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Netherlands c1930 (?)
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Robin Barnes - Railway Art and History |
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Nothing is known of this odd 1067 mm gauge back-to-back twin unit 0-6-2+2-6-0 rack and
adhesion design, other than a faded diagram, annotated in Dutch, that survives in present day
Indonesia. However, there may be little doubt it was intended for the steeply graded, part
rack operated coal railways of West Sumatra. These employed 0-8-2 and 0-10-0 types, but from
about 1930 traffic grew substantially and probably something more powerful was requested by
the operator, the Dutch Staats Spoorwegen (SS). With driving positions at both ends, two high
pressure Yarrow marine water tube boilers, each having two fireboxes with individual automatic
stokers, and its mechanical complication, it would have been a shed foreman's nightmare. The
originator is not known, but it may have been the joint brainchild of the innovative Dutch
builder Werkspoor and the Bureau of Engineering of the State Department of the Colonies.
Werkspoor 1930s (?) Coupled wheels 1100 mm Total wheelbase 10.0 m Height above rail 3700 mm Cylinder dimensions, weights, etc not indicated 
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