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Prussian state railways. The term Prussian state railways (German: Preußische Staatseisenbahnen) encompasses those railway organisations that were owned or managed by the State of Prussia. The words "state railways" are not capitalized because Prussia did not have an independent railway administration; rather the individual railway ...
Prussian P 2. The Prussian Class P 2 consisted of various types of early, passenger train, steam locomotive operated by the Prussian state railways. There were 294 2-4-0 locomotives, 24 0-4-2 locomotives and two engines with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement.
- 1877–1885
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- 2-4-0
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This resulted in the merger of the existing state railways (Länderbahnen) of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Württemberg, Baden, Mecklenburg and Oldenburg under the newly formed German Reich. The state railways that merged were the: Baden state railways; Mecklenburg state railways; Oldenburg state railways; Bavarian state railways; Saxon state railways
- 7 October 1949; 74 years ago
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- 1 April 1920; 103 years ago
- German state railways
Railways came to Prussia in 1838 with the founding of the privately-owned Berlin-Potsdam Railway, after the Bavarian Ludwig Railway showed that German railways could be run economically. It was known colloquially as " Stammbahn ", which roughly translates as "original line". The first state-run Prussian railways appeared around 1850:
The Prussian Eastern Railway (German: Preußische Ostbahn) was a railway in the Kingdom of Prussia and later Germany until 1918. Its main route, approximately 740km (460miles) long, connected the capital, Berlin, with the cities of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia).
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Among the German newcomers were representatives of practically every standard type of the former Prussian State Railways: “Atlantics”, eight-coupled goods engines, various tank engine classes, and hundreds of the well-known Prussian . 4-6-0’s of Class P 8. There were also one or two “Pacifics” from Bavaria, but these were found ...
The Prussian Minister for State Works convened an eight-day meeting in 1874 with head engineers of several German railroads and arrived at two "Standard" designs --a 2-4-0 for passenger work and an 0-6-0 for freight operations. These Personenzug- schlepptenderlok were speed-rated at 70-90 kph (43.5-56 mph). Class P3.1 / 34.7 (Locobase 713)