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Maschinenfabrik Christian Hagans (Christian Hagans Engineering Works) was a German locomotive manufacturer founded on 1 July 1857 in

Erfurt Erfurt () is the capital and largest city in the Central German state of Thuringia. It is located in the wide valley of the Gera river (progression: ), in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest. It sits i ...

, Germany, by Christian Hagans. By the mid-1860s, the company had started building locomotive boilers and other components; in 1872 the first locomotive followed, a

narrow gauge A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and . Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curves, smaller structu ...

engine for a rail gauge of 750 mm. As a result of shortages of space, Hagans often had to limit its operations. For example, the T 15 was built by

Henschel Henschel & Son (german: Henschel und Sohn) was a German company, located in Kassel, best known during the 20th century as a maker of transportation equipment, including locomotives, trucks, buses and trolleybuses, and armoured fighting v ...

because Hagans did not have the necessary capacity. In 1903 the factory site was moved to Ilversgehofen north of the city; only then was large-scale production possible. On 30 June 1915 the locomotive factory was sold, with effect from 1 April 1916, to the ''Maschinenbau R. Wolf Magdeburg-Buckau''. In 1928, steam locomotive manufacture finally came to an end in Erfurt. By then Hagans had built 1,251 locomotives. The last Hagans engine was a

DRG Class 64 The Deutsche Reichsbahn had a standard passenger train tank engine with a wheel arrangement of 1'C1' (UIC classification) or 2-6-2 (Whyte notation) and a low axle load, which was designated in their classification system as the DRG Class 64 (''B ...

Hagans locomotive

A type of articulated steam locomotive is named after Hagans. It had two groups of coupled wheels that moved together and which were connected via swinging lever system (''Schwinghebelsystem''), so that the locomotive managed with one pair of cylinders. Examples are the Baden VIII d, the

Prussian T 13 The Prussian T 13 was a series of tank locomotives built in large numbers for the various German state railways, notably the Prussian state railways, and the Deutsche Reichsbahn during the early part of the 20th century. T 13 The physically i ...

and the Prussian T 15.

Preserved locomotives

* ČSD U 36.003 (ex ''Göllnitztalbahn'' No. 3) with the

Košice Children's Heritage Railway The Košice Children's Heritage Railway (Slovak language, Slovak: ''Košická detská historická železnica'', KDHŽ) is a long single-track heritage railway with a track gauge of . The railway was opened on 20 September 1955 as a children's rai ...

(in regular operation) * ''HOHEMARK'' No.2 in the Frankfurt am Main Transport Museum 89 7462 DB museum Koblenz

Literature

* Geoff Murdoch. ''Tasmania's Hagans: the North East Dundas Tramway articulated J class''. The author, 1998. * Hagans, Friedrich; Lohr, Hermann; Thielmann, Dr. Georg: ''Lokomotiven von Hagans'', Transpress, Berlin 1991, *Karl-Ernst Maedel: ''Aus der Dampfzeit: Erinnerungen und Erzählungen aus einer vergangenen Epoche, München 1999, Geramond,

External links

http://www.werkbahn.de/eisenbahn/lokbau/hagans.htm

Firmen-Geschichte der Fa. Hagans
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