Egyptian Republic Railways 4211 class | |
Powertype: | diesel |
Builder: | Arnold Jung Lokomotivfabrik[1] |
Serialnumber: | 1955–56 batch 12161–12187 |
Builddate: | 1953; 1955–56 |
Totalproduction: | 42 |
Whytetype: | 0-6-0 |
Locoweight: | 66.2LT[2] |
Cylindercount: | 8 |
Cylindersize: | 8.5x |
Poweroutput: | 360 bhp |
Operator: | Egyptian State Railways |
Operatorclass: | 4211 |
Numinclass: | 42 |
Fleetnumbers: | 4211 – 4252 |
Nicknames: | "Abdel Nasser" (in Israel) |
Locale: | Egypt; after 1956 one in Israel |
Deliverydate: | 1953; 1955–56 |
Firstrundate: | 1953 |
Disposition: | one captured by Israel in 1956 and scrapped 1970 |
The Egyptian Republic Railways 4211 class was a class of 0-6-0 diesel shunter introduced on Egyptian Republic Railways (now Egyptian National Railways) in the 1950s. Arnold Jung Lokomotivfabrik in Jungenthal, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany built the first batch of 15 in 1953 and the second batch of 27 in 1955–56.[1]
During the 1956 Israeli invasion of Sinai number 4239 (Jung works number 21646) was captured in Sinai[3] on the former Palestine Railways line between El Kantara East and Gaza. It was taken into Israel Railways and renumbered 251.[2] It was little used and in about 1970 it was scrapped.[3]