Soviet locomotive class LV
Soviet locomotive class ЛВ | |
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Voroshilovgrad (Luhansk) Locomotive Factory | |
Build date | 1952—1956 |
Total produced | 522 |
Specifications | |
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Configuration: | |
• Whyte | 2-10-2 |
Gauge | 1,524 mm (5 ft) |
Leading dia. | 900 mm (35.43 in) |
Driver dia. | 1,500 mm (59.06 in) |
Trailing dia. | 1,050 mm (41.34 in) |
Length | 14.789 m (48 ft 6 in) (w/o tender), 24.710 m (81 ft 1 in) (with 4-axle tender) |
Adhesive weight | 104.0 t (102.4 long tons; 114.6 short tons) |
Loco weight | 123.4 t (121.5 long tons; 136.0 short tons) |
Fuel type | Coal, oil (FDP) |
Firebox: | |
• Grate area | 45 m2 (480 sq ft) |
Boiler pressure | 14 kgf/cm2 (1.37 MPa; 199 psi) |
Superheater: | |
• Type | Dvuhoborotny |
• Heating area | 136.5 m2 (1,469 sq ft) (No. 1), 149.2 m2 (1,606 sq ft) |
Cylinders | Two, outside |
Cylinder size | 650 mm × 800 mm (25.59 in × 31.50 in) bore x stroke |
Performance figures | |
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Maximum speed | 80 km/h (50 mph) |
Tractive effort | 262.3 kN (58,970 lbf) |
Career | |
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Operators | Russian Railways |
Class | ЛВ |
Numbers | ЛВ-01 - ЛВ-0522 |
Locale | Russia |
Retired | 1960-1983 |
Preserved | 28 |
Scrapped | 1960-1991 |
The Soviet locomotive class LV (Russian: ЛВ) was a Soviet main freight steam locomotive type. Between 1952 and 1956, 522 locomotives were built.
Development
The class LV locomotive was designed as a successor to the
In addition to a new
Following the successful test of OR18-01, a second locomotive was constructed in November 1953 incorporating minor changes, with two more pre-production locomotives produced during early 1954. Later in that year the first six production locomotives were built and the class designation was changed to LV (though the four prototypes were renumbered with LV18, rather than LV, prefixes). The six production locomotives, LV-0005 to LV-0010, were built with
The success of the initial batch of production locomotives resulted in Voroshilovgrad Works beginning mass production of class LV locomotives in 1955. Locomotives 0011-0112 were produced in the first year, with another 400 locomotives numbered 0113-0522 completed in 1956. Some changes were made during the course of the production run. Different combinations of plain bearings and roller bearings were produced, and starting with number 0026 a six-axle tender was substituted for the four-axle tender used with earlier locomotives. The drawbar connection between the locomotive and tender was also strengthened at the same time.
Initially it was planned to construct 3,000 locomotives of class LV, but in February 1956 at the
The design of the LV is believed to have partly influenced the design of the
Operation
The first prototype of class LV entered service on the Moscow-Kursk-Donbas line, operating out of Lublin Depot from August 1953 to April 1954 in testing. Once the type entered production, they were no longer used on this line as they were more powerful than needed. Production locomotives entered service on the South Urals, East Siberian and Krasnoyarsk railway lines, where following their introduction train weights increased by 25-30% and coal consumption fell 12-14% on average. Despite good operational results there were obstacles in introducing the locomotives, including the length of locomotives with six-axles tenders, which made it impossible to turn them at depots with turntables smaller than 30 metres (98 ft).
In 1959, with electrification of the main line of the Trans-Siberian Railway, locomotives operating on that line out of Kartali Depot were transferred to the Tselinnoe, Northern, Kemerovo and South Urals railway lines. As of 1976 there were still 521 locomotives of the class in operation on the Northern (168 locomotives), Kazakh (209 locomotives), Sverdlovsk (35 locomotives), South Urals (34 locomotives), and West Siberian (75 locomotives) lines. However retirement of steam locomotives began in earnest in the late 1960s and eventually all locomotives of this type were retired.
Preserved Locomotives
In working condition
- LV-0123 — Sverdlovsk Region, Russia: restored to working order at Tikhoretsk in 2017
- LV-0165 — Chrysostom Depot, Chelyabinsk oblast, Russia
- LV-0182 — Podmoskovnaya Depot, Moscow, Russia
- LV-0233 — Tikhoretsk, Krasnodar Region, Russia
- LV-0283 — Podmoskovnaya Depot, Moscow, Russia
- LV-0522 — Moscow, Podmoskovnaya Depot, Russia
Conserved
- LV-0041 — At Tikhoretsk, Russia, for restoration to working order
- LV-0192 — Podmoskovnaya Depot, Moscow, Russia
- LV-0355 — At Tikhoretsk for restoration to working order
- LV-0415 — "Pioneer Park" the October Railway, Leningrad oblast, Russia
In museums
- LV18-01 — Lebyazhye Railway Museum, Lebyazhye, Lomonosovsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Russia
- LV18-002 — Russian Railway Museum Saint Petersburg, Russia
- LV-0040 — Novosibirsk Railway Museum, Russia
- LV-0202 — Brest Railway Museum, Belarus
- LV-0225 — Nizhny Novgorod Railway Museum, Russia
- LV-0268 — Samara Railway Museum, Russia
- LV-0333 — Rostov Railway Museum, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia
- LV-0407 — Donetsk Museum, Ukraine
- LV-0420 — October Railway Museum, Shushary, Russia
- LV-0428 — Chelyabinsk Railway Museum, Russia
- LV-0441 — Moscow Railway Museum, Russia
- LV-0487 — Tashkent Railway Museum, Uzbekistan
Memorial steam locomotive
- LV-0190 — Kyzylordy, Qyzylorda, Kazakhstan
- LV-0197 — Vologda Depot, Vologda, Russia
- LV-0478 — Pechora Depot, Komi Republic, Russia
Abandoned
- LV-0044 — Zlatoust, Russia
- LV-0092 — Embi, Kazakhstan
- LV-0096 — Shchuchinsk, Aqmola, Kazakhstan
- LV-0348 — Astana, Kazakhstan
- LV-0387 — Shchuchinsk, Aqmola, Kazakhstan
See also
- St. Petersburg
- Paveletsky Rail Terminal, Moscow
- Rizhsky Rail Terminal, Home of the Moscow Railway Museum
- St. Petersburg
- History of rail transport in Russia
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7607-9679-5.