Bergslagernas JSrnvSg 2-8-0 Locomotives in Sweden

Class M3s/E11 (Locobase 20407)

Data from Litt E11, 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. . Works numbers were 355-357 in 1930.

The success of the 1927 Bergslagernas three-cylinder Ten-wheelers shown in Locobase 4836 and the upgrading of the right of way allowed the BJ to order three goods locomotives with even larger boilers and grates. In fact, it was one of the largest non-North American Consolidations designs to enter service anywhere. With lots of superheat, good proportions for the boiler, firebox, and grate, and 250 mm (9.84") piston valves feeding each cylinder, the engines nevertheless weighed in with axle loadings of under 18 metric tons.

The trio's main duty was serving the +msl-Goteborg line, which ran down the western side tof Vanern Lake, then east to Vara, southeast to Herrjunga and southwest to the port at Goteborg. In 1948, the BJ was taken into the Statens Jarnvagar, where the class was renamed E11 and renumbered 1849-1851.

All were placed in reserve in 1960

(Inside tube and flue diameters yielded a tube heating surface area of 158.20 sq m (1,703 sq ft) and evaporative heating surface area of 173.2 sq m (1,864 sq ft))