DRG Class 52

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DRG BR 52
DRG BR 52
reconstructed BR52-8177-9 in Leipzig in 2003
Power type Steam
Build date 1942 – 1945
Configuration 2-10-0
Locale Germany and Turkey
Disposition many preserved

The DRG Baureihe 52 (Class 52) Kriegslok (war locomotive) is a class of 2-10-0 German steam locomotive built in large numbers during the Second World War. They were a wartime development of the pre-war Class 50 ÜK, designed down to use less expensive materials.

More than 6,100 locomotives of this type were built, mainly for use on the Eastern Front of the European war theatre. To accomplish such a challenging task, the German locomotive manufacturers were merged into the Gemeinschaft Großdeutscher Lokomotivhersteller (GGL), which was a subdivision of the Hauptausschuss Schienenfahrzeuge (HAS) founded in 1942. Key HAS figures were Reich minister for munition and armarment Albert Speer and the Reich traffic minister Julius Heinrich Dorpmüller.

The GGL included the following locomotive manufacturers (including an approximate number of Class 52s produced):

  • LOFAG, Vienna: 1,053 units
  • Henschel, Kassel: 1,050 units
  • Schwartzkopff, Berlin: 647 units
  • Krauss-Maffei, Munich: 613 units
  • Borsig, Berlin: 542 units
  • Schichau, Elbing: 505 units
  • Maschinenbau und Bahnbedarfs AG (MBA) formerly Orenstein & Koppel, Babelsberg: 400 units
  • DWM Posen/Posen: 314 units
  • Krenau (Oberschlesische Lokfabrik): 264 units
  • Maschinenfabrik Esslingen: 250 units
  • Jung, Jungenthal, Kirchen: 231 units
  • Škoda, Pilsen: 153 units
  • Grafenstaden,Straßburg: 139 units
  • Grand total: 6,161 units (approximately)

53 were built for Turkish Republic Railways, forming the TCDD 56501 Class.

Several have been preserved. One of these is preserved on the Nene Valley Railway in Peterborough, England.

The Deutsche Reichsbahn (East Germany) has 200 maschines reconstructed to the new class 52.80.


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DB 52 8079-7

DB 52 8080-5

DB 52 8109 in Weimar (2003)

DB 52 4867 at the Eisenbahnmuseum Kranichstein (2005)

DB 52 8095 at Freiburg (2005)

DB 52 4867, Historische Eisenbahn Frankfurt e.V.

DB 52 8116 at the Eisenbahnmuseum Dieringhausen (2006)

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