The kkStB 229 was a class of passenger 2-6-2

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Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways The Imperial-Royal State Railways (german: k.k. Staatsbahnen) abbr. ''kkStB'') or Imperial-Royal Austrian State Railways (''k.k. österreichische Staatsbahnen'',The name incorporating "Austrian" appears, for example, in the 1907 official state ha ...

(''k.k. österreichische Staatsbahnen''), kkStB.

History

In order to improve local passenger services the kkStB procured 1′C n2vt (

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saturated 2-cylinder,

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locomotives that were to replace the existing four-coupled tender locomotives in this role. One advantage of tank locomotives was that they did not need to be turned at the end of the route. In their design

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laid particular emphasis on good acceleration. The 17 engines of this class, designated as the kkStB 129 were delivered by the

Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf (Floridsdorf locomotive factory) was an Austrian locomotive works founded on 6 September 1869 that achieved a pre-eminent place amongst European locomotive builders thanks to the quality and diversity of its designs. Co ...

and

Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik The ''Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik'' (Wiener Neustadt locomotive factory) was the largest locomotive and engineering factory in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. During World War II the company produced armaments as part of Rax-Werk Ges.m ...

. Because these class 129 locomotives proved a total success, the Austrian Southern Railway Company (''Südbahn'') wanted to procured similar engines, albeit with greater water and coal capacity. As a result, Gölsdorf modified the design by adding a

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. From 1903 to 1907 Floridsdorf supplied eleven units of this newly designated Class 229 to the ''Südbahn'', and from 1904 to 1918 the kkStB placed orders for a total of 239 units with all the Austrian locomotive factories. The class 129 engines were rebuilt to 2-6-2T locomotives and placed into a new class 229.4. In 1913 the Böhmisch-Mährische Maschinenfabrik delivered four 229s to the Serbian State Railway and the Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik built 10 units in 1909 and 1920 for the ''Aspangbahn'' (''Eisenbahn Wien-Aspang'', EWA), that were designated as the EWA IIIa Nos. 41–50. After World War I, 69 engines were left with the Bundesbahnen Österreich (BBÖ), to which were added the eleven engines of the ''Südbahn'', grouped into Class 229.5, and ten machines of the EWA, grouped into Class 229.8, when these companies were nationalised. With the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, other nations also acquired these locomotives giving them their own classifications. The

Polish State Railways (''PKP S.A.''; en, Polish State Railways, Inc.) is the dominant Rail transport operations, railway operator in Poland. The company was founded when the former state-owned enterprise was divided into several units based on the need for separati ...

took had 22 locomotives as PKP Class OKl12, the Yugoslavian Railways acquired 25 as JDŽ Class 116 and the

Italian State Railways Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane S.p.A. ( "Italian Railways of the State"; previously only Ferrovie dello Stato, hence the abbreviation FS) is Italy's national state-owned railway holding company that manages transport, infrastructure, real estat ...

(FS) had five as FS Class 912. But the bulk of the engines (145 units) went in 1918 to the

Czechoslovak State Railways Czechoslovak State Railways (''Československé státní dráhy'' in Czech or ''Československé štátne dráhy'' in Slovak, often abbreviated to ČSD) was the state-owned railway company of Czechoslovakia. The company was founded in 1918 a ...

, who designated them as ČSD Class 354.0. As southern Slovakia was ceded in 1939 to

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, 15 units also went to the

Hungarian State Railways Hungarian State Railways ( hu, Magyar Államvasutak, MÁV) is the Hungarian national railway company, with divisions "MÁV START Zrt." (passenger transport), "MÁV-Gépészet Zrt." (maintenance), "MÁV-Trakció Zrt." and "MÁV Cargo Zrt" (freig ...

(''Magyar Államvasutak'', MÁV) as the MÁV Class 343.3. From 1926 to 1934 the ČSD rebuilt five of its 354.0 into

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two-

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simple locomotives which they designated as the ČSD Class 355.0. These machines were also given a second steam dome and a connecting pipe between the domes. Between 1936 and 1940, the

on another five engines was replaced by a bogie; these locomotives then became the ČSD Class 353.1. In 1944 another engine was converted to superheating, but the second steam dome was not used. After the

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of Austria by the German Empire in 1938, the ninety 229s were classified by the

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as DRB Class 75 701 – 75 790. During the course of the war, the ČSD Class 355.0 was incorporated as DRB Class 75 901 – 75 905 into the DRB; likewise 21 PKP Class OKl12 locomotives as DR Class 75 851 – 75 871 and nine JDŽ Class 116s as DR Class 75 791 – 75 799. After 1945, some 63 engines were grouped by the

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into their ÖBB Class 75. The last of these machines were retired in 1962. The former 229.137, 178, 187, 405 and 115 went into the ČSD as numbers 354.0501–354.0504 and 354.0506. The ČSD Class 354.0 was in service until 1967. Several former 229s also went into the JDŽ and PKP. Apart from normal use, at least 11 Polish locomotives were armoured in Poland and used in

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s during the Polish-Soviet War.Michał Derela
''Locomotives of Polish armoured trains 1918-1930''
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