Belgian locomotives

Belgian locomotives

In 1940 after the " Blitzkrieg " in the West, Germany demanded Belgium to return those small areas which she had to be ceded to Belgium according to Versailles Peace Treaty on 28.06.1919. In addition Germany demanded EB locomotives ( so called Armistice Locomotives ) to be also ceded to DRB to operate the railway lines on the area. Belgium ceded to Germany number of locomotives which were renumbered and incorporated to DRB numbering scheme. After June 1941 a number of these wandered to Eastern Europe and were captured as German property by advancing Red Army in 1944-1945.

Those which were taken into NKPS locomotive stock are listed below:

EB 8129 -> DRB 55.5668 D-h2 Bors 9247 1915 MPS T55.5668 + 11.1948 ( Damaged )

EB 8404 -> DRB 55.5675 D-h2 Vulc 3426 1918 MPS T55.5675 + 20.02.1951 -> ?

EB 8562 -> DRB 55.5680 D-h2 Hens 12047 1912 MPS T55.5680 1945 -> Industrial use

EB 8674 -> DRB 55.5684 D-h2 Vulc 3351 1918 MPS T55.5684 1947 -> Industrial use

EB 8134 -> DRB 55.5686 D-h2 Schw 5818 1916 MPS T55.5686 1947 -> Industrial use

EB 8177 -> DRB 55.5687 D-h2 Hano 8617 1918 MPS T55.5687 1946 -> Industrial use

EB 8370 -> DRB 55.5691 D-h2 Wolf 881 1917 MPS T55.5691 + 11.1948 ( Damaged )

EB 8506 -> DRB 55.5692 D-h2 SA.G 7031 1918 MPS T55.5692 + 20.02.1951 -> ?

EB 8602 -> DRB 55.5697 D-h2 Hens 13518 1915 MPS T55.5697 + 11.1948 ( Damaged )

EB 8664 -> DRB 55.5699 D-h2 Hano 8385 1918 MPS T55.5699 1946 -> Industrial use

EB 9307 -> DRB 91.1837 1Ct-n2 Hohz 1814 1905 MPS T91.1837 1945 -> Industrial use

EB 9348 -> DRB 91.1841 1Ct-n2 Jung 775 1905 MPS T91.1841 JuVo + 18.08.1955

But this was not enough.Germany demanded Belgium to " lease " the remaining " Armistice Locomotives " to DRB.Some of these were allocoted to RBD KBG and fell into Russian hands in 1945. These " Leihlok " had an yellow ribbon painted around the chimney.

EB 7001 D-n2 Hano 4131 1904 MPS T55.7001 MPD Klaipeda 1946 -> Industrial use

EB 7035 D-n2 Hens 14001 1916 MPS T55.7035 MPD ? + 20.02.1951 -> ?

EB 7091 D-n2 LiHo 1371 1916 MPS T55.7091 MPD Klaipeda 1946 -> Industrial use

EB 7125 D-n2 Hens 7863 1906 MPS T55.7125 MPD Klaipeda 1947 -> Industrial use

EB 8382 D-h2 Hano 8501 1918 MPS T55.8382 MPD Liepaja 1952 -> Industrial use

EB 8523 D-h2 Hens 13142 1915 MPS T55.8523 MPD ? 1952 -> industrial use

EB 9815 Et-h2 Schw 4545 1910 . . 31.12.1944 RBD KBG 1945 -> Industrial use

EB 9817 Et-h2 Schw 4820 1912 MPS T94.9817 + 18.08.1951 -> ?

EB 9827 Et-h2 Schw 4744 1911 MPS T94.9827 MPD Kaliningrad + 01.1957

EB 9828 Et-h2 Schw 5124 1913 MPS T94.9828 1947 -> Industrial use

EB 9836 Et-h2 Schw 5766 1915 31.12.1944 RBD KBG 1945 -> Industrial use

EB 9839 Et-h2 Schw 4403 1909 MPS T94.9839 1947 -> Industrial use

EB 9849 Et-h2 Schw 6172 1917 MPS T94.9849 1950 -> Industrial use

EB 9853 Et-h2 Schw 6361 1917 . . 31.12.1944 RBD KBG 1945 -> Industrial use

EB 9862 Et-h2 Schw 6079 1917 . . 31.12.1944 RBD KBG 1945 -> Industrial use

EB 9931 Dt-n2 Hohz 3425 1915 MPS T98.231 Stalin Zh.D 1945 -> Industrial use

After the war in 1945 most of EB locomotives which were found in West Germany and Austria,except some badly damaged locomotives,were returned to Belgium.But those which were in SBZ ( Soviet Occupation Zone ) and behind the " Iron Curtain " were not. Those are listed below which for sure were taken over by Soviet Occupying Adminstation ( later renamed to Soviet Control Committee ) and dissapeared without any further trace.

EB 5313 Dt-n2 Ragh 38 1925 17.12.1951 -> EAW ( Railway Workshop ) for ?

EB 5393 Dt-n2 . . . 17.12.1951 -> EAW ( Railway Workshop ) for ?

EB 5446 Dt-n2 Leon 1484 1906 20.12.1951 -> EAW ( Railway Workshop ) for ?

EB 5478 Dt-n2 Zimm 669 1908 18.08.1951 -> Sold ?

EB 5610 Dt-n2 Carel 447 1906 17.12.1951 -> EAW ( Railway Workshop ) for ?

EB 5638 Dt-n2 Meuse 1841 1904 17.12.1951 -> EAW ( Railway Workshop ) for ?

EB 5642 Dt-n2 Meuse 1843 1904 17.12.1951 -> EAW ( Railway Workshop ) for ?

EB 5657 Dt-n2 Zimm 645 1906 17.12.1951 -> EAW ( Railway Workshop ) for ?

EB 6468 2C-h2 Humb 1242 1917 17.12.1951 -> EAW ( Railway Workshop ) for ?

EB 7241 D-n2v Hano 5107 1907 05.08 1949 -> Sold to Derutra ( German-Russian Trade Organisation ) -> ?

EB 8251 D-h2 Jung 2617 1917 05.08.1949 -> AG Wismut ( + 1953 ? )

EB 8314 D-h2 Hano 8190 1917 1950 -> ? ( came from Czechoslovakia )

EB 9783 1D1t-h2 Unio 2239 1915 04.06.1947 -> SMA-D Soviet Occupation Adminstration -> ?

EB 9848 Et-h2 Schw 6075 1916 17.12.1951 -> EAW ( Railway Workshop ) for ?

Belgian 50.104 Ct-n2 . . . 30.04.1947 -> SMA-D Soviet Occupation Adminstration -> ?

Meuse = Ateliers de Construction de la Meuse,Sclessin
Ragh = Usines Ragheno,Muizen pres de Malines
Zimm = Zimmermann-Hanrez et Cie,Monceau-sur-Sambre

These former EB locomotives were found in 1945 from one of amber deposites in Samland Peninsula East Prussia:

EB 2102 1C-n2 FrBe 862 1893 type 6bis new boiler 1909 NKPS / MPS T37.2102

EB 2105 1C-n2 FrBe 865 1893 type 6bis new boiler 1909 NKPS / MPS T37.2105

EB 2107 1C-n2 Coui 1045 1892 type 16 new boiler 1910 NKPS / MPS T37.2107

EB 2108 1C-n2 Coui 1046 1892 type 16 new boiler 1910 NKPS / MPS T37.2108

EB 2109 1C-n2 Coui 1047 1892 type 16 new boiler 1910 NKPS / MPS T37.2109

EB 2110 1C-n2 Coui 1048 1892 type 16 new boiler 1910 NKPS / MPS T37.2110

EB 2112 1C-n2 FrBe 877 1893 type 16 new boiler 1910 NKPS / MPS T37.2112

These confiscated Belgian Ct-n2 industrial locomotives ( transferred by the Germans to Estonia for use by Baltische гl ) also dissapeared:

T 1 Ct-n2 type Maurage FrBe 2548 1943 ex 50.101

T 2 Ct-n2 type Maurage FrBe 2549 1943 ex 50.102

T 3 Ct-n2 type Maurage FrBe 2550 1943 ex 50.103

T 4 Ct-n2 type Maurage FrBe 2579 1943 ex 50.105

T 5 Ct-n2 type Maurage FrBe 2580 1943 ex 50.106

T 6 Ct-n2 type Maurage FrBe 2581 1943 ex 50.107

T 7 Ct-n2 type Maurage FrBe 2582 1943 ex 50.108

T 8 Ct-n2 type Maurage FrBe 2583 1943 ex 50.109

T 1,4,5,8 9.1944 FBw Valga.
T 2 and T 4 were regauged to 1524 mm and were used at Kohtla Jдrve. T 2 dissapears but T 4 was was given in 1958 to MPS Eesti Raudtee and scrapped +1959.

Jukka Nurminen