Px38-805

Px38-805, named Leon, is a preserved Polish 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) narrow gauge steam locomotive built by Fablok in Chrzanów, Poland. It was the only locomotive of PKP class Px38, and one of three built locomotives of Fablok W5A type.

Px38-805
Type and origin
Power typesteam
BuilderFablok
Serial number727
ModelW5A
Build date1938
Total produced1
Specifications
Configuration:
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 • Whyte0-8-0T
 • UICD (Dn2t+t)
Gauge600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in)
Driver dia.650 mm (26 in)
Tender wheels570 mm (22 in)
Minimum curve30 m (98 ft)
Wheelbase2,400 mm (7 ft 10 in)
 • Coupled800 mm (2 ft 7 in)
 • Tender1,300 mm (4 ft 3 in)
Length6,220 mm (20 ft 5 in)
9,920 mm (32 ft 7 in) with tender
Width1,800 mm (5 ft 11 in)
Height3,100 mm (10 ft 2 in)
Axle load4.4 t
Loco weight17.5 t
Tender weight7.8 t
Tender type2-axle
Fuel typecoal
Fuel capacity300 kg coal, 1.5 m³ water
Tender cap.1500 kg coal, 3.5 m³ water
Firebox:
 • Firegrate area		0.88 m2 (9.5 sq ft)
Boiler pressure13 kg/cm²
Heating surface38 m2 (410 sq ft)
Cylinders2
Cylinder size285 mm (11.2 in) bore
× 350 mm (14 in) stroke
Valve gearHeusinger
Loco brakeSteam and hand
Performance figures
Maximum speed30 km/h (19 mph)
Power output110 hp (82 kW)
Tractive effort4,265 kgf (9,400 lbf)
Career
OperatorsWrzesińska Kolej Powiatowa
Polish State Railways (PKP)
ClassPx38
Number in class805
Official nameLeon
Current ownerNarrow Gauge Railway Museum in Wenecja
Dispositionactive

History

In 1929 the First Locomotive Factory in Poland (Fablok) designed a W5A type locomotive, basing upon its earlier W2A type (PKP Tx26-427), and manufactured two units (later designated PKP class Px27). In 1938 another one slightly differing locomotive was ordered by Września County Railway (Wrzesińska Kolej Powiatowa), later to become Px38 class.[1] It was a D (0-8-0T) locomotive with a two-axle tender. It was powered by a simple twin engine, working on a saturated steam, developing 110 hp power output.[1]

The locomotive, factory no. 727, was given a stock number 5 (W.K.P. N°5).[1] It survived World War II, working on its railway. After the war, all county railways were taken over by the Polish State Railways (PKP) and in 1947 the locomotive was included into a collective PKP Px4 class and given a designation Px4-805. According to new regulations, in 1961 the locomotive was renumbered to Px38-805, being the only machine of Px38 class[1] (P - locomotive with a tender, x - D axle arrangement, 38 – Polish origin locomotive built in 1938).

In following years the locomotive was used on most of PKP 600 mm railways. From 1958 it stationed for a longer term in Myszyniec, and from 1973 in Białośliwie.[1] From 1983 it has been stationed in Żnin, currently on a museum railway of Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Wenecja. From 2002 the locomotive has a name Leon, in a memory of a Narrow Gauge Railway Museum guide Leon Lichociński.[2]

It has been active, as of 2015. In 2015 it left Poland for the first time, taking part in narrow gauge railway meetings in Germany and Pithiviers in France.[3]

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References
  1. Pokropiński (2016), p. 38-42, 204
  2. J. Kurowska-Ciechańska, A. Ciechański: Koleje. Carta blanca: Warsaw, 2008, p. 72 (in Polish)
  3. Hermann Schmidtendorf: Px38-805 po raz pierwszy za granicą in: „Świat Kolei” Nr. 9/2015 p. 7 (in Polish); Hermann Schmidtendorf: Px38-805 we Francji in: „Świat Kolei” Nr. 1/2016. p. 40 (in Polish)
  • Pokropiński, Bogdan (2016). Parowozy wąskotorowe produkcji polskiej [Narrow gauge steam locomotives of Polish manufacture] (in Polish). Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Komunikacji i Łączności. ISBN 978-83-206-1963-8..

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