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Locomotives LVCI 1-50, 155-164
🇮🇹 Italy ·built by Robert Stephenson and Company· from 1857· class of 50 Austro-Hungarian (later Italian) 2-2-2 (later 2-4-0) locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. FS 102 bw: Unknown photographer· Public domain
- 2. FS 102: Anonymous Unknown author· Public domain
what is it?
Locomotives LVCI 1-50 and 155-164 were 2-2-2 steam locomotives of the LVCI built for service on the railways of the Lombard-Veneto Kingdom. Numbers 1-50 were built by Robert Stephenson & Company and numbers 155-164 were built by Beyer, Peacock & Company.
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 169 years ago, in 1857.
- Weighs about as much as 5 African elephants (~6 t each).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1857–1858
- number built
- 50
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- builders
- Robert Stephenson and Company, Beyer, Peacock and Company
- operators
- Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, Austrian Southern Railway Company, Società per le strade ferrate dell'Alta Italia, Società per le Strade Ferrate del Mediterraneo, Lombardisch-venetianische Eisenbahnen, Rete Adriatica
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-2-2
- length
- 7.5 m
- weight
- 27.6 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1798412, Wikipedia: Locomotives LVCI 1-50, 155-164 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.