FS Class 103

FS Class 103 was a class of 2-2-2 steam locomotives of the Italian State Railways, originally built for the Strade Ferrate dello Stato Piemontese. Fifteen were built in Britain between 1853 and 1855 by Sharp, Stewart and Company and numbered 34 to 38 and 80 to 89, and the railway used them to haul fast trains. They passed in 1865 to the Società per le strade ferrate dell'Alta Italia, which numbered them 91 to 105 and bought five more in 1864, then in 1885 to the Rete Mediterranea, and in 1905 only five survived to be taken over by the Ferrovie dello Stato as Class 103. The design was typically British with outside frames and inside cylinders, and the large driving wheels allowed 80 km/h. All were scrapped by 1910.