The Lokomotivbau Hohenzollern (Hohenzollern Locomotive Works) was a German locomotive

Locomotive

A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th...

 manufacturer during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

The Hohenzollern works was a manufacturer of standard gauge

Standard gauge

The standard gauge is a widely-used track gauge . Approximately 60% of the world's existing railway lines are built to this gauge...

 engines and about 400 fireless locomotives as well as industrial and private railway locomotives of various rail gauges.

The company was founded on 8 June 1872 in Grafenberg

Grafenberg

Grafenberg may mean:* Düsseldorf-Grafenberg, a borough of Düsseldorf* Ernst Gräfenberg, doctor known for developing the intrauterine device , and for his studies of the role of the woman's urethra in orgasm....

 near Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf

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. The firm produced around 4,600 locomotives. After the increasingly critical situation in the German locomotive building industry around 1929 the works was closed in November 1929. The Hohenzollern AG had hoped in vain for follow-on orders for the DRG Class 80

DRG Class 80

The Class 80 tank engines were German standard locomotives with the Deutsche Reichsbahn. They were intended to replace the aging, rickety state railway line engines performing shunting duties in their dotage at large stations.- History :...

 from the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft

Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft

The Deutsche Reichsbahn – was the name of the German national railway created from the railways of the individual states of the German Empire following the end of World War I....

 (DRG).

Locomotive number 80 030 in the Bochum-Dahlhausen Railway Museum was one of the last that had been built by the Lokomotivbau Hohenzollern and is preserved today in photograph-grey livery. The last locomotives had left the factory in September 1929; it was then immediately torn down.

External links

• Hohenzollern AG at www.lokhersteller.de
• There is a relevant English-language forum at Railways of Germany