Ti102
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CFR No.1409 (Jung 1881/1913), location and date unknown. Collection
Ilie Popescu (via ITFR vol. 1).
CFR No.1422 (Henschel
21301/1913), Râul Vadului depot, April 1941.
Collection Gottfried Wild (via ITFR
vol. 1). |
Before
WWI Romanian state railways CFR (Căile Ferate Române) purchased their motive power abroad, mainly
in Germany and Austro-Hungary. In 1910 Henschel delivered 27 universal
locomotives with the 1-3-0 axle arrangement and 1350 mm drivers, running on
superheated steam. They were given CFR service
numbers 1351 through 1377. In 1911 the next batch from Jung followed, numbering also 27 examples (1379 through 1405),
but running on saturated steam. Further engines were of the same variety:
twelve from Jung and ten from Henschel in 1913 (1406 through 1417 and 1418
through 1427, respectively), 37 from Henschel in 1914 (1286 through 1288 and 1317 through 1350)
and four from Hanomag,
also in 1914 (1290 through 1293). This gives a total of 117 locomotives; last
of them survived in the CFR service
until 1950. According
to LP, German military railways
took over five locomotives of this type, numbered 4001 through 4005 and
assigned to Militäreisenbahn-Generaldirektion
(MGD) Warschau. Four of them were
built by Henschel
(factory numbers 12874 through 12877, envisaged CFR service numbers 1347 through 1350). These were the last four
examples from final order placed with this manufacturers, undelivered due to
hostilities. According to Henschel factory list by Jens Merte,
downloadable from www.werkbahn.de/eisenbahn/lokbau/,
they were built in 1914; LP and ITFR give 1917, which may indicate
that the original order placed in 1914 was finally completed three years
later. MGD Warschau
4005 is another story. According to LP,
this was a locomotive from the batch of 27 examples ordered from Jung in 1911, with factory number 1575
and CFR service number 1391. If
this was the case, it remains to be explained how this particular engine found
its way to Germany from initially neutral and later hostile Romania; was
booty seems a reasonable explanation, but confirmation is lacking. This
locomotive was later transferred to MGD
Kolberg. To complicate things even further, ITFR states that No. 1391 remained in
Romania and was written off in 1935! All
but one locomotive of this type operated by German military railways were
taken over by PKP. They were
initially classed G5Rm, with G5 referring to former Prussian class
of similar characteristics and ‘Rm’ indicating origin – Romania. Later they
were classed Ti102; MGD Kolberg 4005 became Ti102-1, while MGD Warschau
4002 through 4004 became Ti102-2 through 4. The fate of the MGD Warschau
4001 is unknown. According to ITFR,
all engines taken over by PKP were
of the saturated steam variant. However,
locomotive types list, issued by the Ministry of Transport in 1927, states
they were superheated, and superheater parameters
are given, which may indicate reconstruction. This question requires further
study. All four Ti102s were written off in February 1939. Not
a single locomotive of this type has been preserved and photographs are very
rare. According to LP, only one
picture of a Ti102 is known, of rather poor quality. Main technical data*)
*) Data for the superheated version. References
and acknowledgments
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LP,
ITFR vol. 1; -
Charakterystyka parowozów
(Steam Locomotive Characteristics)
by A. Czeczott (Ministry of Transport, 1927); -
Jung
and Henschel
factory lists, compiled by Jens Merte (see maintext). |
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