The Saxon Class III were early, four-coupled, tender locomotives operated by the Royal Saxon State Railways for express services. The

Deutsche Reichsbahn The ''Deutsche Reichsbahn'' (), also known as the German National Railway, the German State Railway, German Reich Railway, and the German Imperial Railway, was the Weimar Republic, German national Rail transport, railway system created after th ...

grouped these engines in 1925 into their DRG Class 34.76.

History

The Saxon III was built in 1871 and 1872 by the Hartmann (66 examples) and the

Maschinenfabrik Esslingen Maschinenfabrik Esslingen (ME) was a German engineering firm that manufactured locomotives, tramways, railway wagons, roll-blocks, technical equipment for the railways, (turntable (rail), turntables and traverser (railway), traversers), bridges, s ...

(21 examples). Fourteen of the Esslingen engines were subsequently given a Nowotny-Klien bogie instead of the original fixed leading wheels and were then reclassified as the IIIb. The

Reichsbahn The ''Deutsche Reichsbahn'' (), also known as the German National Railway, the German State Railway, German Reich Railway, and the German Imperial Railway, was the German national railway system created after the end of World War I from the re ...

only took over one of the unmodified engines - no. 274 ''BRÜNN'' and number her as locomotive 34 7611.

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