Zafra a Huelva 2-4-0 Locomotives in Spain

Class 1/120-2091 (Locobase 3335)

Data from [], the web site of the Spanish National Railway (link no longer active.). 1947 diagram book available online at [], last accessed 26 December 2022. See also Justo Arenillas in "La material ingles en las pequenas companias", Lineas Del Tren (as reproduced on [], viewed 28 April 2003); and http://[] (17 May 2003), website of the Asociacion de Amigos del Ferrocarril Cuenc Mineral de Rio Tinto. Works numbers were 1854-1859 in 1887.

We're told that the railway was authorized in 1881 to provide a north-south public-use line that would serve many of the mines in Huelva province of Southwestern Spain. (Huelva is an Atlantic port located about 25 miles from the Portuguese border; Zafra is about 75 miles northeast of Huelva.) When the ZH opened, the railway contracted with Dubs to supply three batches of locomotives, each in a different arrangement. These 2-4-0s were the passenger engines.

Mines such as El Carpio, San Telmo, Lomero, Cueva de la Mora, La Joya, San Miguel had narrow-gauge lines that connected with the ZH at Valdelamusa or at the "whistle-stop (apeadero) of Tamujoso. Originally authorized in 1881, financing fell through. British interests came up with the necessary funds in 1884 and Valdelamusa-Huelva opened in 1886 with the Valdelamusa-Zafra section following in 1889.