The Manchukuo National Railway Tehosa class
steam locomotives were a class of
4-6-0 passenger steam locomotives operated by the
Manchukuo National Railway. Originally built for the
South Manchuria Railway (Mantetsu), they later transferred to the MNR. The "Teho" name came from the
American naming system for steam locomotives, under which locomotives with 4-6-0 wheel arrangement were called "Ten-Wheeler".
History
Together with the
Sorisa class, these five passenger locomotives built by
Beyer, Peacock & Company in 1912 were the first locomotives Mantetsu ordered from England. Designated class F2, in 1920 they were reclassified Tehosa (テホサ) class, and between then and 1926 they were rebuilt with
superheaters. They were used on ordinary passenger trains on both the main line and the
Anfeng Line. In 1927 four of the five were loaned to the
Sitao Railway, but after the
Mukden Incident in 1931, all five were leased to the
Fengshan Railway. After the nationalisation of the Fengshan Railway and other privately held railway companies to create the
Manchukuo National Railway in 1933, they were taken over by the Manchukuo National, where they were designated Tehoko (テホコ) class. Under the new
unified classification system introduced in 1938, the class was returned to its earlier Tehosa classification.
Owner
Class & numbers (1912–1920)
Class & numbers (1920–1933)
Class & numbers (1933–1938)
Class & numbers (1938–1945)
Notes
Mantetsu
F2 700–F2 704
テホサ700–テホサ704
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Manchukuo National
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テホコ5700–テホコ5704
テホサ501–テホサ505
Transferred from Mantetsu in 1933
Postwar
At the end of the
Second Sino-Japanese War, three were assigned to the Fengtian Railway Bureau and two to the
Qiqihar bureau. They were taken over by the Republic of China Railway in 1945, but their subsequent fate is unknown.
