Portuguese Government 2-4-6-0 Locomotives in Portugal

Class E (Locobase 3636)

Data from Wiener (1930). See also [], the website of the Swiss rail preservation group La Traction

One of a very few articulated locomotive designs in which the two sets of drivers are not equal in number. This was a straightforward Mallet tank that was supplied to the Portuguese Railways in two separate years -- 1910 and 1923.(The later set of seven were somewhat smaller; see Locobase 9993.

Wiener (1930) comments on the unusual mixed arrangement and adds that the engines later had 2-axle tenders added to them. He wasn't certain this happened, and photographs from Ziel and Eagleson (1973) suggested the little tenders were later removed. Many remained in service in the late 1960s on mixed-traffic service.

Class E 211 (Locobase 9993)

Data from [], the website of the Groupe d'Etude pour les Chemins de fer de Provence.

Locobase 3636 shows the earlier set of oddly arranged Mallet tanks delivered to the CFP in 1910.

This current set of additional locomotives were had shorter boilers than those of the 1910 engines and slightly taller drivers. Some of the class remained in mixed-traffice service until 1981.

See also [], the website of the Swiss rail preservation group La Traction