Bavarian D I

Bavarian D I
Number(s): Names and works nos.
DRG 88 7011–7017 (planned)
Quantity: 15
Manufacturer: Maffei
Year(s) of manufacture: 1871-75
Retired: by 1923
Wheel arrangement: 0-4-0
Axle arrangement: B n2t
Gauge: 1,435 mm
Length over buffers: 7.100 mm
Overall wheelbase: 2,135 mm
Service weight: 22.4 and 23.5 t
Adhesive weight: 22.4 and 23.5 t
Axle load: 11.2 and 11.8 t (centre)
Top speed: 45 km/h
Driving wheel diameter: 996, later 1,006 mm
Valve gear: Stephenson, outside
No. of cylinders: 2
Cylinder bore: 2380 mm
Piston stroke: 508 mm
Boiler Overpressure: 10 kp/cm2 = 9.81 bar
Grate area: 0.74 m²
Evaporative heating area: 47.0 m²
Water capacity: 1.74 and 3.0 m3
Fuel: 1.2 t coal
Brakes: Exter counterweight brake

Class D I of the Royal Bavarian State Railways (Königlich Bayerische Staatsbahn) was a tank locomotive with two coupled axles designed for shunting. As had been specified, these locomotives were simple and robust. They had a double-frame, with water tanks being suspended between the sole bars of the front section. Because the water capacity of 1.74 m3 soon proved too little even for a shunter operating only within the limits of its own station, additional side tanks were added to some engines during the 1880s. The outside Stephenson valve gear moved the valves on top of the horizontal cylinders. The locomotives could be braked using an Exter counterweight brake.

The D I saw shunting duties on small and medium-sized stations, for example in Schwandorf, Straubing or Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz. 13 locomotives were still in service when the Bavarian State Railway transferred to the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1920. Seven vehicles were allocated numbers in the DRG renumbering plan for steam locomotives, but none were implemented as they were retired in 1923.

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