2-6-0 Steam Locomotives in Spain

Class 1/4 (Locobase 4844)

According to [] (confirmed 14 May 2003), after the Ferrocarril de Soller (built on the island of Mallorca between Palma and Soller) began construction in 1907, its management soon purchased these Mogul tanks under a contract with MTM (works numbers 60-65). Each locomotive cost 43,000 pesetas. Names were Soller (1), Palma (2), Bunyola (3) and Son Sardina (4).

When the Soller was electrified in 1929, this quartet was mothballed for 15 years when the Mallorca Railway bought them.

Class 19 (Locobase 21268)

Data from Juan Peris Toner, "Ferrocarriles de Mallorca", posted 8 May 2012 on the Ferrocarrile de Espana website at [], last accessed 26 October 2025. See also Bertulo237, "Todas las locomotoras fabricadas por MTM hasta 1942", posted 17 Sep 2024 22:43. Works numbers were 82-84 in 1917.

Newly established heavy machinery company Maquina Terrestre y Maritimas operated in Barcelona, often viewed as the capital of Catalunya. It manufactured 600 steam locomotives, a total that included this trio of Mogul tanks bound for the Catalunyan island of Mallorca.

Locobase suspects the cylinder diameter figure is incorrect as it results in a stroke-to-bore ratio greater than 2.

Class 30 (Locobase 21267)

Data from Krupp im Dienst der Dampflokomotive (Essen, Germany: 1940), p 87. See also "Crónicas de la vía estrecha (XLII R): Railes por Mallorca (I): Ferrocarriles de Mallorca" (Chronicles of the narrow-gauge) posted 25 February 2018 on the Trenes y Tiempos website at []; and Juan Peris Toner, "Ferrocarriles de Mallorca", posted 8 May 2012 on the Ferrocarrile de Espana website at [], both last accessed 26 October 2025. Works numbers were 956-961 in July 1926.

Known as "Las Alemanas" (The Germans), this class of Mogul tanks featured a superheater, piston valves, and outside constant-lead radial valve gear. Tall, bulky tanks flanked the smokebox, boiler, and firebox. The very high superheater percentage shown suggest the tube heating surface area was calculated using the tubes' and flues' internal diameters.

Trenes y tiempos comments about this island's railway history (translated by Locobase):

"In the Spanish railway environment there has probably not been a recognition so open and clear of the importance of the railway of the island of Mallorca, a road that, in its moments of splendor, had no less that six narrow-gauge lines with a [combined] length about 300 km (186 miles)"

First projected in 1872, but plagued with discord, the railway failed to make headway until a new group formed the Ferrocarriles de Mallorca (Castillian Spanish). From its opening in 1876, the system expanded over the next 45 years as new lines built with British contractors and operating motive power supplied by British manufacturers. The FCdeM bought its first three Mogul tanks from Spanish builder MTM in 1917 followed nine years later by the sextet shown in this entry. Six 2-6-2Ts came from Spanish firm Babcock & Wilcox in 1931.