Prussian G 4.3

Specifications
Specifications
Gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Driver dia.	1,350 mm (4 ft 5+1⁄8 in)
Length:;
• Over beams	15,362 mm (50 ft 4+3⁄4 in)
Axle load	16.0 t (15.7 long tons; 17.6 short tons)
Adhesive weight	46.7 t (46.0 long tons; 51.5 short tons)
Service weight	46.7 t (46.0 long tons; 51.5 short tons)
Tender type	pr 3 T 10.5 or 3 T 12
Fuel capacity	4 or 7 t (3.9 or 6.9 long tons; 4.4 or 7.7 short tons)
Water cap.	10.5 or 12.0 m3 (10,500 or 12,000 L; 2,300 or 2,600 imp gal; 2,800 or 3,200 US gal)
Boiler:;
No. of heating tubes	217
Heating tube length	3,900 mm (153+1⁄2 in)
Boiler pressure	12.0 bar (12.2 kgf/cm2; 1.20 MPa; 174 lbf/in2)
Heating surface:
• Firebox	1.73 m2 (18.6 sq ft)
• Radiative	8.7 m2 (94 sq ft)
• Tubes	109.0 m2 (1,173 sq ft)
• Evaporative	117.71 m2 (1,267.0 sq ft)
Cylinders	Two, outside
High-pressure cylinder	460 mm (18+1⁄8 in)
Low-pressure cylinder	680 mm (26+3⁄4 in)
Piston stroke	630 mm (24+13⁄16 in)
Valve gear	Heusinger (Walschaerts), outside

Type and origin
Type and origin
Builder	Union Gießerei
Build date	1903–1907
Total produced	63

Prussian G 4.3
DR class 53.3
PKP Th4
Prussian G 4.3; DR class 53.3; PKP Th4
Builder
Type and origin
Builder	Union Gießerei
Build date	1903–1907
Total produced	63
Gauge
Specifications
Gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Driver dia.	1,350 mm (4 ft 5+1⁄8 in)
Length:;
• Over beams	15,362 mm (50 ft 4+3⁄4 in)
Axle load	16.0 t (15.7 long tons; 17.6 short tons)
Adhesive weight	46.7 t (46.0 long tons; 51.5 short tons)
Service weight	46.7 t (46.0 long tons; 51.5 short tons)
Tender type	pr 3 T 10.5 or 3 T 12
Fuel capacity	4 or 7 t (3.9 or 6.9 long tons; 4.4 or 7.7 short tons)
Water cap.	10.5 or 12.0 m3 (10,500 or 12,000 L; 2,300 or 2,600 imp gal; 2,800 or 3,200 US gal)
Boiler:;
No. of heating tubes	217
Heating tube length	3,900 mm (153+1⁄2 in)
Boiler pressure	12.0 bar (12.2 kgf/cm2; 1.20 MPa; 174 lbf/in2)
Heating surface:
• Firebox	1.73 m2 (18.6 sq ft)
• Radiative	8.7 m2 (94 sq ft)
• Tubes	109.0 m2 (1,173 sq ft)
• Evaporative	117.71 m2 (1,267.0 sq ft)
Cylinders	Two, outside
High-pressure cylinder	460 mm (18+1⁄8 in)
Low-pressure cylinder	680 mm (26+3⁄4 in)
Piston stroke	630 mm (24+13⁄16 in)
Valve gear	Heusinger (Walschaerts), outside
Maximum speed
Performance figures
Maximum speed	60 km/h (37 mph)
Numbers
Career
Numbers	KPEV 3901–4000; DR 53 301 – 53 328; DR 53 7751 – 53 7753
Retired	by 1928

The Prussian G 4.3 was a class of 0-6-0 goods locomotive of the Prussian State Railways; they were manufactured between 1903 and 1907 by Union Giesserei in Königsberg. The type was developed with the aim of improving the running characteristics of 6-coupled locomotives. They proved a more capable design than the normal-type (G 4.2), and so had a higher maximum speed of 60 km/h (37 mph). However, they were quickly outclassed by increasing weight of freight trains.

They were used for passenger and ordinary freight services, as well as express freight trains, mainly in the eastern divisions. Only 63 locomotives were manufactured, of which 39 were included in the 1923 DRG renumbering plan, as 53 296 and 297, and 53 301 to 53 337. In the final 1925 plan, the Reichsbahn renumbered the remaining 28 locomotives as 53 301 to 53 328. They were all retired by 1928.^[1]

After World War I, ten locomotives were transferred to Poland, and five to the Free City of Danzig. The PKP operated all 15 as class Th4. Nine locomotives were transferred to Belgium; they were not renumbered, and all were retired in 1923.^[2]

During World War II, three of the Danzig locomotives were taken back into the Reichsbahn fleet as 53 7751 to 53 7753. They passed to Deutsche Bundesbahn at the end of the war; one was sold to a sugar factory in 1946, but all were retired in 1951.^[3]

The locomotives were coupled to type pr 3 T 10.5 or pr 3 T 12 tenders.

Notes

^ Hütter (2012), p. 413.
^ Vandenberghen (1989), p. 157.
^ Hütter (2012), p. 446.

References

Hütter, Ingo (2012). Die Dampflokomotiven der Baureihen 50 bis 53 der DRG, DRB, DB, und DR (in German). Werl: DGEG Medien. pp. 412–413, 446. ISBN 978-3-937189-63-5.
Vandenberghen, J (1989). La guerre 1914 - 1918 et les locomotives "Armistice", 2. Description des locomotives K.P.E.V. (PDF) (in French). Brussels: SNCB. pp. 153–157.

Classes of Prussian locomotive and railcars
Express train locomotives	S 1 S 2 S 3 S 4 S 5.1 S 5.2 S 6 S 7 S 8 S 9 (Exp.) S 9 S 10 S 10.1 S 10.2 S 11
Passenger and express train locomotives	P 1 P 2 P 3 P 3.1 P 3.2 P 4 P 4.1 P 4.2 P 6 P 7 P 8 P 10
Goods train locomotives	G 1 G 2 G 3 G 4.1 G 4.2 G 4.3 G 5.1 G 5.2 G 5.3 G 5.4 G 5.5 G 7.1 G 7.2 G 7.3 G 8 G 8.1 G 8.2 G 8.3 G 9 (Mallet) G 9 G 10 G 12 (CFOA type) G 12 G 12.1
Tank locomotives	T 0 T 1 T 2 T 2/T 4 T 2.1 T 2/T 3/T 4 T 3 T 4 T 4.1 T 4.2 T 4.3 T 5.1 T 5.2 T 6 T 7 T 8 T 9 Elberfeld T 9 Langenschwalbach T 9.1 T 9.2 T 9.3 T 10 T 11 T 12 T 13 Hagans T 13.1 T 14 T 14.1 T 14 (Exp.) T 15 T 16 (Exp.) T 16 T 16.1 T 18 T 20 T 26 T 28
Narrow gauge locomotives	T 31 T 32 T 33 T 34 T 35 T 36 T 37 T 38 T 39 T 40
Electric locomotives	to follow
Railbuses	to follow
Prussian state railways

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Langbahn Team – Weltmeisterschaft

Prussian G 4.3

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