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Prussian G 7.2
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by AG Vulcan Stettin· from 1895· class of German compound 0-8-0 locomotives
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5 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Bundesarchiv Bild 183-15765-0024, Dampflok 55 800 (BR 55): Schmidtke· CC BY-SA 3.0 de
- 2. G7.2 gravure 1899: H.W. Bennett· Public domain
- 3. Poslední převzatá G7.2 1919: Vincenc Čeřovský· Public domain
- 4. Preussische G7 2 Nr. 861: F. Fleury· Public domain
- 5. Prussian G 7 locomotive at Camp Williams, Is-sur-Tille, France, 9 June 1919 (111-SC-159682): Sgt. Musler, U.S. Army Signal Corps photo 111-SC-159682· Public domain
what is it?
The Prussian G 7.2 was a class of 0-8-0 tender compound locomotives of the Prussian state railways. In the 1925 renumbering plan of Deutsche Reichsbahn, the former Prussian locomotives produced from 1895 to 1911 were given the class designation 55.7–13; while the locomotives of former Mecklenburgische Friedrich-Franz-Eisenbahn (MFFE) locomotives were classified as 55.57.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 131 years ago, in 1895.
other: Railcars, inspection vehicles and other rolling stock.
spec sheet
- built
- 1895–1916
- number built
- 1,643
- kind
- other
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- AG Vulcan Stettin, Hanomag, Schichau-Werke, Linke-Hofmann, Berliner Maschinenbau, Henschel & Sohn, Hohenzollern Locomotive Works, Union Gießerei
- operators
- Prussian state railways, Deutsche Reichsbahn
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-8-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q474320, Wikipedia: Prussian G 7.2 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.