Alicante a Murcia / Andaluces 0-6-0 Locomotives in Spain

Class 100/030-0208 (Locobase 5963)

Data from []

, the web site of the Spanish National Railway (19 Mar 2004). Works number was 470.

A later and larger six-coupled tank in Spanish service. RENFE's 1941 classification was 030-0208.

Class 168 / 030-2505 (Locobase 3454)

Data from listing of RENFE data originally from their website and captured before the pages disappeared from the site. Text version in Locobase's files. See also [] . Works numbers were 979-980 in 1877, 1084-1087 in 1881, 1128-1129 in 1883.

Described by OS Nock (RWC II, pl 70) as "'dumpy'", these little freight engines proved quite durable. Nock credits them with being the "mainstay of intermediate freight motive power".

They had full cabs, straight boilers, tall steam dome just ahead of the cab and a tall stack. Nock comments on their longevity: "...[T]he tempo of railway operation in Andalusia is not exactly brisk, and their long lives may well have been equally a measure of their gentle treatment as of their good design and construction."

A later set of duplicates arrived in 1901-1902; see Locobase 3455.

Class 51/030-2062 (Locobase 3413)

Data from [], the web site of the Spanish National Railway. See also Ferrocarriles de Espana por Juan Peris Torner at [] (

[], last accessed 31 May 2014. Le Creusot works numbers were 449-456 in 1860.

Six were retired before 1941 with only 53 and 56 taken into RENFE. Eight others delivered by Hartmann in 1883 (Locobase 3414) had the same power dimensions and were grouped by RENFE under the same class.

Class 68 /030-2542 (Locobase 3455)

Data from [] . See also [] . Works numbers were 2634-2643 in 1901 and 2743-2747 in 1902.

As often happened in Spanish railroading, a satisfactory design (such as the six-coupleds described in Locobase 3454) led to further orders more than two decades later. This later batch of 2505s, which differed mostly in weight and a slightly larger barrel diameter.

Class 91/030-2064 (Locobase 3414)

Data from [], the web site of the Spanish National Railway. See also [] and Ferrocarriles de Espana por Juan Peris Torner at []

[] . Works numbers were 1271-1278 in 1883.

This set of eight six-coupleds joined eight others delivered by Le Creusot in1860 (Locobase 3414) with the same power dimensions and heating surface areas. Six were scrapped before the RENFE was opened in 1941. One was grouped by RENFE under the same class as the two earlier engines.