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Power type
  
Steam

Configuration
  
2-4-0

Class
  
I

Build date
  
beginning in 1847

UIC class
  
1B

Operators
  
Royal Saxon State Railways

The Saxon Class I (German: Sächsische I) was a class of steam locomotive operated by the Royal Saxon State Railways with a 1B axle arrangement. The engines were supplied by various manufacturers for mixed duties.

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History

In 1871, the Royal Saxon State Railways grouped into Class I all those locomotives that had been procured from various manufacturers in the early years of state railway construction in the Kingdom of Saxony. These were all vehicles with a leading carrying axle and two coupled axles. The oldest locomotives of this class were procured in 1847 by the Saxon-Bavarian Railway. The last Class I locomotive was retired in 1887. No museum pieces have survived.

Literature

  • Kutschik, Dietrich; Näbrich, Fritz; Meyer, Günter; Preuß, Reiner (1995). Lokomotiven Sächsischer Eisenbahnen I (in German) (2nd ed.). Berlin: transpress-Verlag. 

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    Saxon I Wikipedia
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