RENFE 0-4-0 series 0200 to 2300

RENFE 0-4-0 series 0200 to 2300

The 0-4-0, or 0-8-0 in Whyte, known as “Eightwheeler” were the most used wheel arrangement for cargo trains in Spain during the XIX Century and also the first half of XX Century. During all this time, more than 30 different models of 0-4-0 locomotives were used by most Spanish companies. In 1941, the newly formed State company RENFE received more than 300 of this kind of locomotives grouped on the RENFE 0-4-0 series. This mod has several models of this cargo locomotive used by the early Spanish companies and their version in RENFE state company.

Models included:
RENFE 040 2000-2100(Ex-Norte 500/2500 series) Schneider et Cie, France, 1864
In 1864, to celebrate the completion of the lines Madrid-Hendaye by the Norte company and the Hendaye-Bordeux line by the French company MIDI, the MIDI company gave this 0-4-0 as a present to the Spanish company. This 0-4-0 locomotive was an early prototype of the model MIDI 2000. That loco had excellent results on the Madrid-Hendaye line, so the NORTE company ordered more locomotives of this kind, becoming the NORTE 500 series. Those 0-4-0 locomotives become the largest series of cargo locomotives used in the XIX Century in Spain, with more than 180 units built between 1865 and 1895. Those locomotives were retired in the late 1960s, all the locos had more than 90 years in service. The 0-4-0 2105, Ex-Norte 515 were retired in 1966 after 102 years in service, nowadays is preserved in the national railway museum in Madrid.

RENFE 040T 0280(Ex-Norte 2400 series) Yorkshire Engine Company, England, 1876
Those tanks locomotives were ordered in the 1870s by the British Yorkshire Engine Company to be used on mining lines. Built between 1876 and 1882 those locomotives had a power of 405 kW and a max speed of 60 Km/h. After the Spanish Civil War, the whole series was grouped in Basque Country and used for shunting operations on large stations. This model was retired in the early 70s.

RENFE 040 2200(Ex-Andalusian Nº 280 series) J.F. Cail, France, 1880
This eigth-wheelers locomotive, known as Doradas, (golden ones), due to their brass rings on the boiler, was used by the Andalusian railways for cargo and mixed trains in their mountain lines on the South of Spain. They were retired on mid-60s

RENFE 040 2100-2160(Ex-Norte 2560-2620 series) Hartmann maschinenfabrik, Germany, 1885
The Norte 2560 to 2640 were an evolution of the original 500 series. Those locomotives, built by the Hartmann Maschinenfabrik at Chemnitz, had a higher power, better tractive effort, and a counter-pressure brake system.

RENFE 040 2300(Ex-MZA 580 series) Sharp & Stewart, Scotland, 1890
Those Sharp & Stewart built locomotives were one of the fastest 0-4-0 used for cargo trains. Used by the Madrid-Zaragoza-Alicante railway in their Catalonia network.