Saxon I

The Saxon Class I (German: Sächsische I) was a class of steam locomotive operated by the Royal Saxon State Railways with a 1B axle arrangement. The engines were supplied by various manufacturers for mixed duties.

Saxon Class I
Sächsische I
Type and origin
Power typeSteam
Build datebeginning in 1847
Specifications
Configuration:
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 • Whyte2-4-0
 • UIC1B
Career
OperatorsRoyal Saxon State Railways
ClassI
Retiredall by 1887
Dispositionall scrapped

History

In 1871, the Royal Saxon State Railways grouped into Class I all those locomotives that had been procured from various manufacturers in the early years of state railway construction in the Kingdom of Saxony. These were all vehicles with a leading carrying axle and two coupled axles. The oldest locomotives of this class were procured in 1847 by the Saxon-Bavarian Railway. The last Class I locomotive was retired in 1887. No museum pieces have survived.

See also
  • List of Saxon locomotives and railbuses

Literature
  • Kutschik, Dietrich; Näbrich, Fritz; Meyer, Günter; Preuß, Reiner (1995). Lokomotiven Sächsischer Eisenbahnen I (in German) (2nd ed.). Berlin: transpress-Verlag.


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