LDE – Robert Stephenson

Type and origin
Type and origin
Builder	Robert Stephenson & Co., Newcastle upon Tyne
Build date	1838 – 1840
Total produced	1

LDE - *ROBERT STEPHENSON*
LDE - ROBERT STEPHENSON
Builder
Type and origin
Builder	Robert Stephenson & Co., Newcastle upon Tyne
Build date	1838 – 1840
Total produced	1
Configuration:;
Specifications
Configuration:;
• Whyte	2-2-2
Gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Driver dia.	1,676 mm (5 ft 6.0 in)
Carrying wheel diameter	NK
Boiler:;
Heating tube length	2,438 mm (8 ft 0 in)
Boiler pressure	4,0 at
Heating surface:
• Evaporative	NK
Cylinders	2
Cylinder size	305 mm (12.0 in)
Piston stroke	457 mm (18.0 in)
Retired
Career
Retired	by 1860

The Robert Stephenson was an early, passenger train, tender locomotive operated by the Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company or LDE.

The locomotive was delivered to the LDE in 1838 by Robert Stephenson & Co., Newcastle upon Tyne, England, with factory number 205. It was retired sometime between 1857 and 1860.

Sources

Näbrich, Fritz; Meyer, Günter; Preuß, Reiner (1983). Lokomotivarchiv Sachsen 1 (in German). Berlin: transpress VEB Verlag für Verkehrswesen.^{[page needed]}
Näbrich, Fritz; Preuß, Reiner; Meyer, Günter (1984). Lokomotiven sächsischer Eisenbahnen, Schnellzug- und Personenzuglokomotiven (EFA 2.1) (in German). Düsseldorf: Alba. pp. 61, 191. ISBN 3-87094-096-4.
Preuß, Erich; Preuß, Rainer (1991). Sächsische Staatseisenbahnen (in German). Berlin: transpress Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. ISBN 3-344-70700-0.^{[page needed]}

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