Full-grip locomotives; Lagny type

Description of the Lagny type locomotive

These locomotives, of Fives-Lille construction, belonged to the manufacturer's type 65 and had an interior chassis. Their boiler had a bulky dome on the front shell and the balance valves were mounted on the flat hearth. The fire box was of the Crampton type. The outer cylinders attacked the third axle, favouring yawing movements aggravated by a reduced wheelbase of 1,720 m. The flat drawers were governed by a Stephenson's two eccentric and slide distribution.

They had no shelter and the water boxes extended to the front of the machine, which gave them a very special look.

As soon as they entered the C.F.D. park, the Villeneuve-le-Comte workshops installed a shelter with two portholes protected by visors at the front and rear. The primitive Giffard injectors were replaced by Friedman injectors during their lifting.

They were painted black and had polished brass licence plates at the base and on either side of the chimney. A plate bearing the name "L'Anguille" for No. 2 and "La Seine" for No. 4 was fixed on their sides at the height of the steam intake dome. The company had its initials painted on the front and rear crossbeams in white on a vermilion red background on either side of the central stamp on No. 2, No. 4 having been given to the Seine-et-Marne Department in 1902 because of its poor condition. It should be pointed out that until that date these machines were equipped with the double buffer system and that it was only when the final equipment arrived that the central buffer was used.

Delivery and assignment of the Lagny type locomotive

Machine no. 2 was used on the line until 1908, when it was withdrawn from service because of its low power. It was, for a moment, considered to be handed over to the Department of Seine-et-Marne, but negotiations between the latter and the Company led to its abandonment to the C.F.D. for the purpose of its sale and the use of the proceeds to purchase a new machine. Finally, the C.F.D. dismantled it and sent the chassis to Toulon-sur-Arroux and the boiler to Chablis for repair. It seems that Toulon-sur-Arroux was chosen for its final reassembly because of its future use in the Gueugnon railway station to provide a service to the Etablissements Campionnet (Forges de Gueugnon). This reassembly did indeed take place in Toulon-sur-Arroux in 1912, but it seems that its use by the Company was short-lived because, as early as 1914, it was acquired by the same Forges de Gueugnon to ensure the operation of the trains inside their factory. Registered 51, it began its service on May 1, 1914.

This locomotive was not yet definitively out of the hands of the Company, since some thirty years later, in its Montmirail workshops, the Company transformed it into a locotractor for the Forges de Gueugnon. This last machine with the No. 105 lining was delivered to Gueugnon in 1948.

(1) Sold in 1914

(2) Surrendered to the Seine-et-Marne Department in 1902

(3) Solvay Dombasia tractor

source : MTVS 1988-4