The German term ''Neubaulokomotive'' () specifically refers to those
steam locomotives
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which were newly designed and built, either for the
Deutsche Bundesbahn
The Deutsche Bundesbahn or DB (German Federal Railway) was formed as the state railway of the newly established Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) on 7 September 1949 as a successor of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (DRG). The DB remaine ...
in
West Germany
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or the
Deutsche Reichsbahn
The ''Deutsche Reichsbahn'', also known as the German National Railway, the German State Railway, German Reich Railway, and the German Imperial Railway, was the German national railway system created after the end of World War I from the regiona ...
in
East Germany
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 ...
, after the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...
.
Concept
The term ''Neubaulokomotive'' or ''Neubaulok'' was chosen to distinguish these locomotives from the standard steam locomotives built by the pre-war
Deutsche Reichsbahn
The ''Deutsche Reichsbahn'', also known as the German National Railway, the German State Railway, German Reich Railway, and the German Imperial Railway, was the German national railway system created after the end of World War I from the regiona ...
in Germany, the so-called ''
Einheitsdampflokomotiven'' or ''Einheitsloks''.
The main differences were the welded plate
frames instead of bar frames and more powerful
boilers with
combustion chamber
A combustion chamber is part of an internal combustion engine in which the fuel/air mix is burned. For steam engines, the term has also been used for an extension of the firebox which is used to allow a more complete combustion process.
Intern ...
s. The locomotives which were newly developed by the Bundesbahn stand out visually from their Reichsbahn and former state railway (''
Länderbahnen
The ''Länderbahnen'' (singular: ''Länderbahn'') were the various state railways of the German Confederation and the German Empire in the period from about 1840 to 1920, when they were merged into the Deutsche Reichsbahn after the First World War ...
'') 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
The ''Deutsche Reichsbahn'', also known as the German National Railway, the German State Railway, German Reich Railway, and the German Imperial Railway, was the German national railway system created after the end of World War I from the regiona ...
in the
GDR 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
This list provides an overview of the motive power operated by Deutsche Bahn. It only includes those vehicles that have been in service with the Deutsche Bahn AG since its formation on 1 January 1994.
The classes are numbered according to the ...
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Einheitsdampflokomotive
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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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External links
Steam locomotive construction and technology (German)
Steam locomotive types
Steam locomotives of Germany
Deutsche Bundesbahn locomotives
Deutsche Reichsbahn (East Germany) locomotives