Then locomotives of Württemberg Class A were express train steam locomotives operated by the

Royal Württemberg State Railways The Royal Württemberg State Railways (''Königlich Württembergische Staats-Eisenbahnen'' or ''K.W.St.E.'') were the state railways of the Kingdom of Württemberg (from 1918 the ''People's State of Württemberg'') between 1843 and 1920. Please ...

. They were built from 1878 by the

Maschinenfabrik Esslingen Maschinenfabrik Esslingen (ME), was a German engineering firm that manufactured locomotives, tramways, railway wagons, roll-blocks, technical equipment for the railways, (turntables and traversers), bridges, steel structures, pumps and boiler ...

engineering works. In the mid-1860s the Württemberg State Railways turned away from the 4-4-0 American-influenced locomotives and went back to

2-4-0 Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles and no trailing wheels. The notation 2-4-0T indi ...

locomotives, because they were cheaper to buy and maintain. They even converted some 4-4-0s to 2-4-0 engines. Because these locomotives had been built over many years, the individual engines differed from one another in certain details and, for example, the

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pressure was increased from . The engines had a tender of Class 2 T 10 and were recognisable by their large steam dome, that was located just behind the only slightly higher chimney. Two locomotives ended up in the final

DRG renumbering plan In 1922 the Deutsche Reichsbahn began to develop a renumbering plan to standardize the numbering of steam locomotives that had been taken over from the state railways (''Länderbahnen''). Its basis was the corresponding DRG classification system. ...

of 1925 as the DRG Class 34.81. Number 34 8101 was the former 336, that in 1896 had been converted from a Württemberg Aa. Number 34 8102, formerly 363, was by contrast newly built in 1891. Both locomotives were retired in 1925.

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