Class 030-2215 (Locobase 3429)

Data from [], the web site of the Spanish National Railway.

This octet of six-coupleds followed the 51-56 (Locobase 3428) into service a year later. Equipped with the same power dimensions as the earlier engines, this set had bigger fireboxes. Locobase suspects that this batch in fact had 198 tubes, but the RENFE diagrams makes no distinction between this boiler and the earlier, smaller one in tube count or length.

Class 030-2577 (Locobase 5519)

Data from []

, the web site of the Spanish National Railway (19 March 2004). (Thanks to Claus Gaertner for his 17 March 2021 email providing the proper transliteration of the builder's name.)

The accompanying photograph shows a Belpaire firebox on this sturdy and powerful six-coupled. The class was delivered in three batches, differing only in tender size.

Numbers Year Water capcy EW LW

454-465 1882 5 (1,321) 9,797 17,800

(21,600) (39,242)

466-477 1883 8 (2,112) 10,320 21,320

(22,752) (47,002)

478-485 1886 9 (2,376) 11,400 23,400

(29,762) (68,233)

RENFE assigned 030-2577 as the lead engine number.

Class 201/30-2261 (Locobase 3433)

Data from [] . See also Pere Comas, Breve Historia de la Traccion Vapor en MZA, Trensim TS10H002, Julio de 2011,p. 11-12; and Schneider Catalogue,Type 46, last accessed 27 August 2018 at [], p. 16. Works numbers were 560-569 in 1861, 594-604 in 1862, 702-716 in 1864.

These freight locomotives were based on the French Bourbonnais class (Locobase 599) and were put into service on the Alicante line. Schneider of Le Creusot supplied dozens of locomotives to the MZA and railway employees distinguished between these "Creusot Mercancias" and the passenger-carrying "Creusot Viajeros". Grafenstaden also supplied engines in this class;see Locobase 15569.

A successful design, the Creusot Mercancias ranged freely over all of the MZA's lines and hauled freight trains up to the end of the 19th century.

As was not uncommon on Spanish railways, many of these locomotives were in their eighth decade when absorbed by the RENFE in 1941. That railway used them primarily as shunters (switchers), but some could be seen on freight trains into the 1950s.

Class 209 (Locobase 20329)

Data from [], the web site of the Spanish National Railway. visited 21 April 2003; and Pere Comas, Breve Historia de la Traccion Vapor en MZA, Trensim TS10H002, Julio de 2011,p. 34,

As with the locomotives delivered to the Llerida and described in Locobase 3419, this quartet originally comprised part of the ten-engine order produced for the Memphis, El Paso & Pacific in the United States. Apparently the MEP&P couldn't pay for the set, so Koechlin found buyers in three Spanish railways of the same gauge. Comas says the price was too good to pass up.

Then TBF realized that locomotives designed for the American west offered ill-suited proportions for their operations. The drivers were too tall for freight, but the boiler was too small for passenger service. Only two remained to be taken into the MZA and neither of these were given RENFE class IDs.

Class 237/030-2295 (Locobase 15569)

Data from diagram Loco: 19, Societe Alsacienne de Constructions Mecaniques from locomotive book supplied by Dany Machi up at [] as

Diagrammes des machines SACM construites a GRAFENSTADEN (October 2007). See also Pere Comas, Breve Historia de la Traccion Vapor en MZA, Trensim TS10H002, Julio de 2011, pp. 11-12. Locobase estimates that the works numbers were 192-193, 196-200 in 1862, 299-300 (road numbers 239-240) in 1864.

Tube diameter is the interior measurement; external diameter was 50 mm (1.97"). Although similar to the six-coupled shown in Locobase 15568, this design's boiler was set to an even lower pressure.

NB: Locobase use the Comas listing of MZA locomotives and the similarities in design to place this design among the several dozen 0-6-0s that would later be grouped by RENFE in class 030-2261 (Locobase 3433).

Class 246/030-2013 (Locobase 3411)

Data from [], the web site of the Spanish National Railway, which lists Kitson & Co, E B Wilson, Cail, and Cockerill as builders. See also Comas, Breve Historia

E B Wilson's works numbers for the first set as 607-619 in 1857, 620-626 in 1858. Of these, all but 619-621, 623-624 were taken into the RENFE in 1941.

Kitson's batch included works numbers 599-603, 609-613, 625-629, 645-649 in 1858. The engines given RENFE's 030-2028 a 030-2040 were 599-601, 603, 613, 626-625, 645-646, and 648-649.

Cail's works numbers were 624-643 in 1858 and 661-670 in 1859. The following took RENFE numbers 030-2013 a 030-2059: 625-626, 628-629, 631-634, 637-638, 640-641, 643, 661-663, 665, and 667-668.

Representative of the inside-cylinder six-coupled "Longboiler." This version was introduced on the Madrid-Zaragoza-Alicante in 1857, but the type was first tried on the York-and-Midland in 1843. In Great Britain, they were used primarily on coal-hauling roads. In France, this engine type was known as "Mammouth,"and over 600 were built for French railroads. Later engines had flush fireboxes and no domes. The 246, which is preserved, represents a half-way point in this stripping down. In its first 100 years of service, the engine travelled 1.6 million miles (2.58 million km).

Class 317/030-2116 (Locobase 3421)

Data from [], the web site of the Spanish National Railway. Works numbers were 750-753 in 1868 and 843-846 in 1871.

This builder was the predecessor to the Avonside Engine Company. This design was a "new type" of 0-6-0 when it was delivered in 1868. One feature was likely the relatively long wheelbase.

They were the only engines serving the B-F that also operated on the Tarragona, Barcelona y Francia; the Madrid, Zaragoza y Alicante; and ultimately RENFE. Based at MTrida, the class was scrapped between 1955 and 1958.

Class 325/030-2304 (Locobase 3434)

Data from [], the web site of the Spanish National Railway. See also Pere Comas, Breve Historia de la Traccion Vapor en MZA, Trensim TS10H002, Julio de 2011,p. 11-12. Graffenstaden supplied the first fourteen from works numbers 289-298 in 1864 and 325-328 in 1865. Schneider-Creusot works numbers were 779-786 in 1864 and 787-821 in 1865.

This is another batch of locomotives originally supplied to the MZA as part of a large class of engines based on the French Bourbonnais 0-6-0 (Locobase 599). Locobase 3435 continues the class with a later batch built in 1879.

Class 365/030-2340 (Locobase 3435)

Data from [], the web site of the Spanish National Railway. Grafenstaden works numbers were 2810-2823 in 1879 followed by Sharp, Stewart works numbers 2822-2833, also in 1879. (Locobase must comment on the unusually parallel sets of works numbers assigned by two firms, one Franco-German, the other English, in the same year.)

The MZA returned to Grafenstaden in 1879 for more six-couple locomotives of the same design as those delivered in 1864-1865 (Locobase 3434). In the interim, Graffenstaden's works had been taken into the German Reich after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Renamed in German as the ElsSssische Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Grafenstaden, the works lost an "f".

The entire class was taken into RENFE over forty years later.

Class 401/030-2209 (Locobase 3428)

Data from [], the web site of the Spanish National Railway. Works numbers were 2232-2237, 2271-2278 in 1878. See also "Locomotora 0-3-0/2-2 - 2214 - a'o 1878 Ferrocarril en Zamora", 12 December 2009, [] . This class originally was based on the French Bourbonnaise type of all-adhesion six-coupled, even being painted in the light gray favored by French operators. A later batch of eight had slightly larger boilers and fireboxes; see Locobase 3429.

The class almost immediately rolled into the Madrizd, Zaragoza y Alicante's much larger stud. They had relatively tall drivers for an all-adhesion engine of these dimensions and operated primarily in local passenger service.

Class 401/442/030-2388 (Locobase 3441)

Data from [], the web site of the Spanish National Railway. See also Pere Comas, Breve Historia de la Traccion Vapor en MZA, Trensim TS10H002, Julio de 2011,p. 86; and MATERIAL MOTOR RENFE 1947 diagram book posted by carlos lavagoneta arroba and retrieved from Picasa [], last accessed 1 June 2014., p. 90. Works numbers were 1555-1559 in 1881.

The design showed its early 1880s origins and Bourbonnais influence with a dome near the stack and a long boiler. The three driving axles were spaced unevenly with the two rear axles closely bunched just ahead of the firebox and the front axle located 40% further away from the second axle.

Like many Spanish locomotives, these engines had long lives, easily attaining 70 years

Class 406/435/030-2479 (Locobase 3449)

Data from [], the web site of the Spanish National Railway. See also Pere Comas, Breve Historia de la Traccion Vapor en MZA, Trensim TS10H002, Julio de 2011,p. 86; and MATERIAL MOTOR RENFE 1947 diagram book posted by carlos lavagoneta arroba and retrieved from Picasa [], last accessed 1 June 2014., p. 90. Works numbers were 1244-1246 in 1883, 1247-1250 in 1885.

This set of seven six-coupleds joined the very similar Dubs & Company engines shown in Locobase 341. Whereas the Dubs engines were described as Bourbonnais type engines, these were deemed part of the Creusot Mercancias design. They had larger boilers and more cylinder volume, but a grate area only marginally bigger than those of the Dubs.

The Madrid, Zaragoza, & Alicante (MZA) took over the AaC and renumbered this class. Like most Spanish freight engines

Class 415/030-2231 (Locobase 3431)

Data from [], the web site of the Spanish National Railway. See also Pere Comas, Breve Historia de la Traccion Vapor en MZA, Trensim TS10H002, Julio de 2011,pp. 11-12. Works numbers were 427-446 in 1883.

These Belgian engines finished off the 140-locomotive stud that were collectively known as "Creusot Mercancias".