Strade Ferrate Romane 4-4-0 Locomotives in Italy

Class 495 (Locobase 21044)

Data from "2/4 gek. Schnellzug-lokomotive fur normale Spurweite", Locomotiven, A Borsig (Tegel bei Berlin, 1898), archived on Historical Railway Images, Flickr, at [], p. 12, last accessed 8 July 2022. Works numbers were 3753-3758 in March 1881.

Described in the catalogue as a "fast express" locomotive, this sextet operated in northern Italy. (Locobase hasn't worked out why the Borsig production compilation identifies the railway as the Oberschlesische, which translates as Upper Schleswig.)

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Class 61 (Locobase 6235)

Data from users.libero.it/allesandro.tuzza/fonti/sfr/1879sfrindice.htm (8 July 2004), an 1878 album of locomotives for the SFR reproduced by Allesandro Tuzza. (later cite: [], Tavola 5)

These were two Norris engines with non-sequential works numbers (351 & 358). they had the classic Norris look of haystack firebox behind a long boiler with the two carrying axles clumped together under the stack. The inclined cylinders drove on the first axle.