Östra Skånes Järnvägar 2-6-0 Locomotives in Sweden

Class L21 (Locobase 20405)

Data from Litt. L21, one of a series of SJ locomotive diagrams archived by Anders Lundbing on [], last accessed 10 June 2017 and Tommy Nilsson's Svenska-lok.se website at Svenska-lok.se, last accessed 20 July 2018.

The four Moguls shown in this entry were originally produced with saturated boilers in 1900 by Nohab (works numbers were 563-566). The Ostra Skanes Railways (OSJ) put in them in Class G and assigned road numbers 14-17. The OSJ used them on the main line between Kristianstad and Eslov in the southern tip of Sweden. (The main line headed slightly northwest out of Kristianstadt to Hassleholm, then southwest to Eslov, located not far from Malmo on the coast.) Boiler pressure was set at 9.8 bar (142 psi).

Over the years, the OSJ took the original design, superheated the boiler and enlarged the cylinders to the Mogul standard 410 x 610 mm while keeping the inside motion. The first two locomotives kept their slide valves but the last two were fitted with piston valves. The Christianstadt-Hassleholm (CHJ) renumbered the quartet 37-40. By this time, their maximum speed was 75 kph (47 mph).

All four engines were taken into the Statens Jarnvagar in 1944 and redesignated L21. The 1669 was retired in 1948. The other three served into the 1960s, 1670 working longest before being retired in 1967. 1668 was preserved for display at the Kristianstadt Railway Museum.

(Inside tube and flue diameters yielded led to a tube heating surface area of 56.20 sq m (605 sq ft) and evaporative heating surface area of 64.15 sq m (690 sq ft))