Andaluces 2-8-0 Locomotives in Spain

Class 140-2001 (Locobase 3366)

Data from [], the web site of the Spanish National Railway, Railway Age (1921, Vol 71, #27), pp. 1323-1324, and from [] (visited 28 April 2003). See also DeGolyer, Vol 60, pp. 324 and W A Cogan, "Locomotoras de los Ferrocarriles Andaluces", Ingeniniera Internacional, Vol 7, No 1 (Enero, 1922), pp. 45-46. Works numbers were 53361 in June 1920; 53368, 53395-53396, 53426-53428, 53478 in July; 53515, 53544-53545 in August.

Ordered on behalf of the Compagnie de Chemin de Fer de Andalous.

Based on an earlier British design, these Consolidations had Belpaire boilers that burned coal briquettes. The briquettes were made of 1/3 "best English coal, 1/3 lower grade Spanish coal, and the balance of coal dirt and a binder of asphaltum." Their cylinders were served by 9 1/2" (240 mm) piston valves. The fireboxes were made of arsenical copper.

These engines tackled the Alora-Gobantes division, which ascended continuously for 40 miles through several tunnels that leaked water on the tracks. Railway Age (1921, Vol 71, #27) said that locomotive 467 pulled 297 short tons up a ruling grade of 3% for 11.8 miles (19 km) and gained 11 minutes on the schedule.

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Class 140-2016 (Locobase 3367)

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

Like most British-built locomotives operating in Spain, the quintet had Belpaire fireboxes.

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Class 140-2021 (Locobase 3368)

Data from [] . According to Justo Arenillas, in "Las locomotoras belgas de Andaluces", Lineas Del Tren (as reproduced on [], viewed 28 April 2003)

According to Arenillas, these Consolidations were originally procured as eight-coupled, all-adhesion (0-8-0) engines. Eight were delivered by St Leonard in 1891 and ten came from French companies for the predecessor of the Cordoba a Belmez (CB) in 1872.

Four were converted by Andaluces at its Malaga shops in the first years of the 20th century. A change of plans, Arenillas terms it.

It is this quartet - two St Leonard, two French -- that was taken up by the RENFE in 1941.

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Class 140-2029 (Locobase 3371)

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

These were essentially repeats of the 1921 Baldwins supplied to the Andaluces (Locobase 3366). They had the same slab-sided Belpaire fireboxes. Their light axle loadings allowed to operate on all of the lines in Andalucia.

Unlike most of the classes that came into RENFE in 1941, this group remained intact right up to the days of dieselization in 1967.

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Class 451/140-2021 (Locobase 15874)

Data from MATERIAL MOTOR RENFE 1947 diagram book posted by carlos lavagoneta arroba and retrieved from Picasa [], last accessed 1 June 2014., p. 119.

These small, light superheated Consolidations helped fill in the Andaluces' motive power stud. They were manufactured using English (rather than metric) measurements, which suggests they came from a stock design.