Klien-Lindners built by Du Croo & Brauns

Very much like the mallets the Klien-Lindners appear to have been of one basic design varying mostly in appliances to meet customer demands. All had 650mm drivers but the last three (700mm). All principle dimensions (length, width, height) were the same for all engines.

Yet the population of 47 is somewhat more heterogenous than the mallets.

• There were essentially three power classes, 75-80, 90 and 100hp. The various power classes were built intermixed over an extended period of time and not succesively as with the mallets.
• Like the mallets 700mm gauge was dominant but unlike the mallets the mallets were also built to other gauges: 7 to 600mm, 3 to 670mm,
  1 to 720mm and 1 to 750, so twelve in total.
• Though most engines were built with 245 mm cylinders, there were four other cylinder diameters

Seven engines were provided with an auxiliary tender

 

Like the mallets the Klien-Lindners had extremely long working lives, some of them being recorded as recent as 2006. I guess by now all steam activity will have ceased.

Klien-Lindner were reputed bad runners. The swivelling axles tended to have a life of their own. Unsteady running at higher speeds and being prone to derailment were the faults. Du Croo & Brauns interconnected both KL axles stabilizing each other and so improving running behaviour.

Du Croo and Brauns 0-8-0T at Tersana Baru in 2002. The tender is not originally supplied by the manufacturer.
It looks very much like a later home brewn contraption
Photo courtesy © http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/

 

Du Croo & Brauns 0-8-0T No.11 stands at the top of the mill yard during a pause from shunting duties in 2004.

Photo courtesy: ©David Longman

 

The still working Du Croo & Brauns 0-8-0T No.10 seen at the rear of Sumberharjo mill in August 2006.

Photo courtesy: ©David Longman