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k.u.k. MB 62 Loco (no JDZ number)

Military Occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina


Two-cylinder compound locomotive No. 62 with wheel arrangement 1'C1' of the kuk military railway Banjaluka–Dobrlin, delivered in 1908 by the Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik

Dobrljin–Banja Luka Military Railway

This locomotive with no JDZ number was used on the railroad section between Dobrljin and Banja Luka, opened in 1872 as part of a planned but ultimately unfinished railway line from Istanbul to Vienna ( Sandschakbahn ), was the first railway line in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Dobrljin–Banja Luka section, built by the k.u.k. Imperial and Royal Army, was the first railway line in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This locomotive type 62, as one of the first three types delivered (MB-52, MB-62 and MB-72), had no JDZ number. Later locomotives of this type were numbered JDŽ 108.