In 1905 the

Prussian state railways The term Prussian state railways (German: ''Preußische Staatseisenbahnen'') encompasses those railway organisations that were owned or managed by the State of Prussia. The words "state railways" are not capitalized because Prussia did not have a ...

grouped six-coupled, medium-powered, goods train, tank locomotives into its Class G 3. In addition to standard locomotives, there were also 285 G 3s that were not built to

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, because they had been built, in most cases, before the foundation of the Prussian state railways. The G 3 standard locomotives were, in their day the standard goods train locomotives with the

. The first examples were procured in 1877 for the Berlin-Wetzlar railway, known as the '' Kanonenbahn'' ('Cannons' line). Other deliveries went to the various state and private Prussian railways, to the Prussian state railways themselves and the

Royal Prussian Military Railway The Royal Prussian Military Railway (German: ''Königlich Preußische Militär-Eisenbahn''), also called the ''Königliche Militär-Eisenbahn'' (Royal Military Railway, KME), was a Prussian state railway, operated by the army, between Schöneberg ...

. Some of the locomotives had outside valve gear, the majority however had inner gear. The railway division of Frankfurt am Main even classified locomotives with outside valve gear as the G 2. In all some 2,068 G3 locomotives were built. The G 3 differed from the Prussian G 4.1 in having a lower

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overpressure of as against on the G 4.1. From 1886 onwards, only the variant with the higher boiler pressure was built. Several locomotives were later given boilers with the higher boiler pressure and were then classified as G 4.1. One G 3 ended up in the

Royal Saxon State Railways The Royal Saxon State Railways (german: Königlich Sächsische Staatseisenbahnen) were the state-owned railways operating in the Kingdom of Saxony from 1869 to 1918. From 1918 until their merger into the Deutsche Reichsbahn the title 'Royal' was ...

on the division of the Berlin-Dresden railway and was designated as a Saxon V with the name ''Tellkoppe''. In 1923 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 ...

envisaged as many as 523 locomotives in its renumbering plan, with the numbers 53 7001 - 7522 and 53 8294 (from Saxony). However, by 1925 only locomotives with the numbers 53 7001 - 7157 were included. They were retired by 1930. In the

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two G 3s came into the Reichsbahn fleet from

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as numbers 53 7005 and 7006. Other railway companies also owned Class G 3 engines: *

Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg Friedrich-Franz Railway The Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg Friedrich-Franz Railway (''Großherzoglich Mecklenburgische Friedrich-Franz-Eisenbahn'' or ''M.F.F.E.'') was the state railway company in Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz. After its second nationalisati ...

: 8 units, see the Mecklenburg G 3 *

Imperial Railways in Alsace-Lorraine The Kaiserliche Generaldirektion der Eisenbahnen in Elsaß-Lothringen or EL (English: General Directorate of the Imperial Railways in Alsace-Lorraine) were the first railways owned by the German Empire. They emerged in 1871, after France had ced ...

: 37 units as ''C 21 - C 24'', later reclassified as G 3, see the Alsace-Lorraine G 3 * Lübeck-Büchen Railway: 2 units, designated the Class ''G 2'' Class G3 locomotives were equipped with a Prussian pr 3 T 10.5 tender. One Prussian Class G 3, the ''Cöln 1100'', later ''Saarbrücken 3143'' has been preserved for posterity by the

DB Museum The Nuremberg Transport Museum (') is based in Nuremberg, Germany, and consists of the Deutsche Bahn's own DB Museum and the Museum of Communications ('). It also has two satellite museums at Koblenz-Lützel (the '' DB Museum Koblenz'') and Halle ...

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. It had been rebuilt from a ''Prüfgewicht''.

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