The German DRG Class 71.0 was a locomotive with 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 ...
, which was intended as a replacement for
railbuses
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. Originally it had been planned for these standard engines (''
Einheitsloks'') to haul fast passenger trains.
Two vehicles were delivered in 1934 by the firm of
Schwartzkopff and two each in 1936 by the firms of
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* (1867–1897), German entrepreneur
* August Borsig (1804–1854), German businessman
* Conrad von Borsig (1873–1945), German mechanical engineer
* Ernst Borsig
Ernst August Pau ...
and
Krupp. The two-
cylinder
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A cylinder may also be defined as an infin ...
superheated
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engines were equipped with automatic underfeed stokers for one-man operation. In the course of its service the boiler overpressure was reduced from 20 bar to 16 bar for safety reasons. All the locomotives had a plate locomotive frame, frame. The second coupled wheelset was driven and the carrying wheels rested in Bissel axles.
The Deutsche Bundesbahn took over all the engines after the Second World War and allocated them to the locomotive depot (''Bahnbetriebswerk'' or ''Bw'') in Nuremberg. Later they were all transferred to Kaiserslautern and Landau in der Pfalz, Landau. The locomotives were retired by 1956.
No examples of the DRG Class 71.0 remain.
See also
* List of DRG locomotives and railbuses
References
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External links
Locomotive drawing and data
{{DRG locomotives
Steam locomotives of Germany, 71.0
2-4-2T locomotives
Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft locomotives, 71.0
Krupp locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1934
Borsig locomotives
Berliner locomotives
Passenger locomotives
Scrapped locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of Germany
1′B1′ h2t locomotives