kkStB Class 265

BNB Class VIb
kkStB Class 265
ČSD Class 312.7
Number(s): BNB VIb 126/127
kkStB 265.01 / 02
ČSD 312.701 / 702
Quantity: 2
Manufacturer: Erste Böhmisch-Mährische Maschinenfabrik, Prague
Year(s) of manufacture: 1907
Retired: 1949
Wheel arrangement: 0-6-2T
Axle arrangement: C1'n2t
Gauge: 1,435 mm
Length over buffers: 9,836 mm
Overall wheelbase: 4,800 mm
Empty weight: 32.3 t
Service weight: 44.6 t
Adhesive weight: 35.2 t
Top speed: 45 km/h
Indicated Power: 259 kW
Driving wheel diameter: 930 mm
Carrying wheel diameter: 840 mm
No. of cylinders: 2
Cylinder bore: 420 mm
Piston stroke: 480 mm
Boiler Overpressure: 12 bar
No. of heating tubes: 192
Grate area: 1.66 m²
Radiative heating area: 6.1 m²
Tube heating area: 79.6 m²
Evaporative heating area: 85.7 m²
Water capacity: 7,0 m³
Fuel: 4.7 m³ coal
Brakes: vacuum brake

The Austrian kkStB Class 265 were branch line tank locomotives with the Imperial Austrian State Railways, which had originally been procured by the Bohemian Northern Railway Company (Böhmische Nordbahn-Gesellschaft) as Class BNB Class VIb for duties on the Böhmisch Leipa-Steinschönau railway line.

The two locomotives were built in Prague in 1907 by the Erste Böhmisch-Mährische Maschinenfabrik.

The locomotives spent their entire lives on their home line. In 1924 the Czechoslovakian State Railways (ČSD) grouped the engines into their ČSD Class 312.7. After the Second World War the Deutsche Reichsbahn gave them the designation DR Class 90.3.

On the introduction into service of new ČSD Class M 131.1 railcars, these locomotives were retired in 1949.

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