks of the national railway at the site of today's railway underpass in Seestraáe. This accident black-spot was only eliminated with the expansion of the national railway in winter 1908/09, when Chiemsee Railway was moved to its current location to the east of the national railway.

Using timber from the palace on Herreninsel, a large engine shed was built at the harbour in Stock, where the locomotives and carriages were housed until 2011 and any necessary repairs undertaken. The dilapidated shed was pulled down in 2011 when the harbour was redeveloped.

"At the beginning of its career",states the ChiemseeBahn website, "the Chiemsee Railway was a successful company that transported both people and goods. Coal arrived in Prien by rail, was shovelled into the two Chiemsee Railway goods wagons at the station and taken to Stock, where it either found its way into the fire boxes of the steam boats or was transported to Herreninsel where it was used to heat a brewery and the palace waterworks."

Surviving both World Wars, the ChiemseeBahn eventually succumbed to motorised alternatives.