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MFFB G 4.2 Type and origin Builder Henschel Build date 1901–1905 Total produced 5
Specifications Configuration: • Whyte 0-6-0 • UIC C Driver dia.1,345 mm (4 ft 5.0 in) Length: • Over buffers 15,367 mm (50 ft 5.0 in) Axle load 13.45 t Adhesive weight 40.35 t Service weight 40.35 t Tender type pr 3 T 12 Water cap. 12.0 m3 (2,600 imp gal) Firebox: • Grate area 1.53 m2 (16.5 sq ft) Boiler pressure 12 bar Heating surface 116.00 m2 (1,248.6 sq ft) Cylinders 2 Cylinder size 460 mm (18 in) / 650 mm (26 in) Piston stroke 630 mm (25 in)
Performance figures Maximum speed 45 km/h (28 mph)
Career Numbers MFFB numbers 401–405 Retired 1924
The Mecklenburg Class G 4.2 operated by the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg Friedrich-Franz Railway was a goods train , steam locomotive with a compound engine . It was procured between 1901 and 1905 from Henschel and Linke
based on the Prussian G 4.2 prototype. A total of five machines were built for Mecklenburg. It was planned that they would be taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn and were to have been given numbers 53 401 - 53 405 according to the 1923 provisional DRG renumbering plan . But they were retired by 1924 before the final plan was issued.
The vehicles were equipped with a Hartmann steam brake and had inside Allan valve gear . The engines were able to haul a 500 tonne train on an incline of 1:300 at 30 km/h.
In 1920 a G 4.2 was transferred from Prussia to Mecklenburg . It was given running no. 406 and would have become DRG 53 451.
See also References
Spielhoff, Lothar (1990). Länderbahn-Dampf-Lokomotiven. Band 1: Preußen, Mecklenburg, Oldenburg, Sachsen und Elsaß-Lothringen (in German). Stuttgart: Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung. ISBN 3-440-06145-0 [page needed
