The German term ''Neubaulokomotive'' () specifically refers to those
steam locomotives which were newly designed and built, either for the
Deutsche Bundesbahn in
West Germany or the
Deutsche Reichsbahn in
East Germany, after the
Second World War.
Concept
The term ''Neubaulokomotive'' or ''Neubaulok'' was chosen to distinguish these locomotives from the standard steam locomotives built by the pre-war
Deutsche Reichsbahn in Germany, the so-called ''
Einheitsdampflokomotiven The Einheitsdampflokomotiven ("standard steam locomotives"), sometimes shortened to ''Einheitslokomotiven'' or ''Einheitsloks'', were the standardized steam locomotives built in Germany after 1925 under the direction of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gese ...
'' or ''Einheitsloks''.
The main differences were the welded plate
frames
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Frame and FRAME may also refer to:
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instead of bar frames and more powerful
boilers
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with
combustion chambers. The locomotives which were newly developed by the Bundesbahn stand out visually from their Reichsbahn and former state railway (''
Länderbahnen'') counterparts, particularly because of their shiny, silver-coloured boiler rings.
DB locomotives
The DB ''Neubauloks'' were:
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Class 10
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Class 23
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Class 65
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Class 66
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Class 82
DR locomotives
The ''Neubauloks'' of the former
Deutsche Reichsbahn in the
GDR
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...
were:
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Class 23.10
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Class 25.10
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Class 50.40
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Class 65.10
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Class 83.10
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Class 99.23-24
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Class 99.77-79
See also
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List of DB locomotives and railbuses
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Einheitsdampflokomotive The Einheitsdampflokomotiven ("standard steam locomotives"), sometimes shortened to ''Einheitslokomotiven'' or ''Einheitsloks'', were the standardized steam locomotives built in Germany after 1925 under the direction of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gese ...
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Kriegslokomotive
''Kriegslokomotiven'' (german: for "war locomotives", singular: ''Kriegslokomotive'') or ''Kriegsloks'' were locomotives produced in large numbers during the Second World War under Nazi Germany. Their construction was tailored to the economic cir ...
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Rekolokomotive {{unreferenced, date=December 2014
The German term Rekonstruktionslokomotive (abbreviated to: Rekolokomotive or Rekolok) meant 'reconstruction locomotive' and was introduced in 1957 by the Deutsche Reichsbahn in the GDR.
The term was used for clas ...
References
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Steam locomotive construction and technology (German)
Steam locomotive types
Steam locomotives of Germany
Deutsche Bundesbahn locomotives
Deutsche Reichsbahn (East Germany) locomotives