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(FS; Italian State Railways) Class 736 (Italian: ''Gruppo 736'') was a class of

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(USATC) 2-8-0 steam locomotives of the S160 Class. There were 243 locomotives in this class, numbered 736.001-243. They were taken to Italy by invading US forces. They were used on west coast routes working from

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, with some later seeing service on the Bologna to Ancona line. Some were transferred to

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, in Sicily. In 1959, twenty-five locomotives of this class Nos 736.011/23/40/55/73/90/101/2/126/7/131/5/51/8/60/4/6/78/88/90/9/203/7/9/17 were sold to the

Hellenic State Railways Hellenic State Railways or SEK (, ''Sidirodromi Ellinikou Kratous''; Σ.Ε.Κ.) was a Greek public sector entity (legal person of public law, ) which was established on 18 March 1920 by the law 2144/20 and operated most Greek railway lines until 1 ...

(Greek Railways, SEK), to add to their Class Θγ; being renumbered 571–595.

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736 __NOTOC__ Year 736 ( DCCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 736th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 736th year of the 1st millennium, the 36th year of the 8th century, and the 7 ...

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