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The Deutsche Reichsbahn's Class 52 [note 1] is a German steam locomotive built in large numbers during the Second World War. It was the most produced type of the so-called Kriegslokomotiven or Kriegsloks (war locomotives).
The best-known and the most produced German war locomotive, or Kriegslokomotive: DRB Class 52. Kriegslokomotiven (German: for "war locomotives", singular: Kriegslokomotive) or Kriegsloks were locomotives produced in large numbers during the Second World War under Nazi Germany.
Museum locomotive 52 5448 52 5448-7 1943 Schichau 3726 EMBB: Leipzig HBF, Gleis 24 52 5679 52 5679-7 1943 Schichau 3957 BW Falkenberg: Monument 52 5804 1944 Schichau 4101 German Steam Locomotive Museum (DDM) DDM, Neuenmarkt: Factory-delivered livery, ex ÖBB 52.5804 Museum locomotive 52 6106 1943 BMAG 12547 Vulkan-Eifel-Bahn: Bw Gerolstein
The 52.80 had standard piston valves with Winterthur pressure equalisation and hence poor riding qualities when running light. Not until the 1980s were Trofimoff valves and cylinder safety valves installed on some locomotives at RAW Meiningen. This improved the riding performance hugely when the engines ran without a train, something which was ...
Postwar locomotives of these types, particularly the BR 52, were spread all over Europe and were taken into service by the railways of many different countries: BR44 in France, SNCF 150X. BR50 in Belgium, NMBS/SNCB class 25; in Denmark, DSB class N. BR52 in Austria, ÖBB class 52; in Belgium, NMBS/SNCB class 26; in Norway, NSB Class 63.
The train eventually was composed of a gondola with a WWI-era 75mm gun and searchlight, a gondola with two 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns, a troop boxcar, a kitchen car, and a steam locomotive, with all the cars outfitted with armour. A diesel engine was also experimentally outfitted with armoured plate but by the time it was finished, the ...
Class 52 may refer to: British Rail Class 52; DRB Class 52, German locomotive class; DRG Class 52.70, a Saxon Class III steam locomotive
The last DB locomotives were retired from Duisburg-Wedau in 1977. Only 350 examples of Class 50 engines remained in with the DR in East Germany after the war. Because only a small number of the numerous Class 44 fleet went to East Germany, the DRB Class 52 was the predominant goods train locomotive