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An unidentified TKp101, photographed between Tarnopol and Łanowce; winter
1929 was a very frosty and snowy one. Source: National
Digital Archives (NAC),
used by permission.
Austrian 92 2101 (ex kukHB 528.11, Henschel 14663/1916), photographed in Vienna. Capital ‘T’
comes from Russian ‘trofeynyi’, or booty, and
indicates that the picture was taken before Russians left Austria in 1955.
This locomotive later became 292.2101 and was one of the last two in service
– withdrawn in December 1966. Source: Lokomotiven ‘Heim
ins Reich’ – see References.
An unidentified kukHB
Class 578 locomotive, location and date unknown. Source: Die Lokomotive November 1930. |
During
the First World War virtually all Austro-Hungarian locomotive manufacturers
were overburdened, so military railways k.u.k.
Heeresfeldbahn (kukHB) placed orders for
standard-gauge locomotives, totaling 148 examples, with German factories.
This number included 22 four-axle tank engines, delivered by Henschel between 1916 and 1917. These were
relatively simple and robust single-expansion locomotives, running on
saturated steam and fitted with Heusinger valve
gear; their design followed typical Prussian standards of that time. Classed
578, all survived until the Armistice. Ten older examples, with factory
numbers 14103 through 14112, were taken over by PKP and in 1925
classed TKp101 (all ‘military’ locomotives were considered ‘of foreign origin
other than German or Austrian’ and assigned class numbers from 101 upwards).
The remaining twelve engines were taken over by Austrian state railways BBÖ
and retained their original service numbers. They were used as switchers at
four switch yards in Vienna, apart from one example, which was assigned to Knittelfeld (Bruck/Mur).
Following the Anschluss, all were impressed into DRG and
classed 9221. Eight were returned after the war and served with ÖBB
(later re-classed 292) until 1960s; last two, 292.2101 (ex 578.011, Henschel 14663/1916) and 292.2105 (ex 578.015, Henschel 14667/1917) were written off in December
1966. The remaining four were initially in April 1945 taken over by Hungarian
railways MÁV, but eventually handed over in August 1949 to Romanian CFR;
in the 1950s all were transferred to industry. Of ten Polish TKp101s, one (TKp101-3, ex 578.003,
Henschel 14105/1916) was withdrawn before
1936, the rest remaining in use until the war. In 1939 two fell into Soviet
hands and were taken over by NKPS; their ultimate fate is unknown. The
rest were impressed into DRG and re-numbered 92 2113 through 2119. In
1945 two were taken over by the Soviets and the remaining five returned to PKP
with new service numbers. TKp101-1 (ex TKp101-2, Henschel
14104/1916) was withdrawn in February 1951 and TKp101-5 (ex TKp101-1, Henschel 14103/1916) followed in December 1955.
Three examples went to industry. TKp101-4 (ex TKp101-10, KukHB
578.010, DRG 92 2118, Henschel
14112/1916), sold in 1951 to the Kętrzyn
sugar plan, was intended for preservation. This, however, failed to
materialize and not a single example of this type has survived until today. Main technical data
List of vehicles can be found here. References and
acknowledgments -
www.pospichal.net/lokstatistik
(website by Josef Pospichal); -
www.beitraege.lokomotive.de/datenbank
(website by Ingo Hütter); -
Lokomotiven ‘Heim ins Reich’ by
Andreas Knipping, Ingo Hütter
and Hansjürgen Wenzel (EK-Verlag, 2009); -
Josef Pospichal (private
communication). -
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