Berlin-Hamburg 0-4-2 Locomotives in Germany


Class Details by Steve Llanso of Sweat House Media

Class Lubeck (Locobase 709)

Data from "Pluto", Editions Atlas Trains de Legend, #6 (1998).

Few successful 0-4-2s with outside cylinders were built (notably some of Nord's Rhone type). This sextet represents an "Intermediate Train Locomotive" built for the Berlin-and-Hamburg. Trains de Legend described this design as "certainly the most elegant 021 of its epoch." Moreover, placing the unpowered axle to the rear of the drivers supported the firebox without any need to adapt to a relatively high-placed powered axle.Moreover, the trailing axle helped to offset the "boxing" motion induced by the alternating fore-and-aft movements of outside cyilnders. Or so it was supposed.

The railwayrated the design's maximum speed as 75 kph (47 mph), indicating better riding qualities than earlier 0-4-2s built for the Prussian Eastern in 1856, but its outside, overhanging cylinders inevitably limited its rideability at higher speeds. Before too long, the B-H added leading axle, creating a 1B1 (2-4-2)

Principal Dimensions by Steve Llanso of Middle Run Media
ClassLubeck
Locobase ID709
RailroadBerlin-Hamburg
CountryPrussia
Whyte0-4-2
Number in Class6
Road Numbers
GaugeStd
Number Built6
BuilderBorsig
Year1865
Valve GearStephenson
Locomotive Length and Weight
Driver Wheelbase (ft / m)
Engine Wheelbase (ft / m)14.76 / 4.50
Ratio of driving wheelbase to overall engine wheelbase
Overall Wheelbase (engine & tender) (ft / m)
Axle Loading (Maximum Weight per Axle) (lbs / kg)
Weight on Drivers (lbs / kg)66,370 / 30,105
Engine Weight (lbs / kg)77,065 / 34,956
Tender Loaded Weight (lbs / kg)
Total Engine and Tender Weight (lbs / kg)
Tender Water Capacity (gals / ML)
Tender Fuel Capacity (oil/coal) (gals/tons / Liters/MT)
Minimum weight of rail (calculated) (lb/yd / kg/m)55 / 27.50
Geometry Relating to Tractive Effort
Driver Diameter (in / mm)59.70 / 1516
Boiler Pressure (psi / kPa)118.90 / 820
High Pressure Cylinders (dia x stroke) (in / mm)15.98" x 22.05" / 406x560
Tractive Effort (lbs / kg)9532 / 4323.65
Factor of Adhesion (Weight on Drivers/Tractive Effort) 6.96
Heating Ability
Tubes (number - dia) (in / mm)
Flues (number - dia) (in / mm)
Flue/Tube length (ft / m)
Firebox Area (sq ft / m2)
Grate Area (sq ft / m2)15.93 / 1.48
Evaporative Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)866 / 80.45
Superheating Surface (sq ft / m2)
Combined Heating Surface (sq ft / m2)866 / 80.45
Evaporative Heating Surface/Cylinder Volume169.19
Computations Relating to Power Output (More Information)
Robert LeMassena's Power Computation1894
Same as above plus superheater percentage1894
Same as above but substitute firebox area for grate area
Power L1
Power MT

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