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DR Class 83.10
🇩🇪 East Germany ·built by Lokomotivbau Karl Marx Babelsberg· from 1955· class of 27 East German 2-8-4T locomotives
what is it?
The DR Class 83.10 was a newly designed (Neubaulok) steam locomotive built for the Deutsche Reichsbahn in East Germany after the Second World War and was introduced into service in 1955 and 1956. The 83.10 was intended for duties on branch lines where a top speed of 60 km/h and a driving wheel diameter of 1,250 mm was sufficient. The carrying wheels and first coupled wheels worked together in a Krauss-Helmholtz bogie.
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 71 years ago, in 1955.
- Weighs about as much as 12 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Served for 17 years (1955–1972).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1955–1956
- in service from
- 1955
- retired
- 1972
- status
- retired
- number built
- 27
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇩🇪 East Germany
- builders
- Lokomotivbau Karl Marx Babelsberg
- operators
- Deutsche Reichsbahn (GDR)
- top speed
- 60 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-8-4
- weight
- 70.9 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q164644, Wikipedia: DR Class 83.10 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.