030 TX

The 030 TX were locomotive with vapor of German origin whose construction, going back to 1942 with 1943, had been entrusted to the company Henschel.

Destinies originally with the network of Mandchourie, then occupied by the Japanese, these machines 9 could not take the sea. Indeed, it had been judged by the Germans that forwarding by the port of Hamburg would be dangerous, this is why, they was dismounted, put in cases and dispatched at the port of Bordeaux where they remained on the quays because of the maritime blockade.

the SNCF recovered in 1945 the machines which had gone back by the workshops of Bordeaux after having required the notes to the manufacturer and had incorporated in the park on March 15th 1947 under the registration 4-030 TX 1 to 9 .

Service

Their deposits was with the liking of the changes: Paris (which had all the series minus the 030 TX 8 of 1953 with 1955), Bordeaux Bastide and Midsummer's Day, Orleans and Vierzon in October 1947, Étampes in 1951, Cahors on July 17th 1956, Coutras, Ussel, Brive, Limoges and Périgueux in 1957.

The year 1961 saw the departure of the 4-030 TX 5 for the Africa with the North-African Charbonnages and the departure for the South-eastern area of the 030 TX 2 and 3 towards the deposits of Saint-Etienne and Laroche. In 1962 the 030 TX 1 also took the way of the Africa for the North-African Charbonnages. The small series died out in 1965 with radiations of the 4 last units: 030 TX 2,3,7 and 9 what represents 18 years of career all the same!

Description

They was machines having an engine with simple expansion with two cylinders. The distribution was of the type “Walschaert”. Lighting was electric and ensured by a turbo-generator and the cabin could be closed entirely thanks to the presence of doors (a luxury that few machines divided). As all machines of German origin control is on the right what could constitute a handicap for the operations in station, service for which they were intended. On the other hand their low length and their minimal ray of turning circle of 27 m made of them perfect machines for the operations of deposit or junctions with tight curves. Another handicap was the weak capacity of the coal bunker which one tried to solve with a test of enlarging on the 030 TX 3 but which was not continued.

Characteristics

  • Pressure of the boiler: 13 kg/cm ²
  • Diameter of the cylinders: ? mm
  • Diameter of the driving wheels: 1100 mm
  • Capacity of the water compartments: 4,5 m ³
  • Capacity of the coal bunker: 1,36 T
  • Mass in functioning order: 43,4 T
  • adherent Mass: 43,4 T
  • Overall length: 9,31 m
  • maximum Speed in service: 45 km/h

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