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k.u.k. SDZ Locomotive JDZ 90

Military Occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Manufactured 1906 / 1911)


Variously called:   SDŽ: 391-402/SHS: 13001-13007/JDŽ 90-001-007/JŽ: 90-001-007/ČSD: U 47.001-004

Narrow gauge Mallet locomotive JDZ 90-005 at Sarajevo

In 1907, the Henschel & Sohn locomotive factory in Kassel built two Mallet-type tank locomotives for the Donja Čupria – Senjski Rudnik coal railway in central Serbia . Similar locomotives had previously been built for the Steinhelle–Medebach narrow-gauge railway in Westphalia .

In 1911 the Aktiengesellschaft für Lokomotivbau Hohenzollern in Düsseldorf delivered another ten largely identical steam locomotives . The machines were used on the routes Kruševac - Užice , Mladenovac - Lajkovac and Čupria - Ravna Reka in eastern and central Serbia.

During the First World War , five of the locomotives were confiscated and taken away by the Deutsche Heeresfeldbahn . At the end of the war, three of the locomotives were left behind on a military transport at the Praha-Bubny railway station. The vehicles were confiscated there by the Czechoslovak army and included in their inventory.

Three more locomotives came to the ku k during the First World War . army railways . At the end of the war, one of these locomotives was being repaired by the Karl Finze company in Teplitz-Schönau / North Bohemia (today Teplice). This locomotive also ended up in the Czechoslovak army.

After the First World War only eight locomotives remained in Serbia. They received the new numbers 13001 to 13007 from the railways of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes .

In 1933, the Yugoslav State Railways (JDŽ) redesignated seven locomotives from 90-001 to 90-007. They were only phased out and scrapped at the end of the 1960s. No locomotive from the JDŽ series 90 has survived in a museum.

friction mass:

24.7 tons

Wheelset Mass :

7.0t

Top Speed:

35 km/h

Indexed Pperformance:

250 hp

Driving Wheel Diameter:

800mm

Type of Control:

heusinger

Number of Cylinders:

4

HD Cylinder Diameter:

240mm

LP Cylinder Diameter:

370mm

Piston Stroke:

400mm

Boiler Overpressure:

14 bars

Grate Surface:

0.93 m²

Radiant Heating Surface:

4.68 m²

Tubular Heating Surface:

46.80 m²

Evaporation Heating Surface:

51.48 m²

Water Supply:

3.5m³

Fuel Supply:

1.4t

* No. 394 (ČSD U 47.002)

Numbering:

SDŽ: 391-402

SHS: 13001-13007

JDŽ/JŽ: 90-001-007

ČSD: U 47.001-004

Number Manufactured:

12

Manufacturer:

Henschel / Kassel

Hohenzollern / Dusseldorf

Year(s):

1906 / 1911

Retirement:

ČSD: 1966

axle formula :

B'B n4vt

Gauge :

760 mm ( Bosnian Gauge )

Length over coupling:

7,865mm; * 8,170mm

Height:

3,250mm

Fixed Wheelbase:

1,150mm

Overall Wheelbase:

4,000mm

Smallest Radius:

40 m

Empty Mass:

21.6t

Service Mass:

27.5 tons

Freight train in Sarajevo-Bistrik with 90-005 at the rear of the train (1965), Bosnian Eastern Railway freight train in Bistrik, a district of Sarajevo-Stari Grad municipality.