Bavarian Gts 2x3/3

Career
Career
Numbers	K.Bay.Sts.E: 996; DRG: 99 201;
Retired	1934

Performance figures
Performance figures
Maximum speed	30 km/h (19 mph)

Bavarian Gts 2×3/3
DRG Class 99.20
Bavarian Gts 2×3/3 ; DRG Class 99.20
	T
• German	K 66.9
Gauge	1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)
Coupled dia.	900 mm (2 ft 11+3⁄8 in)
Wheelbase:
• Bogie	2,500 mm (8 ft 2+1⁄2 in)
• Overall	7,000 mm (22 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Length:;
• Over beams	11,832 mm (38 ft 9+3⁄4 in)
Height	3,650 mm (11 ft 11+3⁄4 in)
Adhesive weight	54.0 t (53.1 long tons; 59.5 short tons)
Empty weight	45.3 t (44.6 long tons; 49.9 short tons)
Service weight	54.0 t (53.1 long tons; 59.5 short tons)
Fuel capacity	1.5 t (3,300 lb) coal
Water cap.	4.5 m3 (990 imp gal; 1,200 US gal)
Boiler pressure	14 kgf/cm2 (1.37 MPa; 199 lbf/in2)
Heating surface:
• Firebox	1.85 m2 (19.9 sq ft)
• Evaporative	82.71 m2 (890.3 sq ft)
Superheater:;
• Heating area	34.00 m2 (366.0 sq ft)
Cylinders	Four, compound
High-pressure cylinder	400 mm (15+3⁄4 in)
Low-pressure cylinder	620 mm (24+7⁄16 in)
Piston stroke	450 mm (17+11⁄16 in)

The Bavarian Class Gts 2x3/3 was a former

military railway, steam locomotive that was in service on the narrow gauge line from Eichstätt to Kinding

.

The State railway locomotive

The locomotive was built in 1917 by

narrow gauge route. After the take over of the German state railways by the Deutsche Reichsbahn

it was given the number 99 201 and classified as DRG Class 99.20.

In order not to exceed the permitted

preheater

was located in front of the chimney and lay parallel to the axis of the locomotive.

The engine could carry 1.5 tonnes of coal and 4.5 m² of water.

After the conversion of its home line, Eichstätt–Kinding, to standard gauge in 1934 the locomotive was withdrawn from service and later scrapped.

Background information to the locomotive class

Army field railway locomotives

Locomotive 99 201 was one of a total of 20 engines, that

Hedjaz railway from Damascus to Medina

.

Copies

After World War I Henschel produced two further copies of this class:

In 1925 locomotive 104 was built for the line from Zell im Wiesental to Todtnau run by the South German Railway Company (Süddeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft). This engine was sold to the Blonay–Chamby Museum Railway in Switzerland in 1967.
In 1928 locomotive no. 12s was delivered to the Alb valley railway. In 1934 this engine then went to the Brohl valley railway. It was scrapped there in 1957.

Unlike the original German Army field railway engines, the copies were built as saturated steam locomotives.

Preserved examples

No. 104, formerly of the Zell-Todtnau Railway was in service with the Blonay–Chamby Museum Railway^[1] at the eastern end of lake Geneva. As of September 2021 the locomotive is under restoration and can be seen in the railway museum there.

Mallet locomotives 413 and 414 of the Chemin de fer du Vivarais do not belong to this class. The two engines were built in the 1930s in Alsace

.

References

^ "G 2×3/3 104 Süddeutsche Eisenbahn Gesellschaft – Chemin de fer-musée Blonay-Chamby" (in French). Retrieved 2 October 2021.

Weisbrod, Manfred; Petznik, Wolfgang (1981). Dampflokomotiven deutscher Eisenbahnen, Baureihe 97–99 (EFA 1.4) (in German) (2nd ed.). Düsseldorf: Alba. pp. 129–131.
ISBN 3-87094-087-5
.

[1] "G 2×3/3 104 Süddeutsche Eisenbahn Gesellschaft – Chemin de fer-musée Blonay-Chamby" (in French). Retrieved 2 October 2021.

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