Prussian S 3

Infobox German Railway Vehicle
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Baureihe=Prussian S 3
DRG Class 13.0
Abbildung=Prussian S3 steam locomotive.jpg
Name=Prussian S3 photographed in 1895 at Berlin-Charlottenburg
Nummerierung=DRG 13 002–028
Hersteller=Hanomag
Baujahre=1893–1904
Ausmusterung=1927
Anzahl=1027
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Wheel arrangement=4-4-0
Gattung=S 24.16
Spurweite=1,435 mm
Treibraddurchmesser=1,980 mm
VorneLaufraddurchmesser=1,000 mm
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Höchstgeschwindigkeit=100 km/h
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LängeÜberPuffer=17,561 mm
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Dienstmasse=50.5 t
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Reibungsmasse=30.9 t
Radsatzfahrmasse=15.6 t
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Bauart=2'B n2v
Zylinderanzahl=2
Zylinderdurchmesser=460/680 mm
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Kolbenhub=600 mm
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Kesseldruck=12 bar
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Rostfläche=2.32 m²
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Verdampfungsheizfläche=117.70 m²
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Tenderbauart=Prussian 3 T 15
Prussian 2'2' T 16/20/21,5
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Wasser=15.0/16.0/20.0/21.5 m³
Brennstoff=The Prussian Class S 3s were saturated steam locomotives developed by Hanomag for the Prussian state railways and were built from 1893.

Design

They were a further development of the S 2 and used the same boiler. The "S" stood for "Schnellzuglokomotive", or express locomotive, of which the S 3 was a large and powerful type. Because larger turntables with a 16 metre diameter were then being built, the wheel base could be lengthened, which gave it better riding qualities. The locomotive had one high-pressure and one low-pressure cylinder, coupled to four driving wheels in 4-4-0 configuration.

They were the first class of locomotives to use superheating, a process in which the steam leaving the boiler is re-heated, resulting in better efficiency.

Procurement

The railway procured a total of 1,027 locomotives of this class up to 1904, and they were stabled at almost all locomotive depots ("Betriebswerken" or "Bw"). That made it the most numerous German express train locomotive. In addition, several hundred units with smaller driving wheels were manufactured - dubbed the P4 class.

Another 40 examples went to the Imperial Railways in Alsace-Lorraine (see Alsace-Lorraine S 3) and six units, with a modified axle base, to the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg State Railways (see Oldenburg S 3).

Reichsbahn Era

Whilst the Deutsche Reichsbahn still had 451 Prussian S 3 engines in its 1923 renumbering plan (as 13 008 - 458), only 27 of them remained in 1925 and were classified as DRG Class 13.0 with operating numbers 13 002–028. Locomotive 13 001 was not an S 3, but a Prussian S 2 converted into an Erfurt-type compound locomotive. The machines were retired by 1927.

The locomotives of the Oldenburg State Railway were given operating numbers 13 1801–1806 in 1925, but were retired only a year later.

After the First World War over 100 engines were left with the Polish (PKP) and Lithuanian Railways where some were still in service in the 1940s. Some were incorporated into the Reichsbahn fleet in the Second World War as 13 010, 301, 302, 305 - 337, 339 and 340. Several of these locomotives were in the East German Deutsche Reichsbahn until 1955 and were then given back to Poland.

The locomotives were equipped with Prussian 3 T 15, 2'2' T 16, 2'2' T 20 and 2'2' T 21,5 tenders.

ources

* Christopher Chant: "The World's Railways" ISBN 1-85361-487-4
* Eisenbahn Journal, Typenblätter Band No. 1, Baureihen 01-59, Archiv 1/2002, Horst J. Obermayer, ISBN 3-89610-093-9, pp 37/38.

See also

* List of DRG locomotives and railbuses
* List of Prussian locomotives and railbuses

External links

* List of steam engines in Germany today at [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_in_Deutschland_vorhandenen_Dampflokomotiven Liste der in Deutschland vorhandenen Dampflokomotiven]
* There is a relevant English-language forum at [http://germanrail.8.forumer.com/index.php Railways of Germany]