The TCDD (Turkish Republic Railways) 56701 Class was a class of

2-10-0 Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-10-0 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, ten powered and coupled driving wheels on five axles, and no trailing wheels. This arrangement ...

steam locomotives. In 1954 TCCD bought 48 SNCF Class 150.X locomotives which had been made redundant by electrification. These had been built between 1944 and 1946 by various French makers ( Batignolles-Châtillon,

Fives-Lille Fives-Lille was a French engineering company located at Fives, a suburb of Lille. It is now part of the Fives Group. History The company began as in 1861 and made a joint venture with the Société J. F. Cail & Cie. and were of Belgian orig ...

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and Schneider et Cie., to the

DRG Class 44 The Class 44 (German: ''Baureihe 44'' or ''BR 44'') was a ten-coupled, heavy goods train steam locomotive built for the Deutsche Reichsbahn as a standard steam engine class (''Einheitsdampflokomotive''). Its sub-class was G 56.20 and it had tripl ...

Übergangskriegslokomotive The Übergangskriegslokomotiven (literally: provisional war locomotives) were austere versions of standard locomotives ('' Einheitslokomotiven'') built by Germany during the Second World War in order to accelerate their production. They are often j ...

'' (transitional war locomotive) design, both under German occupation and in the immediate period after Allied liberation. They were kept in TCCD service until the late 1970s.

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''Trains of Turkey'' 56701 Fives-Lille locomotives Schneider locomotives Standard gauge locomotives of Turkey {{steam-loco-stub

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