The Archive · 1936

NEW RAILWAY

First Locomotive Arrives for Kiangsi Line

August of last year the Chokia Kiangst United Railway Corporation Placed an order with Messrs. Otto Wolff Koeln (China Branch) for six heavy locomotives of the 2-0-2 type by the German locomotive works of Messrs. Henschel & Sohn A, Gy Hassel, The first of the six engines arrived already at Shanghai in. the inv. Havel, the rest being shipped with the vessels Ramses, Goslar, and Burgenland.

The engines were designed and constructed according to the specification of the Chekiang-Kiangs! Tallway. The materials used are In accordance with the conditions of the German [State Railways. The construction wes

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