Steam locomotive KLADNO
A half-tender steam locomotive KLADNO was manufactured by
the engineering works of Vienna-Raab railway in 1855 under
the serial number 295. It was supplied to the company of
Bustehradska railway (BEB/BD) and included into the category
I under the number 103. The locomotive was used mainly for
transport of coal on the basic railway of the company from
Kladno to Kralupy nad Vltavou since beginning of traffic in
1856. Technical specification: axle arrangement C2', duplex
steam engine with external flat slide valves on cylinders
and valve gear Gooch, third wheel set driven, hand screw
brake on both tender axles. Very interesting is particularly
the design of travel according to the system of Wilhelm
Engerth in which the tender bears a part of the locomotive
boiler weight. Three similar half-tender locomotives have
only been preserved all round the world, KLADNO being the
oldest of them.
Tomas Kucera , iso@ntm.anet.cz