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Paris-Orléans No. 4201 to 4370

French State Railway 230 G 201 bis 264 und 312 bis 370, 230 K 401 bis 451

France 1915 170 produced
4243 on a North British works photo flickr/Historical Railway Images

The ten-wheelers with the numbers 4201 to 4370 were built for the Paris-Orléans from 1915 onwards for express, passenger and freight trains. During the First World War, some of the locomotives were built by North British in Scotland and a total of 170 had been built by 1922. They shared the boiler and cylinders with other ten-wheelers and with the 2-8-2T tank locomotives of the series 5301.

In 1924 and 1925, 21 were sold to Morocco. From 1929 onwards, the remaining ones received smoke deflectors after tests by André Chapelon. When the SNCF was founded in 1938, the locomotives that came directly from the PO were given the designation 230 G and those that had since gone to the État were given the designation 230 K. In 1947 and 1948, 14 locomotives that were used in wooded areas got oil firing. They were retired until 1970 and the 230 G 352 and 353 are still preserved today. The 353 could be seen in many films since the seventies.

SNCF 230 G 353 in June 2014 at the exhibition of the “Institute of the Arab World” in Paris Yann Caradec / CC BY-SA 2.0

Technical data

General

Built
1915-1922
Manufacturers
Batignolles-Châtillon, SACM, North British
Wheel arrangement
4-6-0 (Ten-wheeler)
Gauge
1,435 mm (Standard gauge)

Dimensions and weights

Length
16.73 m
Length loco
11.44 m
Wheelbase
7.70 m
Service mass
67.8 t
Adhesion mass
48.6 t
Total mass
107.7 t
Rigid wheelbase
3.90 m
Axle load
16.2 t
Water capacity
17,000 l
Fuel capacity
4 t (coal)

Boiler

Grate area
2.73 m²
Firebox surface
14.4 m²
Tube heating surface
132.9 m²
Evaporative heating surface
147.3 m²
Superheater surface
37.08 m²
Total heating surface
184.4 m²

Power plant

Driver diameter
1,750 mm
Boiler pressure
13 bar
Expansion type
simple expansion
Cylinders
two, 500 x 650 mm

Power

Power source
steam
Estimated power
900 kW (1,224 PS)
Top speed
100 km/h
Starting effort
102.6 kN

Calculated values

Factor of adhesion
1 : 4.65
Optimal speed
53 km/h
Power-to-weight ratio
13.3 kW/t
Heating Surface Equivalent
293.5 m²
Cylinder volume/HSE
1 : 869.81
Adhesive weight/Total
1 : 1.40
Tractive force/Heating surface
1 : 11.62
Grate area/Heating surface
1 : 67.54
Firebox/Tube surface
1 : 9.23
Total/Superheater
1 : 3.97
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