Bavarian R 3/3
Appearance
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Bavarian R 3/3 DRG Class 89.7–8 ÖBB 789 | |
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Gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) |
Coupled dia. | 1,216 mm (3 ft 11+7⁄8 in) |
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Axle load |
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Adhesive weight |
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Service weight |
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Boiler pressure | 12 kgf/cm2 (1,180 kPa; 171 lbf/in2) |
Heating surface: | |
• Firebox | 1.61 m2 (17.3 sq ft) |
• Evaporative | 89.60 m2 (964.4 sq ft) |
Cylinders | Two, outside |
Cylinder size | 420 mm (16+9⁄16 in) |
Piston stroke | 610 mm (24 in) |
Performance figures | |
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Maximum speed | 45 km/h (28 mph) |
Indicated power | 430 PS (316 kW; 424 hp) |
Career | |
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Retired | by 1964 |
The Bavarian Class R 3/3 of the
Second World War
and the last one was not taken out of service until 1960.
Numbers 89 835, 837 and 851 remained in Austria after the
Austrian Federal Railway (Österreichische Bundesbahn or ÖBB) took them over as ÖBB Class 789 and designated them using their previous serial numbers. Numbers 789.835 and 837 were sold in 1956 as industrial locos, number 789.851 was retired in 1957. Finally number 789.837 returned to Bavaria and may be found today in the collection of the Bavarian Railway Museum (Bayerisches Eisenbahnmuseum) in Nördlingen
.
No. 89 801 (ex K.Bay.Sts.B. 4701) belongs to the
DB Museum fleet. It was damaged during the great fire on 17 October 2005 at Nuremberg and is being restored in Koblenz
. (See photograph left).
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/BaySTB_R_3-3_Nr._4701.jpg/220px-BaySTB_R_3-3_Nr._4701.jpg)
"150 Years of German Railways"
Bochum-Dahlhausen
See also
References
- Hütter, Ingo (2021). Die Dampflokomotiven der Baureihen 60 bis 91 der DRG, DRB, DB, und DR (in German). Werl: DGEG Medien. pp. 333–337. ISBN 978-3-946594-21-5.
- Weisbrod, Manfred; Müller, Hans; Petznik, Wolfgang (1978). Dampflokomotiven deutscher Eisenbahnen, Baureihe 60–96 (EFA 1.3) (in German) (4th ed.). Düsseldorf: Alba. pp. 150–153. ISBN 3-87094-083-2.