Club 760 699.01 in red tourist railway livery on the Taurach Railway in Mauterndorf
Tank loco 699.103 at Aschach an der Steyr station on the Steyr Valley Railway

The German narrow gauge steam locomotives of military field railway (Heeresfeldbahn) class HF 160 D were 0-8-0 tender locomotives developed for wartime service during the Second World War. The engines were also classified as Kriegsdampflokomotive 11 (wartime steam locomotive 11) or KDL 11. After the war the locomotives were put to use for civilian purposes.

HF 160 D in Austria

In the Austrian Federal Railway (ÖBB), the locomotives were grouped into Class 699. Class 699.1 was a rebuild of the engines into tank locomotives. Class 699 engines could be encountered on several ÖBB narrow gauge railways: the Bregenzerwald Railway, the Pinzgau Railway, the Waldviertel Narrow Gauge Railway, the Vellach Valley Railway and the Steyr Valley Railway. Six engines had been retired by 1973, number 699.103 belonged to the operating fleet of the Steyrtalbahn until its withdrawal in 1982.

Post 1945

  • Société Franco-Belge 2817/1944: HF2817 → ÖBB699.101 → Gurk Valley Railway699.101, operational
  • Société Franco-Belge 2818/1944: HF2818 → ÖBB699.01 → Club 760699.01, working, in use on the Taurachbahn
  • Société Franco-Belge 2819/1944: HF2819 → ÖBB699.102
  • Société Franco-Belge 2821/1944: HF2821 → ÖBB699.103
  • Société Franco-Belge 2822/1944: HF2822 → ÖBB699.02 →? → Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin, not working
  • Société Franco-Belge 2836/1945:? → CFCDNo.10, working, Chemin de fer Froissy-Dompierre (APPEVA), France
  • Société Franco-Belge 2843/1945:? → AMTP Nr. 4–12, converted to 600mm(1ft11+5⁄8in) rail gauge, working, Pithiviers, France;
  • Société Franco-Belge 2844/1945:? → No. unknown, converted to 600mm rail gauge, not working, Bligny sur Ouches, France, 2008-10-31 at theWayback Machine
  • Société Franco-Belge 2845/1945:? → Le Petit Train de la Vallee de la Dollar (1,435mm(4ft8+1⁄2in)), France (loco converted to standard gauge)
  • Société Franco-Belge 2855/1944: HF2855 → SKGLB19 –without tender→ STLB699.01 → W&LLRNo.10Sir Drefaldwyn, Powys, Wales, Great Britain
  • Société Franco-Belge 2856/1944: HF2856 → ÖBB699.03
  • Société Franco-Belge 2857/1944: HF2857 → ÖBB699.104

See also

  • Krobot; Slezak; Sternhart (1991). Schmalspurig durch Österreich. Vol.4. Verlag Slezak. ISBN3-85416-095-X.
  • Slezak; Sternhar (1986). Renaissance der Schmalspurbahn in Österreich. Verlag Slezak. ISBN3-85416-097-6.
  • Strässle (1997). Schmalspurbahn-Aktivitäten in Österreich. Verlag Slezak. ISBN3-85416-184-0.
  • Zoubek, Dieter (2004). Erhaltene Dampflokomotiven in und aus Österreich. Eigenverlag. ISBN3-200-00174-7.
  • Fritz, Herbert (1986). "KDL 11 - Kriegsdampflokomotive 11 - Von der Heeresfeldbahn zur ÖBB-Reihe 699". Club 760. Eigenverlag.