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The Hr1 class (original classification P1) was the largest passenger express steam locomotive built in Finland. Twenty-two were built between the years 1937–1957. They were numbered 1000–1021.
In the 1930s, there was a need for faster and heavier express trains in Finland, and the Hv1–Hv3 classes were not powerful enough to fill the need. Lokomo Oy in Tampere built first two prototypes, and after successful trials 20 more were built.
Most of the locomotives were fitted with Wagner-type smoke deflectors, but the last two, which were equipped with roller bearings, had Witte-type deflectors.
The class's nickname was "Ukko-Pekka", meaning approximately "(respected) Grandpa Pekka", after the President of Finland Pehr Evind Svinhufvud.
The Hr1 was built for coal firing, but during the coal shortage after the war in 1945, birch wood was used as fuel. Larger chimneys needed for extinguishing wood sparks were temporarily fitted.
The Hr1s were the most important express steam locomotive and could justifiably be called the "flagships" of VR until 1963, when diesel locomotives started to replace steam. Their use ended officially in 1971, but two Hr1s equipped with roller bearings were brought back to use for a short time in the spring of 1974. One engine, 1005, was a participant in the worst peacetime railroad accident in Finland, the Kuurila accident, in 1957. The engine is preserved at Haapamäki.
Hr1's sister locomotive was the Tr1 class, otherwise similar, but with 2-8-2 wheel arrangement and smaller diameter drivers for freight train use.




Preservation


The following are preserved:

1000 Haapamäki
1001 Hyvinkää
1002–1005 Haapamäki, 1003 sectioned to show the inside of a steam locomotive
1008 Acton, Suffolk, England
1010 Haapamäki
1011 Otanmäki
1012 Oulainen
1014 Haapamäki
1016 named "Lady Patricia" on a Private Railway near Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom
1019, 1020 Haapamäki
1021 Riihimäki




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See also


Finnish Railway Museum
VR Group
List of Finnish locomotives
List of railway museums Worldwide
Heritage railways
List of heritage railways
Restored trains
Jokioinen Museum Railway
History of rail transport in Finland
VR Class Pr1
VR Class Tk3
VR Class Hr11
Ukko-Pekka




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External links


Media related to VR Class Hr1 at Wikimedia Commons
1016 "Lady Patricia" on her test run 28 June 2013

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• VR Class Hr1
• VR Class Vr1
• VR Class Tk3
• VR Class Tr1
• HR1
• VR Class Hv1
• VR Class Vr3
• VR Group
• VR Class Vk4
• VR Class Pr2