Saxon I

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Saxon Class I Sächsische I
Type and origin Power type Steam Build date beginning in 1847
Specifications Configuration: ​  • Whyte 2-4-0  • UIC 1B
Career Operators Royal Saxon State Railways Class I Retired all by 1887 Disposition all scrapped

The Saxon Class I (

. The engines were supplied by various manufacturers for mixed duties.

History

In 1871, the Royal Saxon State Railways grouped into Class I all those locomotives that had been procured from various manufacturers in the early years of state railway construction in the

. The last Class I locomotive was retired in 1887. No museum pieces have survived.

List of locomotives were that were placed in class I

Name	Manufacturer	Serial number	Year	Original/previous owner	Notes
CAMEL	Borsig	149	1847
DROMEDAR	Borsig	150	1847
WURZEN	Borsig	151	1847	Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company
OSCHATZ	Borsig	152	1847	Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company
GREIF
SCHAKALL
STRAUSS
GIRAFFE
NASHORN	Borsig	210	1848
PANTHER
GLÜCK AUF	Hartmann	1	1848	Saxon-Bavarian Railway
SAXONIA	Hartmann	2	1848	Saxon-Bohemian State Railway
GERMANIA	Hartmann	3	1848	Saxon-Bohemian State Railway
PIRNA	Hartmann	4	1848	Saxon-Bohemian State Railway
ROSS	Hartmann	5	1848	Saxon-Bavarian Railway
ELBE	Hartmann	6	1848	Saxon-Bohemian State Railway
HARTMANN (FAUST from 1869)	Hartmann	8	1848	Saxon-Bavarian Railway
CROCODIL	Hartmann	9	1848	Saxon-Bavarian Railway
KÖNIGSTEIN	Hartmann	10	1849	Saxon-Bohemian State Railway
RHINOCEROS	Hartmann	14	1850	Saxon-Bavarian Railway
HARTMANN	Hartmann	15	1850	Saxon-Bohemian State Railway
PHÖNIX (PSYCHE from 1869)	Hartmann	25	1850		Originally built by Rabenstein in 1846 as PEGASUS or TEUTONIA, rebuilt by Hartmann in 1850
BOHEMIA	Hartmann	26	1851	Saxon-Bohemian State Railway
AUSTRIA (JUNO from 1869)	Hartmann	27	1851	Saxon-Bohemian State Railway
ZSCHOPAU	Hartmann	28	1852	Chemnitz-Riesaer Eisenbahn
ERZGEBIRGE	Hartmann	29	1852	Chemnitz-Riesaer Eisenbahn
DÖBELN	Hartmann	30	1852	Chemnitz-Riesaer Eisenbahn

See also

• List of Saxon locomotives and railbuses

References

• Kutschik, Dietrich; Näbrich, Fritz; Meyer, Günter; Preuß, Reiner (1995). Lokomotiven Sächsischer Eisenbahnen I (in German) (2nd ed.). Berlin: transpress-Verlag.
• Näbrich, Fritz; Preuß, Reiner; Meyer, Günter (1984). Lokomotiven sächsischer Eisenbahnen, Schnnellzug- und Personenzuglokomotiven (EFA 2.1) (in German). Düsseldorf: Alba. pp. 68–72, 194–196.
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