Foto- og billedsamlinger

Please help identify theese vehicles! 


All pictures from
Burmeister & Wain Diesel Engine factory
B&W museum, Copenhagen - Denmark


This one is identified thanks to Marc Schmitz (NL):

PLM "4 CMD 1" SNCF 040 DC 1, delivered in 1934, built by Schneider, length 10,83 m, wheelbase bogiecenters 5,20 m, bogies 2,40 m. Weight in working order 72t, max service speed 50 km/h (top speed 65 km/h).
Engine B&W - 625 VGL 34 - 6 cyl 600hp/440kW, 380 to 550 rpm.
Generator Schneider, 8 poles "force ventilated" - function also as start-motor.
Traction motors SW, 4 poles self-ventilated, reduction 4,31:1, nose suspended.

In 1955 the original engine was replaced by a MGO, V12 4-stroke turbo-charged 650 hp.
Also in 1955 the locomotives superstructure underwent a rebuild, now becomming symmetric.

From 1962 the registration number was SNCF BB 60021.

In 1973 the locomotive was rebuilt as a snow-plough, 5-Syw 998701, later Ua 998701, then 30-87-9747082-7 Ua. According to Loïc Fieux Les Locomotives BB de France, première partie, les diesels (ISBN 2-903651-28-0) this vehicle still existed in 1998.


This one also is identified thanks to Marc Schmitz (NL):

Built in 1933, order no. 8252, by Harland & Wolff. It is an 1-B° locomotive for use on the Ballynahich branch of the B&CDR (Belfast & County Down Railway). Rail guage 5ft 3in. Later passed on to Ulster Transport Authority and then sold back to H&W in 1951. Scrapped in 1969. Photo most likely from a trial run at Belfast Queen's Quay when new.

The engine was a Harland B&W 4 cyl. (2-stroke ?) 270 bhp at 850 rpm.
Harland & Wolff generator and two Laurence Scott traction motors. Length 28ft 7½in, wheelbase 12ft. Weight in working order 33,2 tons. Top speed 50 mph.

This information from ISBN 0-7153-6115-5: Brian Webb "The British Internal Combustion Locomotives 1894-1940", David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1973.

 


What (and where) on earth is this? Presumeably it had B&W engines.

The DMU is retouched on a picture of some mountains. But, was this project ever built and - if yes - to which railway company?. It was NOT for Norway!


Any information is welcome at


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