Austrian Southern Railway class 32c

The class 32c of the Südbahn was a 0-6-0 freight locomotive and a direct successor of the 32a and 32b. Like its predecessors, it had a boiler overhanging at the front and the rear, but its Stephenson valve gear was now installed inside the frames. For use on steep lines, it had two steam domes. After only 21 of the predecessor classes had been built, a total of 73 members of the class 32c were built between 1884 and 1900. They came from the StEG factory, from Wiener Neustadt, from Floridsdorf and from MÁVAG.

Although designed as freight locomotives, they were also used for other types of trains. They could be found on the Semmering, in South Tyrol, in the Puster Valley, on the Karst and in Hungary. After World War I, only 20 remained in Austria and became BBÖ class 58. The last one of these was taken over by the Reichsbahn in 1938 and was now numbered 53 7121.

18 locomotives which had been in use in Hungary now became class 333 of the MÁV. The last one of these survived until 1966. With 29, the Italian FS was now the largest user of the 32c. Here they became gruppo 333 and most were already retired in the twenties. Of the last four, three were retired in 1932 and the last one in 1934.