Quantity 2 Retired 1949 | Year(s) of manufacture 1907 Wheel arrangement 0-6-2T | |
Number(s) BNB VIb 126/127
kkStB 265.01 / 02
ČSD 312.701 / 702 Manufacturer Erste Böhmisch-Mährische Maschinenfabrik, Prague | ||
The Austrian kkStB Class 265 were branch line tank locomotives with the Imperial Austrian State Railways, which had originally been procured by the Bohemian Northern Railway Company (Böhmische Nordbahn-Gesellschaft) as Class BNB Class VIb for duties on the Böhmisch Leipa-Steinschönau railway line.
The two locomotives were built in Prague in 1907 by the Erste Böhmisch-Mährische Maschinenfabrik.
The locomotives spent their entire lives on their home line. In 1924 the Czechoslovakian State Railways (ČSD) grouped the engines into their ČSD Class 312.7. After the Second World War the Deutsche Reichsbahn gave them the designation DR Class 90.3.
On the introduction into service of new ČSD Class M 131.1 railcars, these locomotives were retired in 1949.