Saxon III

Saxon III
DRG Class 34.76
Manufacturer: Hartmann Esslingen
Quantity: 66 21
Numbers: sä III 201-266
ab 1916: 243-280
DRG 34 7611		 sä III 267-273
ab 1916: 281-284
Years of manufacture: 1871 / 1873 1872
Retired: n.k.
Axle arrangement: 1'B n2
Length over buffers: 13,035 mm (42 ft 9.2 in)
Top speed: 70 km/h (43 mph)
Driving wheel diameter: 1,560 mm (5 ft 1 in)
Carrying wheel diameter: 1,035 mm (40.7 in)
Adhesive weight: 25.76 t
Service weight: 37.17 t
Axle load: n.k.
Indicated power: n.k.
Boiler overpressure: 8 bar
Cylinder bore: 406 mm (16.0 in)
Piston stroke: 560 mm (22 in)
Grate area: 1.60 m2 (17.2 sq ft)
Evaporative heating area: 91.93 m2 (989.5 sq ft)
Tender class: sä 3 T 5.56

The Saxon Class III were early, four-coupled, tender locomotives operated by the Royal Saxon State Railways for express services. The Deutsche Reichsbahn grouped these engines in 1925 into their DRG Class 34.76.

History

The Saxon III was built in 1871 and 1872 by the Hartmann (66 examples) and the Maschinenfabrik Esslingen (21 examples). Fourteen of the Esslingen engines were subsequently given a Nowotny-Klien bogie instead of the original fixed leading wheels and were then reclassified as the IIIb.

The Reichsbahn only took over one of the unmodified engines - no. 274 BRÜNN and number her as locomotive 34 7611.

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