SJ G11
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SJ purchased these locomotives to evaluate if they could serve as at good replacement for the locomotives they had obtained through the nationalization of the private railways during the 1940s. It was possible to purchase these locomotives as surplus material quite cheaply. The trials were less than satisfactory though, and with the rapid advances in the technology of diesel locomotives, no further purchases of this type of locomotives were made by SJ.
Overview
The two locomotives were numbered 1930 and 1931. Both had been transferred to Nederlandse Spoorwegen in 1945.
Numbers | Builder | Date built | Works No. | Notes | ||
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SJ | NS | WD | ||||
1930 | 4383 | 78529 | North British | 1944 | 25428 | |
1931 | 4464 | 79257 | Vulcan Foundry | 1945 | 2500 | Preserved |
In Sweden the locomotives were altered. Their chimneys, the originals of which had been replaced with taller chimneys by the Dutch, were cut down. Their cabs were replaced with fully enclosed cabs. Their tenders were cut down from 8-wheel to 6-wheel, and so on.
The locomotives were primarily used in south-west Sweden on the Halmstad-Nässjö line.
Both were withdrawn in the 1960s and placed in the strategic reserve. No. 1931 was bought by a group from the
References
- ^ "The Lost 'Dub-Dee'". Press Reader. Retrieved 2 March 2018.