The Pegasus was an early,
passenger train
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tender locomotive
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operated by the
Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company
The Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company ( or LDE) was a private railway company in the Kingdom of Saxony, now a part of Germany. Amongst other things, it operated the Leipzig–Dresden railway, route between Leipzig and Dresden, opened in 1839, and w ...
or LDE. She was one of the first locomotives to be built in
Germany
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[Sonderdruck "100 Jahre Haubold", C. G. Haubold, 1937. Seite 13.]
History
The ''PEGASUS'' was built in 1839, the first locomotive to be built by the
Sächsische Maschinenbau-Compagnie in
Chemnitz
Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt (); ; ) is the third-largest city in the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden, and the fourth-largest city in the area of former East Germany after (East Be ...
. In 1842, after a long period of trials, she was bought by the Leipzig-Dresden Railway Compagnie for 6250
talers. The unusable locomotive
''COLUMBUS'' was used in part-payment. The design of the ''PEGASUS'' was based on the English locomotive
''STURM''.
In 1862/63 the engine was retired from the LDE.
See also
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Royal Saxon State Railways
The Royal Saxon State Railways () were the state-owned railways operating in the Kingdom of Saxony from 1869 to 1918. From 1918 until their merger into the Deutsche Reichsbahn the title 'Royal' was dropped and they were just called the Saxon State ...
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List of Saxon locomotives and railbuses
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Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company
The Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company ( or LDE) was a private railway company in the Kingdom of Saxony, now a part of Germany. Amongst other things, it operated the Leipzig–Dresden railway, route between Leipzig and Dresden, opened in 1839, and w ...
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2-2-2 locomotives
Locomotives of Saxony
Sächsische Maschinenfabrik locomotives
Early steam locomotives
Standard-gauge locomotives of Germany
Passenger locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1839