Heeresfeldbahnlokomotive HF 160 D

HF 160 D
ÖBB 699.01
Type and origin Builder Société Franco-Belge Build date 1944-45
Specifications Configuration: ​  • Whyte 0-8-0  • UIC D Gauge 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) and 760 mm (2 ft 5+15⁄16 in) Tender weight 12,5 t Tender type 2T6 Fuel capacity 0,5 t * + 2,5 t ** Water cap. 0,6 m3 * + 6m3 ** Cylinders 2 Valve gear Walschaerts (Heusinger)
Performance figures Maximum speed 25 km/h Indicated power 160 PSi
Career Numbers ÖBB 699.01-03 ÖBB 699.101-104 (rebuild) SKGLB 19 W&LLR No. 10 Retired 1968
*) Loco capacity **) Tender capacity

Club 760 699.01 in red tourist railway livery on the Taurach Railway in Mauterndorf

Tank loco 699.103 at Aschach an der Steyr station on the Steyr Valley Railway

The German narrow gauge steam locomotives of military field railway (Heeresfeldbahn) class HF 160 D were 0-8-0 tender locomotives developed for wartime service during the Second World War. The engines were also classified as Kriegsdampflokomotive 11 (wartime steam locomotive 11) or KDL 11. After the war the locomotives were put to use for civilian purposes.

HF 160 D in Austria

In the Austrian Federal Railway (ÖBB), the locomotives were grouped into Class 699. Class 699.1 was a rebuild of the engines into tank locomotives. Class 699 engines could be encountered on several ÖBB narrow gauge railways: the Bregenzerwald Railway, the Pinzgau Railway, the Waldviertel Narrow Gauge Railway, the Vellach Valley Railway and the Steyr Valley Railway. Six engines had been retired by 1973, number 699.103 belonged to the operating fleet of the Steyrtalbahn until its withdrawal in 1982.

Post 1945

• Société Franco-Belge 2817/1944: HF 2817 → ÖBB 699.101 → Gurk Valley Railway 699.101, operational
• Société Franco-Belge 2818/1944: HF 2818 → ÖBB 699.01 → Club 760 699.01, working, in use on the Taurachbahn
• Société Franco-Belge 2819/1944: HF 2819 → ÖBB 699.102
• Société Franco-Belge 2821/1944: HF 2821 → ÖBB 699.103
• Société Franco-Belge 2822/1944: HF 2822 → ÖBB 699.02 → ? → Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin, not working
• Société Franco-Belge 2836/1945: ? → CFCD No. 10, working, Chemin de fer Froissy-Dompierre (APPEVA), France
• Société Franco-Belge 2843/1945: ? → AMTP Nr. 4-12, converted to 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) rail gauge, working, Pithiviers, France; L'Association du Musée des Transports de Pithiviers
• Société Franco-Belge 2844/1945: ? → No. unknown, converted to 600 mm rail gauge, not working, Bligny sur Ouches, France, http://www.lepetittraindebligny.com/
• Société Franco-Belge 2845/1945: ? → Le Petit Train de la Vallee de la Doller (1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)), France (loco converted to standard gauge)
• Société Franco-Belge 2855/1944: HF 2855 → SKGLB 19 –without tender→ STLB 699.01 → W&LLR No. 10 Sir Drefaldwyn, Powys, Wales, Great Britain
• Société Franco-Belge 2856/1944: HF 2856 → ÖBB 699.03
• Société Franco-Belge 2857/1944: HF 2857 → ÖBB 699.104

See also

• Heeresfeldbahn - German military field railways

References

• Krobot; Slezak; Sternhart (1991). Schmalspurig durch Österreich. Vol. 4. Verlag Slezak. ISBN 3-85416-095-X.
• Slezak; Sternhar (1986). Renaissance der Schmalspurbahn in Österreich. Verlag Slezak. ISBN 3-85416-097-6.
• Strässle (1997). Schmalspurbahn-Aktivitäten in Österreich. Verlag Slezak. ISBN 3-85416-184-0.
• Zoubek, Dieter (2004). Erhaltene Dampflokomotiven in und aus Österreich. Eigenverlag. ISBN 3-200-00174-7.
• Fritz, Herbert (1986). "KDL 11 - Kriegsdampflokomotive 11 - Von der Heeresfeldbahn zur ÖBB-Reihe 699". Club 760. Eigenverlag.