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Württemberg AD
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Maschinenfabrik Esslingen· from 1899· German steam locomotive
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Tübingen, Dampflok, März 1905: Photographer: Unknown author Unknown author Publisher: Gebrüder Metz· Public domain
what is it?
The Württemberg AD was a German steam locomotive built for the Royal Württemberg State Railways. It was an express train engine with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement and was built from 1899 by the Maschinenfabrik Esslingen ('Esslingen Engineering Works'). Up to that point the railway only had increasingly elderly locomotives with a 2-4-0 configuration.
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 127 years ago, in 1899.
- Served for 33 years (1899–1932).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1899–1909
- in service from
- 1899
- retired
- 1932
- status
- retired
- number built
- 115
- kind
- steam locomotive
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- Maschinenfabrik Esslingen
- operators
- Deutsche Reichsbahn, Royal Württemberg State Railways
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q879215, Wikipedia: Württemberg AD (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.