Austerity 0-6-0ST or simply Austerity is a British shunting tank engine created by the Hunslet Engine Company in 1943 during the Second World War . The most common British shunting locomotive of that time was produced for 2 decades until 1964 . The name 0-6-0ST is given by the β Whit notation β and is deciphered as follows: 0-6-0 - with 6 driving wheels , without runner and support wheels ; T - tank engine; S - with a saddle-shaped water tank (located on the steam boiler as a saddle on a horse).
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| Production | |
| Country of construction |  Great Britain |
| Factory | Hunslet Engine Company , Andrew Barclay Sons & Co. (15), WG Bagnall (52), Hudswell Clarke (50), Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns (90), Vulcan Foundry (50) |
| Years of construction | 1943 - 1964 |
| Total built | 485 |
| Technical details | |
| Axial formula | 0-3-0 |
| Steam train length | 9245 mm |
| Diameter of driving wheels | 1295.4 mm |
| Track width | 1435 mm |
| The operating weight of the engine | 49 t |
| Traction force | 106.18 kN |
| Steam pressure in the boiler | 11.7 kg / cmΒ² |
| Complete evaporative heating surface of the boiler | 89.3 mΒ² |
| The number of smoke pipes | 181 |
| Grate area | 1.6 mΒ² |
| Bore | 457.2 mm |
| Piston stroke | 660.4 mm |
| Water Tank Capacity | 5.5 m 3 |
| Fuel supply | 2.3 t |
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| A country | Great Britain  The Netherlands  France |
The prototype of the locomotive was the Fowler 3F shunting locomotive, which was produced in 1920-1930. in 6 English factories, but which was somewhat outdated by the beginning of World War II. Although Austerity was produced by only one plant - the Hunslet Engine Company - nevertheless, by 1947, 337 locomotives were already produced, of which 90 were transferred to the British Army, 75 were sold to the LNER road, where they received the designation J94, and 38 were sold to Holland. from where some of them afterwards fell on the railways of France. In addition, even during the war years, after the Allies landed in Normandy , some of the locomotives ended up in North Africa.
