China Railways PL2

China Railways PL2 Mantetsu Pureni(プレニ)
PL2-248, Kiraku-yama park, Tsukubamirai, Ibaraki, Japan, March 2018
Type and origin Power type Steam Builder Nippon Sharyō Tangshan Railway Vehicle? Serial number プレニ 1- 20(SMR) PL2 31 - 50, and various other numbers(CR) Build date 1935 1958-1959?
Specifications Gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) Driver dia. 1,370 mm (53.94 in) Length 18.226 m (59 ft 9+1⁄2 in) Loco weight 68 t (66.9 long tons; 75.0 short tons) Tender weight 22.5 t (22.1 long tons; 24.8 short tons) Tender cap. 6 t (5.9 long tons; 6.6 short tons) (coal), 18 m3 (636 cu ft) (water) Cylinders 2 Cylinder size 500 mm × 610 mm (19.685 in × 24.016 in) bore x stroke
Performance figures Maximum speed 60 km/h (37 mph)
Career Operators South Manchuria Railway China Railway

The PL2 class 2-6-2 is one of the industrial locomotives used by China Railway, originally built in 1935 by Nippon Sharyō for the South Manchuria Railway, which designated them Pureni (プレニ) class.

After the war, Pureni class locomotives were taken over by the China Railway, becoming class ㄆㄌ2 in 1951, later PL2 in 1959, numbers 31–50.

Preservation

• PL2-248 is preserved at Kiraku-yama park, Tsukubamirai, Ibaraki, Japan.

See also

• China Railways JF6
• China Railways SY
• China Railways YJ

Further reading

• Gibbons, Robin (2016). Locomotives of China - The JF6 Family - The JF6, PL2, YJ and SY Classes. United Kingdom: Tynedale Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9934192-1-8.