Saxon XX HV

Career
Career
Numbers	Sä.St.E.: 66–80, 206–213; DRG: 19 001–023
Retired	by 1967

Performance figures
Performance figures
Maximum speed	100 km/h (62 mph) / 120 km/h (75 mph)
Indicated power	1,800 PS (1,320 kW; 1,780 hp)

Saxon XX HV
DRG Class 19.0
Saxon XX HV ; DRG Class 19.0
	Walschaerts (Heusinger)

The Saxon Class XX $\textstyle {\mathfrak {H}}$ $\textstyle {\mathfrak {V}}$ were German eight-coupled

First World War. The locomotives, which became known as the 'Pride of Saxony' (Sachsenstolz) were the first and only German express locomotives with a 2-8-2 wheel arrangement and, at the time of their appearance, were the largest express engines in the whole of Europe. In 1925, the Deutsche Reichsbahn

grouped these locomotive into their DRG Class 19.0.

History

The XX HVs were the last Saxon express train locomotives and were the pinnacle of Saxon locomotive engineering. They were conceived primarily for heavy express train duties on the winding and hilly

Hof

trunk route through the Mittelgebirge.

Its design was related to the simultaneously developed 4-6-2 express locomotive

coupled axle and a four-cylinder compound engine. Between 1918 and 1925 a total of 23 examples were manufactured by the Sächsische Maschinenfabrik in Chemnitz

.

The locomotives were given new running numbers 19 001–023 by the

Reichenbach/Vogtl.

The engines fully met the requirements of a Mittelgebirge mountain locomotive, however its main disadvantage was its high coal consumption on the level. As a result, the XX HV only worked the Dresden–Berlin line by exception.

Locomotive 19 021 was destroyed in the

Deutsche Reichsbahn in East Germany

in 1945, but several were not used due to war damage. Until their retirement in the 1960s the locomotives continued to head express trains on the Dresden–Hof and Leipzig–Hof routes.

On the electrification of their main routes the locomotives were retired by 1967. Number 19 017 remains preserved as a non-operational museum locomotive at the Dresden Transport Museum.

Design features

The

feedwater pumps that were later replaced by one injector

and a Knorr feed pump with preheater.

The steam engine was configured as a four-

coupled axle. To control the supply to the low pressure cylinders there was a normal Walschaerts valve gear

which also controlled the inside cylinders via pendulum levers. A special feature was the Lindner starting cock, already well known on two-cylinder compounds, which could supply additional live steam to the low pressure cylinders when working at over 60%.

counter-pressure brakes

.

The vehicles were coupled to Saxon sä 2'2' T 31 tenders.

Reconstruction

During 1963–1965 the locomotives fitted with a Riggenbach counter-pressure brake, nos. 19 015 and 19 022, were converted into trials locomotives by the VES-M Halle trials depot. They served as braking locomotives during performance trials.

The two engines were given new 39 E boilers of the type designed for the

turntables available in 1918 and was therefore not optimised for normal running. In addition to changes to the frame, it was modified with new 1000 mm diameter carrying wheels. This increased the overall wheelbase from 11,960 mm to 12,100 mm. New driver's cabs, Witte smoke deflectors, circular smokebox doors, a common cover for the steam dome

and sand box as well as the arrangement of all pumps on a special mounting gave the engines a very different appearance. Number 19 015 was coupled to a 2'3 T 38 tender from H 45 024. In 1967 both locomotives were converted to oil firing.

In 1970 the two engines were renumbered to 04 0015 and 04 0022. In 1975/76 they were retired and scrapped.

Literature

Ebel, Jürgen U. (2000). Sächsische Schnellzuglokomotiven Band 2: Sachsenstolz Die Gattung XX H V Die Reichsbahnbaureihe 19.0 (in German). Freiburg: EK-Verlag.
ISBN 3-88255-120-8.^{[page needed}
]

Näbrich, Fritz; Preuß, Reiner; Meyer, Günter (1984). Lokomotiven sächsischer Eisenbahnen, Schnnellzug- und Personenzuglokomotiven (EFA 2.1) (in German). Düsseldorf: Alba. pp. 185–188, 214.
ISBN 3-87094-096-4
.

Näbrich, Fritz; Meyer, Günter; Preuß, Reiner (1983). Lokomotivarchiv Sachsen 2 (in German). Berlin: transpress VEB Verlag für Verkehrswesen.^[page needed]
Preuß, Erich; Preuß, Rainer (1991). Sächsische Staatseisenbahnen (in German). Berlin: transpress Verlagsgesellschaft mbH.
ISBN 3-344-70700-0.^{[page needed}
]

Reiche, Günther (1998). Richard Hartmann und seine Lokomotiven (in German). Berlin/Chemnitz: Oberbaumverlag.
ISBN 3-928254-56-1.^{[page needed}
]

Wiegard, Hans (2001). Reko- und Neubaudampfloks der DR (in German). München: GeraMond Verlag.
ISBN 3-7654-7103-8.^{[page needed}
]

Weisbrod, Manfred; Müller, Hans; Petznik, Wolfgang (1976). Dampflokomotiven deutscher Eisenbahnen, Baureihe 01–39 (EFA 1.1) (in German) (3rd ed.). Düsseldorf: Alba Buchverlag. pp. 163–168.
ISBN 3-87094-081-6
.

External links

Die Lokomotive (in German)

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Passenger and express train locomotives	Saxon VIa Saxon VI Saxon VIb Saxon VIII 1 Saxon III Saxon IIIb Saxon VIb V Saxon IIIb V Saxon VIII 2 Saxon VIII V1 Saxon VIII V2 Saxon X V Saxon XII H Saxon XII HV Saxon XII H1 Saxon X H1 Saxon XII H2 Saxon XVIII H Saxon XX HV
goods train locomotives	Saxon II Saxon IIb Saxon VII Saxon Va Saxon V V Saxon I V Saxon IX V Saxon IX HV Saxon XI H Saxon XI HV Saxon XIV Saxon XIII H
Tank locomotives	Saxon IIb T Saxon I T Saxon H VIIIb T Saxon V T Saxon VII T Saxon IIIb T Saxon VII TS Saxon XVI T Saxon VII TOV Saxon XVI TV Saxon M I TV Saxon I TV Saxon IV T Saxon XI HT Saxon XIV HT Saxon XV HTV
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electric locomotives	Saxon Hz 0 Saxon S 1 Saxon E 1 Saxon I ME Saxon I MET Saxon Dai 1 Saxon DET 1-2 Saxon 9015
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History

Design features

Reconstruction

See also

Literature

External links