#3547
DR Class 52.80
🇩🇪 East Germany ·built by ALSTOM Stendal· from 1960· class of 200 East German 2-10-0 locomotives rebuilt from Class 52.0
10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 52 8134 Hoentrop 2012-09-16: Tenderlok· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Locomotive BR52-8177-9: No machine-readable author provided. Olaf1541 assumed (based on copyright claims).· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3. DR 52 8079 Bw DD-Alt: User:Olaf1541 , User:Sandmann4u· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Locomotive BR52-8080-5: Olaf1541· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 5. 20050805.SEM Museumstag-BR 52 8080 u 8149: Bybbisch94, Christian Gebhardt· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. 20050805.SEM Museumstag-BR 52 8080.-021: Bybbisch94, Christian Gebhardt· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. 20050805.SEM Museumstag-BR 52 8080.-023: Bybbisch94, Christian Gebhardt· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. 20050925.Museumstag-BR 52 8150: Bybbisch94, Christian Gebhardt· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. 20050925.Museumstag-BR 52 8184 m Gz.d: Bybbisch94, Christian Gebhardt· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. 20071028.BR 52 Hilbersdorf.-009: Bybbisch94, Christian Gebhardt· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Rekolokomotives of DR Class 52.80 first appeared in 1960 in service with Deutsche Reichsbahn in East Germany as extensive rebuilds of the wartime locomotives or Kriegslokomotiven of DRB Class 52 built by Nazi Germany. This modernisation, described as 'reconstruction' (Rekonstruktion, hence Rekolokomotive), extended to almost all of the components and systems on the engine.
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 66 years ago, in 1960.
- 23 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 30 years (1960–1990).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1960
- in service from
- 1960
- retired
- 1990
- status
- retired
- number built
- 200
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇩🇪 East Germany
- builders
- ALSTOM Stendal
- operators
- Deutsche Reichsbahn (GDR)
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-10-0
- length
- 23 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q876127, Wikipedia: DR Class 52.80 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.