Bavarian Eastern Railway Company - Locomotives and Wagons

Locomotives and Wagons

It should be mentioned at the outset that all the locomotives bought by the Bavarian Ostbahn were built by J.A. Maffei in Munich. This is understandable because Maffei's managing director had played a key role in the provision of start-up capital for the Ostbahn. From that fund, the company had earmarked 6.6 million gulden for the procurement of vehicles. In addition to locomotives, the company planned to purchase of 200 passenger coaches, 30 luggage vans, 720 covered vans and 398 open wagons for various purposes.

On December 1857 the company procured Crampton locomotives (Class A) with a 4-2-0 wheel arrangement for fast passenger services. These 12 engines had 1,219 mm diameter carrying wheels and 1,829 mm diameter driving wheels. From 1859 a further 12 engines were bought from Maffei with a wheel arrangement of 2-2-2. All the engines were rebuilt in 1869 to 2-4-0 and grouped as Class B locomotives.

In the early period, no goods-only trains were operated; instead goods wagons were attached to the passenger trains. For these mixed trains and, later on, the passenger-only trains, a total of 85 Class B locomotives with a 2-4-0 wheel arrangement were procured over the years.

Not until 1862 did the Ostbahn procure Class C six-coupled engines with a 0-6-0 arrangement and, initially, with large wheels, 1,524 mm in diameter. A total of 64 such locomotives were bought in various wheel sizes, later mainly with a 1,253 mm diameter, that also hauled goods-only trains from 1867.

The Ostbahn procured 12 Class D tank locomotives and two more were taken over from the Deggendorf-Plattling Railway.

/*after rebuilding into 2-4-0 engines around 1870

Details of the individual locomotive classes may be found in the List of Bavarian locomotives and railbuses.