Px27 is a class of

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

(PKP)

narrow-gauge A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and . Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curves, smaller structur ...

steam locomotive A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam. It is fuelled by burning combustible material (usually coal, oil or, rarely, wood) to heat water in the locomot ...

built by

Fablok Fablok is a Polish manufacturer of locomotives, based in Chrzanów. Until 1947 the official name was ''First Factory of Locomotives in Poland Ltd.'' ( pl, Pierwsza Fabryka Lokomotyw w Polsce Sp. Akc.), Fablok being a widely used syllabic abbrevia ...

in Chrzanów, Poland, in 1929 (factory type W5A). Only two locomotives of this class were made, and one, Px27-775, is currently preserved.

History

In 1927

Wyrzysk Wyrzysk (german: Wirsitz) is a town in Poland with 5,263 (2004) inhabitants, situated in Piła County, Greater Poland Voivodeship. Geographic location Wyrzysk is located in the ethnocultural region of Krajna in northern Greater Poland, admin ...

County Railways (''Wyrzyskie Koleje Powiatowe'') ordered two locomotives in the First Locomotive Factory in Poland (Fablok), fit for service on sloping line profile. Fablok designed and manufactured two W5A type locomotives in 1929.Pokropiński (2016), p. 38-42, 204 After 1961 these were designated as PKP class Px27. It was a D () locomotive with a two-axle tender. The design based upon Fablok's earlier W2A type tank locomotive (later Tx26-427). Only after nine years, in 1938 the third and last slightly differing locomotive of W5A type was ordered by other railway (it was later designed as Px38 class). Both locomotives, factory numbers 343 and 344, received stock numbers 25 and 26 respectively and stationed in

Białośliwie Białośliwie is a village in Piła County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Białośliwie. It lies approximately east of Piła and north of the regional capi ...

depot. Both survived World War II, working on their railway. After the war, all county railways were taken over by the

(PKP) and in 1947 the locomotives were included into PKP Px2 collective class and given numbers Px2-801 (ex 26) and 802 (ex 25). According to new regulations, in 1961 both locomotives were classified as Px27 class, being the only ones in this class (P - locomotive with a tender, x - D axle arrangement, 27 – Polish origin locomotive designed in 1927). Px2-801 (factory no. 344) was renamed Px27-774, and Px2-802 (factory no. 343) was renamed Px27-775. After World War II both locomotives worked still on

Bydgoszcz Bydgoszcz ( , , ; german: Bromberg) is a city in northern Poland, straddling the meeting of the River Vistula with its left-bank tributary, the Brda. With a city population of 339,053 as of December 2021 and an urban agglomeration with more ...

-Wyrzysk railway, basing in Białośliwie. Px27-774 was retired on 26 September 1970, and then scrapped. Px 27-775 worked until 1976, then it was given to

Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Wenecja Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Wenecja (Polish ''Venice'') near Żnin (Poland) is an open-air museum collecting and exhibiting steam locomotives, passenger and freight cars, trolleys, railwaymen's tools, signalling equipment, contents of an old wa ...

, as a cold exhibit. (It might be noted, that also Px38-805 of W5A type is preserved in Wenecja).

References

*{{cite book, last=Pokropiński, first=Bogdan, year=2015, title= Parowozy wąskotorowe produkcji polskiej., trans-title=Narrow-gauge steam locomotives of Polish production, publisher=Wydawnictwa Komunikacji i Łączności, location=Warsaw, isbn=978-83-206-1963-8, language=pl.

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Px27-775 - Wciąż pod parą
Additional photographs and information (Polish) Narrow gauge steam locomotives of Poland Preserved steam locomotives of Poland Polish State Railways steam locomotives 600 mm gauge railway locomotives 0-8-0 locomotives

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