DRG Class 99.19 [SEP] service entry
DRG Class 99.19
The DRG Class 99.19 engines were metre gauge, ten-coupled, superheated, steam locomotives that were employed in the southwestern German state of Württemberg from 1927.
In fact this class was to have been procured by the Royal Württemberg State Railways ("Königlich Württembergische Staats-Eisenbahnen") as the Class Ts 5, however the intervention of the First World War and the serious economic situation that followed put paid to that.
In 1927 the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft ordered the construction of four of these
in 1977, which meant that primarily electric locomotives were used on the railway after 1977. Also in 1977, the Bundesbahn decided to close numerous stations and halts to enable "express-like travel", with higher speeds, even in local service trains.
After the section between Böblingen und Stuttgart was electrified in 1963, initially it was locomotives of the DRG class E 17, DB Class 141, DRG Class E 44, and DRB Class ET 55, which saw service. These were then replaced with DRG Class ET