Ethiopia, Gare de Nazareth (modern Adama), 1955, SACM (SLM) 2-8-0 401-413 class No 410, from Le Chemin de Fer Franco-Ethiopien et Djibouto-Ethiopien https://www.train-franco-ethiopien.com
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In 1939, CIY purchased from Chemin de Fer Franco-Ethiopien six 400 class 2-8-0 (140) "Consolidation" locomotives, which had been manufactured to an SACM design by the Swiss company Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik (SLM) of Winterthur. They arrived in Indochina in January 1940 (415, 417, 418 and 419 at Saigon, 414 and 416 at Hải Phòng) and were put into service in April 1940, with the new numbering CIY 161-166. When the cross-border link was severed in September 1940, 161-165 were stranded in Yunnan and only one - No 166 - remained in Indochina.
While the fate of No 166 is not known, the history of the other five "Consolidation" locomotives in Yunnan is well documented. After 1943, two of the Yunnan-based 400 class locomotives remained on the ex-CIY Kūnmíng-Hékǒu line, while the other three were deployed on the Chuāndiān (Sìchuān-Yúnnán) Railway 川滇铁路, a 1m line built by the National Government of the Republic of China from 1938 but only partially completed due to war. In 1948, the management of both these 1m gauge lines was unified under the Kūnmíng District Railway Administration. When the 1m gauge Chuāndiān Railway closed in 1958 to make way for the new 1.435m gauge Guìkūn (Guìyáng-Kūnmíng) Railway 贵昆铁路, its three ex-CFE 400 class locomotives were reunited with their other two classmates on the Kūnmíng-Hékǒu line, which had been reopened in 1956 as a secondary supply route into North Việt Nam.
In the 1950s, the five Yunnan-based ex-CFE "Consolidation" locomotives were designated as China Railways class KD52, with running numbers 401-405. They were deployed on the 1m gauge Kūnmíng-Hékǒu line until the late 1970s, and in this capacity they would have been regular visitors to North Việt Nam at the head of military supply trains.
Ethiopia, Gare de Nazareth (modern Adama), 1955, SACM (SLM) 2-8-0 401-413 class No 410, from Le Chemin de Fer Franco-Ethiopien et Djibouto-Ethiopien https://www.train-franco-ethiopien.com
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In 1939, CIY purchased from Chemin de Fer Franco-Ethiopien six 400 class 2-8-0 (140) "Consolidation" locomotives, which had been manufactured to an SACM design by the Swiss company Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik (SLM) of Winterthur. They arrived in Indochina in January 1940 (415, 417, 418 and 419 at Saigon, 414 and 416 at Hải Phòng) and were put into service in April 1940, with the new numbering CIY 161-166. When the cross-border link was severed in September 1940, 161-165 were stranded in Yunnan and only one - No 166 - remained in Indochina.
While the fate of No 166 is not known, the history of the other five "Consolidation" locomotives in Yunnan is well documented. After 1943, two of the Yunnan-based 400 class locomotives remained on the ex-CIY Kūnmíng-Hékǒu line, while the other three were deployed on the Chuāndiān (Sìchuān-Yúnnán) Railway 川滇铁路, a 1m line built by the National Government of the Republic of China from 1938 but only partially completed due to war. In 1948, the management of both these 1m gauge lines was unified under the Kūnmíng District Railway Administration. When the 1m gauge Chuāndiān Railway closed in 1958 to make way for the new 1.435m gauge Guìkūn (Guìyáng-Kūnmíng) Railway 贵昆铁路, its three ex-CFE 400 class locomotives were reunited with their other two classmates on the Kūnmíng-Hékǒu line, which had been reopened in 1956 as a secondary supply route into North Việt Nam.
In the 1950s, the five Yunnan-based ex-CFE "Consolidation" locomotives were designated as China Railways class KD52, with running numbers 401-405. They were deployed on the 1m gauge Kūnmíng-Hékǒu line until the late 1970s, and in this capacity they would have been regular visitors to North Việt Nam at the head of military supply trains.