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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.
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 goods train locomotives of the Class 42 built from 1943 onwards were the second, heavy class of so-called war locomotives (Kriegslokomotiven) (KDL 2), intended for duties on routes that were cleared for a higher axle load. Further locomotives were built and sold by LOFAG after the war.
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 in many areas there.
They are often just called 'ÜK' locomotives. In the Second World War the requirement for motive power, especially goods train locomotives, rose sharply. To cope with the demand the standard locomotive classes 44, 50 and 86 were built, after 1941, to a simpler, more austere design and given the designation (ÜK) after the class number.
The DRG (lit. German Imperial Railway Company) was formed under the terms of the Dawes Plan from the Deutsche Reichseisenbahnen (lit. Imperial Railways), a merger of the various German state railways after the First World War. The tables are generally organized in accordance with the DRG's numbering schemes for the various types of vehicles.
General German locomotive articles e.g. Kriegslok, DB classification scheme, List of Mecklenburg locomotives, etc. Sub-categories by railway company containing individual locomotive classes; The existing individual locomotives on this page are gradually being transferred to their respective railway company sub-categories.
Twenty locomotives were destroyed during the Second World War; lightly damaged engines were repaired. Of the original 775 units, 175 went to the GDR railways , 385 to the Deutsche Bundesbahn , 29 to the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB), 44 to the PKP in Poland as the Class TKt3 , 73 to the SZD and 62 to the CSD (6 of which later went to the SZD ...