#2624· DRB Baureihe 01.10
DRB Class 01.10
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Berliner Maschinenbau· from 1939· class of German three-cylinder 4-6-2 locomotives
3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 01-1102-am-12-09-09-SEH: © Sam Gamdschie / Wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. Denkmal-Dampflok BR 01 1063: JoachimKohler-HB· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Crosshead DRG Class 01 3D: TeWeBs· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Deutsche Reichsbahn Class 01.10 was a series of express steam locomotives. Developed at the end of the 1930s it was part of the standard locomotive programme (Einheitsdampflokomotiven). Modernized in the 1950s, the class lasted almost until the end of steam operation at the West German Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB).
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 87 years ago, in 1939.
- Served for 36 years (1939–1975).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1939–1940
- in service from
- 1939
- retired
- 1975
- status
- retired
- number built
- 55
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Berliner Maschinenbau
- operators
- Deutsche Reichsbahn, Deutsche Bundesbahn
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-6-2
- Dutch name
- DRB Baureihe 01.10
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q241644, Wikipedia: DRB Class 01.10 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.