The Egyptian Republic Railways 4211 class was a class of
0-6-0 diesel
shunter
A switcher, shunter, yard pilot, switch engine, yard goat, or shifter is a small railroad locomotive used for manoeuvring railroad cars inside a rail yard in a process known as ''switching'' (US) or ''shunting'' (UK). Switchers are not inten ...
introduced on Egyptian Republic Railways (now
Egyptian National Railways
Egyptian National Railways (ENR; ar, السكك الحديدية المصرية, Al-Sikak al-Ḥadīdiyyah al-Miṣriyyah) is the national railway of Egypt and managed by the parastatal Egyptian Railway Authority (ERA; ar, الهيئة الق ...
) in the 1950s.
Arnold Jung Lokomotivfabrik in
Jungenthal,
Rheinland-Pfalz
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...
, Germany built the first batch of 15 in 1953 and the second batch of 27 in 1955–56.
[
During the 1956 Israeli invasion of Sinai number 4239 (Jung works number 21646) was captured in Sinai][ on the former ]Palestine Railways
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line between El Kantara East and Gaza. It was taken into Israel Railways
Israel Railways Ltd. , dba Israel Railways ( he, רַכֶּבֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל, ''Rakevet Yisra'el''), is the state-owned principal railway company responsible for all inter-city, commuter, and freight rail transport in Israel. Isra ...
and renumbered 251.[ It was little used and in about 1970 it was scrapped.][
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0-6-0 locomotives
1953 establishments in Egypt
Railway locomotives introduced in 1953
1950s in transport
Diesel locomotives of Egypt
Diesel locomotives of Israel
Suez Crisis
Arnold Jung locomotives